ATLANTA, Ga. — Minutes apart, Joe Burrow and Jalen Hurts sat in the same seat here Tuesday.
How fitting. Their paths to this place, the Peach Bowl, are similar in so many ways: two transfer quarterbacks who have captained their new team to the College Football Playoff (LSU and Oklahoma) after losing a starting competition with their old team (Ohio State and Alabama), separating from their former school so amicably that those fan bases still root for them.
It’s weird, somewhat unusual, but we all better get used to it. This is the way of the future, no better indicator of that than this year’s playoff quarterbacks, three of whom are transfers.