After a 15-0 season and a second-straight national title where they gave several players curtain calls in the National Championship Game, there’s no doubt the Georgia Bulldogs were the best team in college football this year. Save for a playoff scare from Ohio State, the Bulldogs were largely unchallenged en route to their 65-7 romp over the TCU Horned Frogs on Monday night.
That made one part of Georgia head coach Kirby Smart’s postgame victory interview a bit peculiar. While waxing poetic about what his talented team accomplished, Smart used the “everyone doubted us” cliche to describe his players’ journey back to the pinnacle of college football.
