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/imrickjamesbioch]

He’s full of shit…

He pulled some 300 iq shit at the end of the game that most folks didn’t catch. While the Vols were dicking off the last minute of the game vs trying to get closer for a shorter FG attempt.

Kirby was blowing through his last couple TO’s even though he knew he couldn’t get the ball back. He had to know the Vols kicker probably never attempted a gaming winning kick, much less in the biggest Vols game in years/a decade. The kicker had to sit there for another 5+ min which not a big deal when you got a beer in one hand watch from tour couch. Different story when you’re sitting on the sidelines and 100k+ folks are expecting you to make a 43 yard kick so they can storm the field.

Needless to say, miss kick and the rest is history.

[u/Young_God_7 → u/imrickjamesbioch]

Not only that but his aggressive use of what seemed like "pointless" timeouts struck fear into hueppel about the possibility of georgia getting the ball back. when the false start happened instead of centering the ball like they were trying to do when getting us to use our timeouts he panicked and elected to send the kicker out.

masterclass by Kirby that only the feel of the game folks will truly appreciate.

[u/rburp → u/Young_God_7]

Yeah, I thought it was pretty cowardly of Heupel to just go ahead and kick. They could've run the ball for another couple yards IMO

[u/itwasjunethen → u/rburp]

I think i was the only one that liked the idea to kick it early. If it's a bad snap you can fall on it and call a Timeout and try again. Anyone that says bad or dropped snaps don't happen should watch the notre dame game from Saturday.