“I’m just so proud of these guys, they worked hard all year long for a chance to say they would have beaten any one of the teams who actually made the playoff, and now they can say, they would have been #1,” head coach Lane Kiffin said during the CFP post-game conference via Microsoft Teams video conference.

Ole Miss All-SEC quarterback Jaxson Dart would have thrown for 386 yards and 4 touchdowns against Ohio State or 291 yards, 3 touchdowns, and 1 interception against Notre Dame, who has a little tougher passing defense. He would have added 42 yards on the ground against Ohio State or 57 rushing yards and a score against Notre Dame.

The hypothetical national championship games conclude a four-game win-streak Ole Miss theoretically would have gone on to blaze a trail through the first-ever 12-team college football playoff which would have included victories over Texas, Boise State and Penn State.

A parade is planned for Saturday in Oxford, Mississippi followed by a hypothetical banner-hanging thereafter.

“You have two very different kinds of players here, one plays receiver and cornerback, the other is an every down running back,” said one Heisman voter on deep background via Zoom early Sunday morning. “So we had to ask ourselves, in what statistical category was there overlap? The answer was one: the pose.”

When reminded that Ashton Jeanty led the nation in virtually every rushing statistic, our source brushed it off.

“Yeah, but he was only posing after those trademark 70-yard touchdown runs. By the end of the season, Travis was doing the Heisman after first downs, PIs, he even did one after dropping a pass from Shedeur,” the voter continued. “It was really a masterclass in marketing. If you caught any portion of any one of Colorado’s games this year, you were bombarded by images of Hunter striking the pose. For us Heisman voters, by year’s end, that was difficult to ignore,” our source concluded.