By a final margin of 3,016 votes to 2,364, the winner of the inaugural Jim Harbaugh GIF Tournament is...
...the juggernaut known as Spring Game Grin, which cruised through the Final Four after the titanic grin-off with Harbaugh As Grinch. I've already described these GIFs several times over, but I think Louisville Wolverine best captured why this one won out.
It isn't solely the sentimentality of SGG that makes it a winner, thought that is a compelling aspect of it. It is the latent potential that it holds for everything that would eventually come after it.
All the other gifs exist there. It is the spring event from which the river of entertaining moments flow.
The tourney will return next spring with an entirely new field. Harbaugh is already off to a tremendous start on this year's crop.
