College football handed Susan Bryerton her worst result and her finest hour, in that order. Alabama's 45 led a regular-season card with five empty shares to 224th. Then she held the Hoosier chalk through the Playoff: 104.1 collected, 249.5 points and a share of 2nd out of 251.
That whiplash ran through the whole year. The NFL bracket went cold at 181st while the NBA win totals hummed at 29th. NFL Survivor came in 32nd, and her World Cup pool rode Mexico's 26 to 129 pool points and a 22nd.
Golf at 101st could not spoil a 17-place closing gain. Bryerton's 1664 total ranked 18th, a season that refused, on principle, to find a middle gear.