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Kirby Smart offers lukewarm assessment of Georgia’s dominant win over Oregon
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Defending national champion Georgia absolutely throttled Oregon on Saturday in the Chick-fil-A Kickoff game, winning 49-3 in a matchup between two top-15 teams that offered no drama.
That the Bulldogs looked the part of a national championship contender isn’t really a surprise, but the dominance they displayed on Saturday impressed pretty much everyone, with the possible exception of Georgia coach Kirby Smart.
Directly after the game, Smart offered a lukewarm assessment of his team’s play.
“We still don’t know,” said Smart when asked about how good his team is. “We’ve never arrived. For our guys, it’s all about maintaining the same kind of composure and connection. I thought the players really came out aggressive, which was our goal in this game. More than anything, it’s about how you came out aggressive.”
Perhaps it was coach-speak, but Smart also offered only modest praise for a defense that despite replacing several of its top players from last year’s dominant unit looked awfully good on Saturday.
"Chris Wallace covers college football for Saturday Down South. He has covered college athletics for multiple newspapers and also worked previously for Rivals.com and GolfChannel.com."
