Georgia vs. Alabama: Kirby Smart’s SEC Championship Stance

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00:00Let's get right down to the business here.

00:02Georgia and Alabama are going to play.

00:04Before I let you answer, let's hear from Kirby Smart right now

00:07about being conservative in the playoffs.

00:10Kirby, given that injury risk that goes along with the SEC championship,

00:14what's better for your titties to be farther next week

00:17or to go straight into the sea?

00:19If you worry about injury risk, we won't practice next week.

00:23So, like, you live your life scared of injuries, you know what you get?

00:26A very scared team.

00:30And I don't, you know, I mean, yeah,

00:32there's also an opportunity to win an SEC championship.

00:34Does that matter?

00:35Does anybody care about that anymore?

00:37I mean, I grew up thinking that was the greatest game in the world.

00:40And I just differed from everybody else.

00:43Yeah, we lost guys today to injury.

00:45We're going to lose guys in practice to injury.

00:47But that's next man up.

00:49Like, that's what's wrong with this whole thing now.

00:52It's like, well, what if you get hurt?

00:53What if you do this?

00:54What if you do that?

00:55I mean, it's football.

00:56It's all part of it.

00:57Coach, taking it easy in the SEC championship game.

01:02What?

01:02Come on now.

01:05College football will never be quite like the NFL because of conference championships.

01:10Now, Kirby Smart has not been successful against Alabama.

01:130-2 against Kalen DeBoard.

01:15This is huge to him.

01:16This is personal to him.

01:18And it is very big.

01:19He played at Georgia when I was a head coach at Auburn.

01:21He was in the defensive backfield playing against me.

01:23It means a lot.

01:25It's a huge game.

01:26And it will always be big, especially in the South, that conference championship.

01:32Coach, how much do you look at that game, that first game between those two teams?

01:38Is there anything to take?

01:39It feels like it was a million miles, you know, years ago here.

01:43It felt like Georgia got better as the game went on.

01:46So, and what kind of adjustments do the coaches make here, if any?

01:51Well, Georgia has had a problem all year, and especially against Alabama, falling behind

01:57in the first half and then spending the entire game catching up.

02:00Georgia has got to stay even.

02:02I don't care if they're losing by seven and a half, but stay even, keep pounding the football,

02:06play good defense, because I think they'll overwhelm Alabama in the second half.

02:10That's been their MO the whole year.

02:12They've just got to make sure they don't fall behind, because Alabama is very talented.

02:17Their quarterback is a winner.

02:18They've got some big players, people on offense.

02:22And so, Georgia, if they'll just stay close, I think they win it like they've done all year.

02:26And let me say this.

02:28When you play twice in one year in college football and you lose the first time, you've

02:32got a good chance of winning the second time.

02:33It always happens.

02:35I'm going to go back to Florida State.

02:36My dad, in 96, played Florida during the regular season, beat them 24-21.

02:41They met up again in the national championship.

02:43He lost 52-20 in the championship.

02:48Georgia will find a way to win this game.

02:50Coach, let me ask you a question on this, too.

02:52We understand if Alabama wins, of course they're in.

02:54Alabama loses.

02:56Is there a chance that they could be left out of the college football playoff?

03:00I think there's going to be some serious questions that have to be answered.

03:03Let's go a little bit further.

03:04What if Duke wins, and now you've got to find a way to fit somebody in, another G5 team, possibly?

03:11Now, if you have no ACC teams, they've got to find a way to get Miami in.

03:15They've got to find a way to get an ACC team where it blows up this whole thing, because

03:20that's a lot of investment by the ACC in that they get a team in there.

03:25So there's a lot to happen.

03:27But I do think if Alabama loses, there is a question, not that they don't deserve to

03:31be in, because you shouldn't play a conference championship and fall out.

03:35But that committee has got to look at how they treat the ACC if Duke blows it up a little

03:39bit.

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