Adam WellsDecember 7, 2024
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Nick Saban understands a thing or 2 about stating a great deal of words without actually stating anything, so it wasn’t a surprise to hear him call out Kirby Smart and Steve Sarkisian for concealing their gameplans ahead of the SEC Championship Game.
After both coaches provided really unclear responses on ESPN’s College Gameday in action to Rece Davis’ concern about their technique to preparing for a rematch with a group they played previously in the season, Saban joked that Smart and Sarkisian were “bulls– tting us” about what’s in shop for the Georgia-Texas match.
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Saban might translucent what Smart and Sarkisian were stating since they most likely discovered it from him. He did describe why they were “bulls– tting” due to the fact that he applauded them for being “the very best I’ve ever been around at getting a group all set to play in a huge video game.”
Smart worked as an assistant for 10 seasons with Saban going back to 2004 when he was a protective backs coach at LSU. The set were reunited in 2007 at Alabama, where Smart stayed for 9 seasons before being employed by Georgia in December 2015.
Sarkisian had 2 various stints at Alabama. He initially signed up with Saban’s personnel in 2016 as an offending assistant and interim offending organizer.
After 2 seasons with the Atlanta Falcons as their offending planner, Sarkisian went back to Alabama in 2020 as offending organizer and quarterbacks coach. He parlayed his success because function into being called head coach at Texas in January 2021.
Naturally, neither Smart nor Sarkisian wish to offer anything away today. There is a lot at stake for the winner of this video game. In the present College Football Playoff rankings, Texas is at No. 2 and Georgia is at No. 5.
The winner, in addition to winning the SEC title, will likely get a first-round bye when the last College Football Playoff field is revealed on Sunday.
These 2 groups satisfied in the routine season on Oct. 19 in Austin. Georgia pressed Texas around because video game en path to a 30-15 triumph. The Longhorns were held to 29 hurrying backyards on 27 brings.
Texas will seek to get vengeance versus Georgia when the SEC Championship Game starts at 4 p.m. ET from Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta.
