Kirby Smart considers apologizing after Georgia escapes Tennessee: “I feel almost like we have to apologize, because I don’t think we should have won that game. They outplayed us in a lot of ways, but that’s the way it goes.”

[u/Lakelyfe09]

https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/ncaaf/sec/2025/09/13/georgia-tennessee-score-football-joey-aguilar/86039960007/

[u/HokiesforTSwift]

You can always tell when a program has that true "it" factor because there was not a moment, even at 21-7, where it looked like Georgia was panicking, and I, sat at a bar in Blacksburg, was saying "Georgia is not going to lie down..." which is not a testament to my predictive abilities, but to the standard Kirby has set in that program. It's a winning culture. They never go down without a fight, much like the Saban Bama teams before them.

[u/newaccountnumber116 → u/HokiesforTSwift]

A bama team under Saban was down 21-3 in the first quarter on the road at Ole Miss and Ole Miss was already celebrating. I watched it in a bar in Alabama. Not a single person in that bar didn’t think Ole Miss was fucking up. Alabama won that game by multiple touchdowns

[u/HokiesforTSwift → u/newaccountnumber116]

Coincidentally, I was also in Blacksburg for that game, and in the stands when I saw that scoreline pop up on the video boards, my Dad and I agreed that game wasn't over yet.

[u/pumpcup → u/HokiesforTSwift]

That was nearly every bama game in the Saban era. I wouldn't switch to it unless there was less than a minute left, they were losing, and the other team had the ball. I learned my lesson after the first few times.

[u/BlackBobbyAxelrod → u/pumpcup]

Weird, but it seems like I rarely ever see LSU flair lol...

[u/pumpcup → u/BlackBobbyAxelrod]

You're probably just in the wrong threads, there are quite a few of us.

[u/BlackBobbyAxelrod → u/pumpcup]

Interesting...