Kirby Smart, the head coach of Georgia football, has been included to the preseason Dodd Trophy watch list.
Since Nick Saban is no longer coaching at Alabama, Georgia football head coach Kirby Smart has been crowned the new king of college football and is the center of attention. At the University of Georgia, he has established a formidable team that is currently gearing up to claim its third national championship in four years. He has been included to the Dodd Trophy preseason watch list after demonstrating his superiority in the field.
The Bobby Dodd Coach of the Year Foundation released a list of 21 coaches on their preseason watch list with quite a few of them coming from the SEC. Coach Smart made the cut along with Josh Heupel, Steve Sarkisian, Eli Drinkwitz, Brian Kelly and Lane Kiffin. An SEC head coach has not won the award since 2014 when Nick Saban took it home.
The Dodd trophy doesn’t just come down to winning football games but it does play a role and Smart has done a lot of that at Georgia. The Bulldogs have posted three consecutive regular-season records without a loss. Since the 2020 season, Georgia has only lost two games over a stretch of 44 total games.
Smart has been a head coach in college football for quite a bit of time now as he is preparing to enter his ninth season as the program’s head coach and he has brought home a lot of hardware since his first season at Georgia. Being awarded the Dodd Trophy at the end of this season would likely be considered just icing on the cake.
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