Kirby Smart hints why Georgia football favored to blow out rivals Tenn, Florida and Georgia Tech

Kirby Smart is known best for his defensive prowess, but the seventh-year Georgia head coach isn’t so arrogant as to think he can win another national championship relying on his defense.

At least, not to the extent the record-setting 2021 defensive unit was able to dominate opponents in setting a modern-era regular season (12-game) record with only 6.9 points allowed per contest.

“It’s who we were that year, we’ll be a different team this year,” Smart said last week during an appearance on the Paul Finebaum Show on the SEC Network.

“We won’t have five first-round defensive players coming back, it’s not going to be the case. I don’t think it’s going to be replicated very often.”

No doubt, it will be a very different Georgia team with 15 players selected in the most recent NFL Draft an another seven players -- including four former starters -- leaving the program via the transfer portal.

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