It’s much easier to build a narrative in college football than it is to dispel one. As the major sport with the smallest sample size of games, college football lends itself well to snap judgments from fickle media and fans. There are only so many snaps to watch; only so many games to play.
For teams at the top of the sport, every loss is a referendum, just as every mistake is a mark against the player who made it. There’s no room for patience or pragmatism because those who wait too long to for…