Field Street Forum

Georgia’s 2025 Senior Class is 49-5 overall. They have won a national title (2022) and two SEC crowns (2022, 2024) in their career. They aim to become the third straight class to register 50 wins, joining the 2023 group (50-4) and last year’s record-setting class (53-5).

The Bulldogs are 42-3 against non-conference teams in the Kirby Smart era. Two of those losses came in the Sugar Bowl while the only regular season defeat came to Tech in his first season in 2016.

The Bulldogs (10-1, 7-1 SEC) are a consensus No. 4 in the Associated Press, US LBM Coaches and FWAA-NFF top 25 polls. The latest CFP ranking will be out Tuesday. Georgia was No. 4 in all the polls and the CFP last week.

Georgia owns the best record in the FBS since 2021 at 63-6. This run includes back-to-back CFP national titles (2021-22) and two SEC titles (2022 & 2024).

Georgia and Ohio State are the only FBS schools to win 11+ games in each of the past four seasons.

Fourth-ranked Georgia (10-1, 7-1 SEC) concludes the regular season Friday in Atlanta against Tech (9-2) at sold out Mercedes-Benz Stadium for Tech’s home game. Last Saturday in Athens, the No. 4 Bulldogs dispatched Charlotte 35-3 while No. 16 Tech was upset 42-28 at home by Pittsburgh.

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ATHENS – Head coach Kirby Smart, inside linebacker Chris Cole and wide receiver London Humphreys met with the media Monday. They offered the following comments.

Head Coach Kirby Smart

Opening Statement
“All right, Georgia Tech week. A lot of respect for Brent [Key] and their program. He’s done a tremendous job there. They’re extremely physical. You can tell they’re modeled after what he believes in, which is running the ball and stopping the run. The quarterback is playing at an elite level. Just a lot of respect for the way they play the game. We’ve got a short week, so we’ve got a quick turn here to get ready for these guys and play in Mercedes Benz on Friday. And with that, I know you guys want to ask about Nyier [Daniels]. I have not had a chance to talk to him or his family, but obviously he’ll no longer be with us.”

On preparing for Georgia Tech’s offense…
“I wouldn’t say a sense of comfort. Nothing’s comfortable about defending an offense that can hurt you in so many ways. First of all, Buster [Faulkner] does an incredible job. He did here, too. He’s a really good football coach. He knows where things are, where all the nuggets are on defenses. He knows how to attack them. He knows the answers for things when you do them. At the end of the day, they got to block, we got to tackle, and somebody’s got to do it better. That’s a very tough thing when you play them, because they stretch you horizontally, they stretch you vertically, they stretch you with tempo, they stretch you with numbers counts because of their quarterback. Buster does an awesome job, and that’s continued this year. There’s no level of comfort dealing with it. It’s more of a ‘how do you inspire your players to play harder?'”

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