By: Kipp Branch

TheSouthernSportsEdition.com news services

2017 seems so long ago. The Georgia Bulldogs won the SEC Championship, Rose Bowl, and were a blown coverage away from winning the national championship.

At the time there was the walk-on QB that was giving Roquan Smith and company fits on the scout team all during that championship season. That QB was Stetson Bennett.

After a brief stint away from Athens, and a global pandemic the former walk-on led Georgia to a national title in 2021. He lit up an Alabama defense for fourteen points in the fourth quarter when the game was on the line.

Still during the lead up to the 2022 season there were doubters. The doubters said UGA won despite Bennett. They do not remember the 40-yard strike to AD Mitchell and the capping TD toss to Brock Bowers facing an Alabama blitz to end the 41-year championship drought.

Then something amazing happened and Stetson Bennett torched 11^th ranked Oregon for a career high 368 yards and a 49-3 curb stomping.

Then he has backed it up with great performances against Samford and South Carolina. Now Georgia is the top ranked team in the country, and you are hearing the impossible being said and that is STETSON FOR HEISMAN!

Wait one second Kipp what are you saying? I am saying Stetson for Heisman. Why not?

As of now Bennett sits high on the list of favorites. He is playing better than the media darlings that he trails in the current odds.

If the award were given today Stetson Bennett would be your 2022 Heisman winner based on performance, and if you base it on team accomplishments who is better than Georgia right now?

Brock Bowers is in the mix as well. Who throws Brock the football?

Bennett is a dual threat for the UGA offense this season. His grasp of the Todd Monken system makes the offense look unstoppable at times.

UGA scored in their first seven possessions against Oregon. Georgia put on an offensive clinic against South Carolina. UGA rolled up almost 550 yards of total offense against an SEC defense.

If you look at the UGA schedule from now until the Cocktail Party in Jacksonville, you see the likes of Kent State, Missouri, a down Auburn team, and Vanderbilt.

Bennett should put up some substantial numbers in those contests. UGA should enter the Florida game at 7-0.

Then you have Florida, Tennessee, Mississippi State, Kentucky, and Georgia Tech. If Georgia can run the table and go 12-0, then how can Stetson not be invited to New York for the Heisman ceremony?

If UGA was to be a 13-0 SEC Champion and Bennett has played as well as he has during the first three games of the season, then he will have earned the Heisman Trophy.

Folks this thing could happen because Stetson is the leader of a complete football team in Athens, Georgia.

This story has the makings of a Hollywood movie script. The Stetson Bennett story would be an impressive movie. I know about ten million fellow Georgians who would agree.

The season still must play itself out, but Stetson Bennett is already a Georgia Legend.

The only real question that remains is, which actor would portray Stetson Bennett in a Hollywood adapted movie in the next 5 years?

Move over Rudy the Stetson Bennett story will be coming to the theaters soon.