ATHENS - Kirby Smart and the Georgia Bulldogs now begin the long wait until the 2023 season kicks off with the September 2 opener against UT-Martin.

ATHENS - The identity of Kirby Smart and the Georgia Bulldogs has been defense. In his seven seasons as the head Dawg, Georgia’s calling card has been an unrelenting defensive effort that gives opposing offensive coordinators nightmares.

ATHENS - After a long, tortuous three-month period, the Georgia Bulldogs return Saturday. G Day gives fans and upcoming opponents an opportunity to view the next installation of the soul-crushing machine that is Kirby Smart’s program

ATHENS - Going into his eighth season it’s undeniable that Georgia Bulldogs coach Kirby Smart has ascended the college football coaching ladder as quickly as any coach in modern history.

ATHENS - If the Georgia Bulldogs‘ back-to-back national championships didn’t indicate a change in who is at the forefront of college football it should have at least signaled that Alabama was no longer alone in their mostly-annual domination of fall college landscape.

ATHENS - Kirby Smart and the Georgia Bulldogs are just past halfway through the spring practice schedule coming off back to back championships.

ATHENS - After another championship run, the Georgia Bulldogs head into spring practice in a familiar place. After seeing a record 15 players selected in the 2022 NFL Draft, the Bulldogs look to lose another large number of key contributors in this year’s version.

ATHENS - Most college football fans are focused on two things right now: where their favorite players may be drafted in the upcoming NFL Draft and spring practice.

ATHENS - Fresh on the heels of winning back-to-back championships, Kirby Smart and the Georgia Bulldogs faced tragedy. The loss of Devin Willock and Chandler LeCroy shocked and devastated the program and the entirety of Dawg Nation.

ATHENS - The Georgia Bulldogs‘ second national championship in as many years is a little over 3 weeks in the rear view mirror. The euphoria has subsided…some.

ATHENS - Georgia Bulldogs and coach Kirby Smart will play in a second consecutive national title game - this time against Sonny Dykes and the TCU Horned Frogs in the 2023 College Football Playoff National Championship Game in Los Angeles.

ATHENS - Kirby Smart and the No. 1 Georgia Bulldogs are going to be tough to beat - unless they give the other team some help.

ATHENS - Kirby Smart and the Georgia Bulldogs have made it seven games into the 2022 season with five potential season-altering contests left.

ATHENS - For the first time in 41 years the Georgia Bulldogs strut into the impending football season as the defending champions. The past 7-plus months have created a level of anticipation unseen in my time as a Dawg fan. Visions of a potential dynasty under the lead of Kirby Smart have become the

ATHENS - It is fair to say that the Georgia Bulldogs’ football program has seen a noticeable shift in its on-field performance in Kirby Smart’s first 6 years as the head coach.

Jimbo Fisher has to be ecstatic that Brian Harsin exists.

Like most of you, I’ve spent the last 48-plus hours reveling in Georgia’s ascension to the top of the college football world.

December 4th hurt. Unfulfilled expectations will do that. The months of anticipation leading into the SEC Championship Game exploded in our faces with a disappointment that’s very hard to put into words. And that’s just a fan’s perspective.