The 2022 college football season has carried a theme of tying together the familiar with the new, binding history with an eye on the future as we move through a period of transition in the sport. The end of 2021 saw a wild coaching carousel reset the clock at several blue-blood programs, conference realignment got crazy again in the summer, and the College Football Playoff saw its expansion efforts stalled, resumed and eventually finished by the time we got to the end of the calendar.  And while the Nick Saban vs. Jimbo Fisher spat in May — plus Bryan Harsin’s late-spring hot seat fiasco at Auburn — provided interesting conversation…