It’s been a long, oft-times foolish offseason.

Here are just a few of the things I’m overreacting to as we count down to the first Saturday Down South.

10. Quarterback competitions: Not sure I could have been any clearer when this silly talk started just before spring ball.

9. Four B1G teams in the Top 11: I’m so tired of pointing out the obvious flaws in this league and how its 9-game conference schedule prevents anybody from challenging its message.

Michigan and Ohio State ranked Nos. 2 and 3 nationally in scoring defense last year. Both gave up a season-high point total in their bowl game loss.

Ohio State didn’t score against Clemson. That’s the second consecutive year the B1G was shut out in a Playoff semifinal.

You would think that voters might, just might, raise an eyebrow to such bumbling and stumbling.

Nope. They raised their glass, again. Cheers to the most unstoppable PR machine in college football.

8. Kirk Herbstreit’s Playoff championship prediction: Ohio State over Alabama.

Shocking, right? Herbstreit had Ohio State at an unmovable No. 2 in last year’s final Playoff poll, even though his former team didn’t make the B1G Championship.

Eventually, he and all of the B1G athletic supporters will be right. Ohio State is good, no doubt. And when that happens, they’ll say they were right all along.

One thing: I hope he and they realize the Buckeyes will have to at least score in the semifinal this year.

7. Georgia: This hurts, because my mentor, Lewis Grizzard, a great American, might have been the proudest Bulldog of them all.

Georgia is built for a Playoff run. Every piece is there to win the East, challenge Alabama and make a Playoff push. Every piece but one: Until shown otherwise, I’ll continue to wonder whether Kirby Smart is.

Who was the last coach to win a national championship in his second year as a head coach? Not at that school … second year as a head coach, period. Bob Stoops did it at Oklahoma in 2000. Larry Coker won it all in his first year as a HC with Miami and was cheated out of a title in Year 2. Those two are clearly the exceptions.

6. An extension for Butch Jones? I heard this talk a lot this offseason. I’m on record as saying I think Tennessee will struggle to make a bowl game. I see 6-6, 7-5 more realistic than 9-3 and an extension.

But let’s just say the Vols do go 9-3 and Jones gets his extension. Is that really what you want? I ask because I am a firm believer that championship coaches manage egos and situations better than others.

You have to have 5-stars to win titles, but you better be able to manage all of the sideshow BS that comes with them. The Vols’ locker room was a mess last season, and a large part of that was because Jones couldn’t manage the Jalen Hurd situation.

I think Butch Jones would win 7-9 games at a lot of places, and that would be perfectly acceptable at a lot of places. I’m not sure he can win a national championship anywhere, though, and that’s a problem given Tennessee’s championship pedigree.

5. Nick Fitzgerald for Heisman: Fitzgerald is fantastic. His team is, um, not as fantastic.

Since 1970, just four quarterbacks have won the Heisman after losing three regular season games — and none lost more than three. Most analysts don’t see Mississippi State getting anywhere near a 9-3 regular season.

So, no, Fitzgerald will not win the Heisman, no matter how many Xbox highlight runs he provides. This has zero to do with Fitzgerald’s ability and everything to do with the Bulldogs’ and how voters vote.

4. One SEC team ranked in the Top 11? Sometimes I wonder what these people are watching.

But that’s the unfortunate power of a false narrative. They’re as impossible to stop as it is to score on Alabama.

3. Matt Canada: I’m probably way too excited to see LSU’s offense. I was in Indianapolis for seven years when Canada was at Indiana University, and then I was in Raleigh when he was the OC at N.C. State.

So I’ve seen the man work magic … with future accountants and insurance salesmen.

Canada did the unthinkable at IU: He made that offense watchable and occasionally exciting. At N.C. State, he helped Jacob Brissett go from unwanted at UF to NFL quarterback.

For a decade, Les Miles did less with more. Canada has never had athletes like the ones he has now. He doesn’t need a 5-star QB to put up 40 against a national champion defense, either, though look out when he finally gets one to build around.

2. The SEC has the best group of QBs in any Power 5: When was the last time we could have said that without laughing? We’ve hidden our eyes for much of the past three seasons, but no more.

In the past 10 seasons, the SEC produced five 3,000-yard passers just once — in 2013. There were several years in which just one QB topped 3,000 yards.

This year, there might be eight who top that mark.

1. The ACC is King: “Was” King, Jimbo. Emphasis on was.

Deshaun Watson is gone. Long live the King.

But repeating?

You know the last Power 5 conference not named the SEC to repeat as a sole national champion? It was the old Big 8, with Nebraska winning back-to-back crowns in 1994-95.

The SEC made repeating look easy, what with four teams combining to win seven consecutive championships.

But you’re not the SEC.