ATLANTA — Kirby Smart deftly parries all attempts to get him to talk about the big picture for Georgia football. Smart knows he can’t prevent his players from hearing the hype even if he wanted to, but he refuses to add to the noise. If it’s not about one game at a time for Smart, that’s only because it’s about one play at a time.
“It’s not what you want me to say, not what you want to write, but it’s true,” Smart said.
Smart will get plenty of reps with clichés over the next three weeks. The only things that can stop the Bulldogs from repeating as national champions are bad injury luck or Ohio State’s Buckeyes. And that presumes that Georgia would face the Buckeyes in the College Football Playoff. If Ohio State isn’t in the field, then only injuries to key players would stop the Bulldogs from repeating as national champions.
