ATHENS, Ga. — Kirby Smart may enjoy the College Football Playoff, but it’s safe
to say he isn’t a fan of the College Football Playoff committee. On two separate occasions after Saturday’s
crucial 31-17 victory over Tennessee, Smart took a moment to castigate the committee’s decisionmaking and question its football acumen.
“I don’t know what they’re looking for. I really don’t,” said Smart, whose team was ranked 12th but effectively locked
out of the playoffs after last week’s loss to Ole Miss. “I wish they could really define the criteria. I wish they could do the eyeball test where they come down
here and look at the people we’re playing against and look at them.You can’t see that stuff on a TV.”
What the committee would have seen had they been at Sanford Stadium—and what 93,033 in the stands saw live—was
a Georgia team that’s capable of healing itself on the fly, both in the middle of the
season and in the middle of a game. If Wolverine wasn’t already aligned with another university, the Dawgs could claim him as an avatar.
