Bowl games over. College football over. All hail King Clemson.

But the analysis and commentary will never end. How many times between now and late August will somebody hosting a radio or TV program have to answer the question, “How do you think we’re going to do?”

I refer mainly to the SEC Network, which had me confused at first when it launched more than two years ago. Turning it on for the first time, why is Ole Miss’ basketball coach speaking, and why is there a soccer match being telecast? Oh wait, I see, it’s not the SEC football only Network. Variety, balance, that’s good. That’s what I try to get in local newspaper sports sections. Tried it for almost 25 years.

Now a couple of years ago, on a locally based radio program in middle Georgia, the host was fussed at by a caller because nothing was being said about UGA softball about to play in the Women’s College World Series.

The host’s reply was something like if he said he was only going to speak about college softball, he would lose the entire audience, they would turn over to the political talk programming.

I certainly don’t want to lose any readership, but I will announce that a future piece will be about the sport of basketball, what it means to me personally as my favorite and its potential to be a major story locally this year.

As for the rest of your reading enjoyment right now, a little more pigskin observation.

Doesn’t it seem strange that, in the Southeastern Conference, so far there were no end-of-season head coaching changes among the football programs? I use the qualifying term because, yes, LSU made a mid-season change by letting Les Miles go. LSU then retained interim coach Ed Orgeron full time.

There’s the possibility then that 11 out of 14 coaches in the conference will go into the fall on either a warm or burning-hot seat. Obviously the aforementioned Orgeron will get some leeway going into his first full season in Baton Rouge, and Nick Saban can decide when his term at Alabama is over (he may do that while the press rolls). No. 3 would be Jim McIlwain at Florida, who for two years took the Eastern Division seemingly by default.

Everyone else is on some kind of less that sturdy ground, no more so than Butch Jones at UT, Gus Malzahn at AU and Kevin Sumlin at A&M. All three of those teams started so great but inexplicably fizzled down the stretch (yes, so did Ole Miss after nearly beating Alabama and rolling over the Georgia Bulldogs).

Kirby Smart, he did win his first bowl game as UGA head coach, something Mark Richt did not do. But Richt did win the SEC title in year No. 2 with a group that was predominantly still his predecessor’s recruits.

There’s something unusual about the 2017 Georgia football schedule. Did you notice? Something that hasn’t been the case in 30 years. Yes, this is the start of the two-year deal with Notre Dame, the game at South Bend. It’s not the answer to the question, but part of it (last time the Bulldogs and Irish tangled was more than 30 years ago, the famous 1981 Sugar Bowl).

For the first time since 1987, when this writer was still in high school, Georgia’s first three games are all non-conference. It opens with Appalachian State, then the ND trip, and Samford. Normally, there’s Tennessee very early in the schedule, and then South Carolina was always near the top when it joined the league in 1992. Last year’s first three included one of the latest newcomers, Missouri.

South Carolina was an October game in 2016, and this fall it’s going to be in November, after the game with Florida. That’s always been a contention of mine, not only not having a conference game so early, but a division game that could make or break finishing in first place.

The first SEC game for Georgia is with the rotational Western Division foe, Mississippi State. It’s eight conference games in a row before revenge time arrives against those pesky Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets.

Running back Nick Chubb will enter the season No. 2 on Georgia’s all-time rushing list having surpassed Todd Gurley at the Liberty Bowl. He would need an historic season, however, to pass someone named Hershel Walker for No. 1. Walker’s magic number is 5,259 while Chubb sits at 3,424, a difference of 1,835. That would be the second-best season ever at UGA as Walker hit an SEC record at the time of 1,891.

Remember, Walker did his in only three years, then Donald Trump lured him away to the USFL as the first underclassman ever to leave college football early. Think about how close Chubb would be if not for the devastating injury against Tennessee in 2015.

But even a 100 percent healthy Chubb isn’t likely to get close to 1,800 yards (he had 1,130 this past season) for one big reason: Sony Michel. He had 840 yards on the ground, is returning along with Chubb, and as far as I’m concerned that’s a great thing. Why not put them both in for a split-back formation and really scare some coordinators?

Walker got all of his numbers for two reasons: his own greatness at the position, plus at that time Georgia wasn’t concerned satisfying anyone’s need for high passing yards. Walker has the top four games in total carries in school history (and the most ever by an SEC back with 47 in 1981). He ran more than 300 times in two different seasons and 994 in his career.

Need more? Well, Walker averaged 30 carries a game. Gurley’s average: 17.