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Georgia-Alabama 2022 CFP National Championship with Jeremiah Johnson
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Jeremiah Johnson (Infinite Scroll) and host Thomas Emerick time travel to an inflection point for both college football and terminally online posting. January 2022. They take an IndyGo bus from their La Quinta on the edge of downtown Indianapolis to guide the listener through the 2022 College Football Playoff National Championship between the Georgia Bulldogs and Alabama Crimson Tide. Not much luck for millennial UGA fans like Jeremiah to this date, but we’ll see how it goes for these SEC teams battling in Big 10 country for the 2021-2022 season finale.
Jeremiah Johnson is creator of the Infinite Scroll Substack newsletter on the politics and dynamics of the social internet, along with the Center for New Liberalism and corresponding show The New Liberal Podcast. Folks may have come across his annual worst tweets bracket that comes out every December.
Thomas Emerick is the showrunner and host of Remember That Game.
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These topics are weaved into the background and moments from the game, culminating with the Keelee Ringo pick six. Jeremiah’s reaction at home may have mirrored Kirby Smart’s on the sideline for that long run with the sudden escort by an elite Georgia defense.
- Shaping of Jeremiah’s University of Georgia fandom. Why UGA over Gators, Bama, Clemson, even Georgia Tech better in the ‘90s
- Bulldogs hired Kirby Smart but were still struggling to get over the hump against old boss Nick Saban
- Beating Michigan in semis, were you a snob for SEC football at this point? Big 10 skeptic? Changing balance of power in recent years.
- The trending topics on Jan. 10, 2022
- In the annual worst tweets bracket, Jeremiah illuminates the four most prevalent categories of brain rot in the year that was, and people vote on those brackets as they funnel to a Final Four.
- Was 2021-2022 the peak of social media brain poisoning, or how close was it to the peak.
- And is terminally online posting on the up or downward trajectory here in 2026?
- In some way could the trials and travails of Will Stancil or the latest top-ranked Chad heal America’s brain online?
- Philly pipeline converting UGA fans to Eagles backers?
- Discussed Jalen Carter, Jordan Davis, Nakobe Dean, Nolan Smith, and Keelee Ringo
- In late 2021/early 2022 Zuck was pumping money into the Metaverse, how did Roblox stuff him in the locker? And did the failure of the Metaverse seem destined to you at the time?
- Georgia offensive coordinator in 2021-2022 turned Browns head coach in 2026 Todd Monken. He was absolutely cooking.
- Stacked Georgia roster and expectations vs. outcome in pros
- WR: Adonai Mitchell, Jermaine Burton, George Pickens, and Ladd McConkey
- QB: Stetson Bennett sticking in the league, Carson Beck’s Georgia exit
- TE: Brock Bowers and Darnell Washington
- RB: Zamir White and James Cook