ESPN recently sat down with Georgia head coach Kirby Smart for a long Q&A.
Notable among Smart’s comments was his enthusiasm for the new 12-team College Football Playoff format debuting in 2024. “It keeps your hopes alive with one loss, maybe two,” Smart said, per ESPN. “A lot of coaches have complained that once they lost a game, their kids just said that they were done. There won’t be as much of that. Everybody’s fighting for the same thing, and that’s the beauty of making those last three or four weeks really, really eventful. I know some people say, ‘It devalues the late-season games because you’ll know you’re in.