. . . and another to a No. 3 final ranking.

I’ll grant that he’s the best coach never to have won a national championship, but any conscientious observer would have a hard time distinguishing between Urban Meyer’s 2006 Gators and Mark Richt’s 2002 Bulldogs. One of them just happened to be lucky enough to be 12-1 heading into the bowl games in a year in which only one other major conference team had gone undefeated.