Now that the panic alert has subsided – the one sounded when Jake Fromm broke his non-throwing hand, a “small fracture” Georgia head coach Kirby Smart called “insignificant” – I will get to more talk about Bulldog football for 2018 a little on down the page.

But first, it was just over a week ago that Oregon State came back from losing Game 1 and defeated Arkansas two straight to win the College World Series, or the NCAA Division I national championship for college baseball. All those who think a few days before Independence Day is way too late in the year to be playing major college sports, you are probably a fan of neither the Beavers nor the Razorbacks. Those people showed up big in Omaha, and they were vocal in support of their schools.

Funny how baseball is the only college sport where players get drafted while their season is ongoing, provided those players are on teams that made NCAA Regionals. Also, NCAA spring playoffs that go deep into May and creep into June feature a handful of student-athletes who already graduated but still have that unfinished business.

For the entire 2017-18 school year, some unscientific research uncovered an interesting fact. Do you know which Southeastern Conference school won the most team NCAA championships this year? Why, that would be the University of Georgia.

It was one of those final events that took place in June where the Bulldog men’s track and field team won the outdoor national title. Must admit, when the announcement was made it was then that I learned about Georgia’s women’s track and field team claiming the indoor NCAA championship. This occurred in March with the meet hosted by Texas A&M. Most of, if not all, of the student-athletes on a college track and field team are a part of both the winter indoor and the spring outdoor seasons.

Sad thing is, this is one of those college sports that’s not going to draw a major fan following wherever it goes. That outdoor championship meet took place in Oregon, hosted by the Ducks. As stated before, the fans were in attendance filling up the stadium in Omaha for the baseball tournament, and there was a crowd in Oklahoma City a few weeks earlier for the Women’s College World Series. That’s where Florida State won its first national title in softball.

UGA has also won numerous NCAA titles in other sports that carry the label ‘non-revenue,’ the kind that don’t attract a slew of spectators, especially to a national final that’s several states away. One school year, 1998-99, Georgia won four championships, and Jack Davis, the famed artist of Bulldog pictures who has since passed away, did a magazine cover honoring all of those accomplishments. The four sports were gymnastics, golf, tennis and swimming/diving.

But that same year, Tennessee won “the important one.” It may have been the only banner the Volunteers claimed in that span, but it was “the important one.” This was when Tee Martin, Phillip Fulmer and the rest defeated Florida State in the first BCS National Championship football game.

When I brought up all of those Georgia accolades for that year in conversation, I was reminded that Tennessee won “the important one.”

So when I say Georgia, for 2017-18, has the most NCAA team titles of any SEC school, the counter would be that “we lost the important one.” The Alabama Crimson Tide only has the one championship, but it is “the important one.” Should I then say that winning one title football game is equivalent to how many other titles a school could win? Two? Five? 10?

Belated congratulations to the Florida Gators, for you won the men’s indoor track and field championship. That’s in case some of your fans missed that memo while keeping up with all of Dan Mullen’s coaching staff moves.

There is one college out there that won four NCAA titles over the past year. That would be the Stanford Cardinal, and three of those were by women’s teams: soccer, tennis and swimming/diving. Some other Power 5 Division I schools not mentioned yet that got a piece of championship glory were Texas, Penn State, Nebraska, Notre Dame, Wake Forest, Oklahoma State, Arizona and Southern California.

It was the last school listed, USC, that won the 1,600-meter relay – the last event – to beat Georgia’s recently crowned indoor champions by one point in the women’s track and field outdoor meet three months later. First it was that touchdown pass in overtime, then this. But I know which one causes the Bulldog Nation any sleepless nights.

I have a good feeling that Fromm will heal from this hand injury – the guy sure loves his boating and fishing trips, which reports state is how this happened – in time for the big SEC opener at South Carolina. Yes, I know it’s not the opening game, but it’s the one we’re most concerned about with what strides Will Muschamp could be making with the Gamecocks and the quality skill players who are recovering from their own injuries.

The real first game is against Austin Peay. After Carolina, it’s the one Colquitt County as a whole will be interested in, the Middle Tennessee game with their ex-Packer Ty Lee.

What I want to know is, why are we Bulldogs not concerned about our second SEC tilt? It’s going to be Sept. 22 at Missouri, and while we may still have a hard time seeing Missouri as part of SEC territory, those Tigers did bite us in the back a couple of years in a row.

Two years ago, Jacob Eason threw a fourth-down TD pass at 1:29 to tie that game in Columbia, and our struggling field goal kicker at the time was able to punch through the PAT to win it.

Missouri may not be able to stop Georgia (53 put up on them last year at home), but stopping them is my concern. The experts on the networks say that it’s Mizzou – not Georgia, not Alabama, not Auburn – that has the league’s top quarterback.

Drew Lock goes into this season with seven career touchdown passes against UGA along with almost 800 passing yards. He has that “first QB taken in the Draft” projection on him, and while I’m not up on what defines a ‘trap game,’ this smells of one.