ATLANTA — Georgia football just won back-to-back national championships. That’s very hard to do. It seems a bit greedy already to be talking about going for three in a row. That’s probably why Kirby Smart was reluctant to do it while his players were still puffing on victory cigars.
Smart wants the Bulldogs to stay hungry. Speculating about a “three-peat” now risks making it seem inevitable before they’ve put in the work. That’s going to be a challenge for Smart. He won’t be able to shield the people in his program from the reasonable view that the Bulldogs have a good chance of becoming the first team to win three championships in a row in college football’s modern era.
Georgia’s reputation as a football power has grown to that point. The Bulldogs just captured the hardest back-to-back college titles in history. They are the only repeat champ that had to win four playoff games. They did it with style, too, by going 15-0 this season.
