As a five-star Atlanta high schooler, Newton drew a ton of interest. And after going JUCO, he had a whole new range of suitors. Using both lists of potential destinations from Sports, we came up with an alternate history for each.
If Mr. Relf ever reads this, I hope he knows I appreciate his contributions. With Relf, the Bulldogs were They won nine games for the first time in a decade, and two of their four losses were close. That leaves losses to Auburn and Arkansas.
Arkansas is, unsurprisingly, weirder. In our timeline, MSU scored 10 points in the last 10 minutes to tie, lost a fumble out of the end zone to start overtime, watched Arkansas miss a field goal, and lost anyway.
Newton against the Hogs that year? MSU is now in conference. Matt Stafford spends another two years as the starter, leaving little daylight for Newton playing time. Worse, there is little to suggest Newton is in the right place.
Georgia uses the same pro-style offense they used for years under Mark Richt, a scheme in which the quarterback rarely runs past the line of scrimmage by design. I had to look it up. Neither carried more than times in a season, with Shockley topping out at yards in Newton eclipsed that at Auburn in the fourth game of If Newton made it to without transferring, the competition would have been Joe Cox and Logan Gray.
