This is how the academic year ended Monday night for the only collection of institutions of higher learning worthy to be called a superconference, even in its current 14-member iteration. John Cohen picked up a familiar trophy, said a few kind words and handed the hardware to Jay Johnson while LSU fans partied like their school had just won a national championship in its signature sport for the first time in 14 years.

Which it had by capturing the College World Series for the seventh time overall, but check that. Tiger fans don’t need a reason to party and consume mass quantities of jello shots. They just need a place. Omaha — better known as Geauxmaha during the purple-and-gold takeover — was the place where it all went down.

In his role as chairman of the Division I Baseball Committee, Cohen, the former Kentucky and Mississippi State baseball coach and current Auburn athletics director, whose State team finished runner-up a decade ago in the College World Series, got to congratulate Johnson, the LSU coach. His Tigers earned the trophy by raking conference rival Florida in the decisive third game of the finals.

It doesn’t get any more SEC than that. Or this: For the fourth straight year in which each sport crowned a national champion, the baseball and football champions reside in the Southeastern Conference.

That is so Bo Jackson.

Perhaps it’s time to cut out the middlemen and move the College World Series to Hoover and the College Football National Championship Game to Atlanta on a permanent basis. Omaha’s great, especially if you love tradition and steak, but it’s a long way from Baton Rouge and Gainesville, as well as Oxford, Starkville and Nashville.