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Kirby Paul Smart [2] (born December 23, 1975) is an American football coach and former player. He is the current head football coach at the University of Georgia , his alma mater. As head coach, he led the Bulldogs to back-to-back national championships in 2021 and 2022 .
Kirby Smart is the current head coach of the bulldogs. The team has played more than 1,300 games over 132 seasons of Georgia football. [ 2 ] Six coaches have led the Bulldogs to postseason bowl games : Wally Butts , Vince Dooley , Ray Goff , Jim Donnan , Mark Richt , and Kirby Smart . [ 2 ]
The team was led by ninth-year head coach Kirby Smart, who notched his 100th win as head coach during the season. The Bulldogs went 11–3 and won the SEC Championship Game against Texas in overtime. After the end of the season with Georgia's loss to Notre Dame at the Sugar Bowl, Smart called the season "the toughest year of my tenure. Easily ...
Kirby Smart: Sugar Bowl † Texas: L 21–28 2019: Kirby Smart: Sugar Bowl † Baylor: W 26–14 2020: Kirby Smart: Peach Bowl † Cincinnati: W 24–21 2021: Kirby Smart: Orange Bowl (CFP Semifinal) † Michigan: W 34–11 2021: Kirby Smart: CFP National Championship: Alabama: W 33–18 2022: Kirby Smart: Peach Bowl (CFP Semifinal) † Ohio ...
The team was led by Kirby Smart in his eighth year as Georgia's head coach. The Bulldogs entered this season as the two-time defending consensus national champions. This was also the final year for the East division, as Texas and Oklahoma would join the SEC in 2024. [1]
Richt was replaced with former Georgia football player Kirby Smart, who, at the time, was Alabama's defensive coordinator. Smart played for the Bulldogs from 1995 to 1998 for coaches Ray Goff and Jim Donnan and was defensive coordinator at Alabama from 2008 to 2015 under head coach Nick Saban.
In his postgame news conference, Georgia head coach Kirby Smart complained that he had been told by officials in the SEC that an 11-man substitution, such as the one Notre Dame performed, was illegal.
AUSTIN, Texas — Kirby Smart played the doubter card here Saturday night. He didn’t want to do it. In fact, during his news conference after No. 5 Georgia took down No. 1 Texas, 30-15, Smart ...