Rob Morse's season is what conviction looks like after the receipts arrive. Georgia for the College Football Playoff crown left him tied for 169th with 80. Chasing the Rams through the NFL bracket left him tied for 172nd with 76. Those were the two true burns.
Everywhere else, the portfolio was clean. The Hurricanes carried him to 275.5 and 22nd in the NHL Playoffs. Ole Miss's 75 anchored 23rd in NCAAF, champion Spain carried the World Cup card to 33rd, and Seattle's 51 powered baseball to 44th.
Add 48th in the NBA and Morse had five finishes inside the top fifty without a single top-ten result. More important, he never entered the bottom quarter, so the two bracket misses stayed bruises instead of becoming structural damage.
A 14-place closing rise left 1692 points and 16th. No contest supplied a headline win; the story was recurring evidence that Morse's next good read was already coming.