Nov. 15—FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — Hey now, hey now, don't dream it's over ...

Except it is. Definitively.

(Any Crowded House fans in here?)

Look, South Carolina's College Football Playoff hopes were always going to depend on winning out. Top-ranked Georgia, 14 shades of ticked off since losing to Auburn at home three weeks ago, was always going to be next to impossible to beat.

But it was there. It was so, so there. I, too, had the faraway look in my eye of what it would be like to cover a team with a real shot at winning a national championship, as slim as the chance was.

It crashed. Resoundingly. I have no idea what it felt like in 1984 because I…

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