NEW ORLEANS — He came, he sat, he talked about his cows.
Here’s what we learned from Gunner Stockton in his hour of time with media at the Sugar Bowl on Monday:
Georgia’s new starting quarterback asked for cows as a Christmas present when he was a sophomore at Rabun County High in northeast Georgia. He got three or four, and he now has 14.
“My family had ’em when I was really young, and I just really enjoy ’em,” Stockton said.
It was a story he told repeatedly for the waves of writers and TV reporters eager for a sound bite from the Bulldogs’ unlikely starting quarterback in Wednesday’s College Football Playoff quarterfinal (also known as the Sugar Bowl) against Notre Dame.