Kevin Jennings's Homecoming

Kevin Jennings is spending Thanksgiving at his alma mater, South Oak Cliff High School, doing a different type of pass than the one that’s made him the most famous collegiate athlete in Dallas. 

He and his SMU teammates are handing off turkeys to 1,000 people. The families form a car line backed up a mile down the road to I-35, inching closer to a happier Thanksgiving provided by young men they’ll soon watch on TV in the ACC championship game. And the more cars the players interact with the more they realize why they aren’t practicing on the Wednesday of Game Week, that whether 13 suits in a boardroom in Grapevine, Texas, deem them worthy of the College Football Playoff isn’t what really matters.