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Kirby Smart Refused a Gatorade Bath After Winning the Orange Bowl

A celebratory dumping of a Gatorade cooler onto the winning coach is a standard celebration within college football.

Throughout this year’s bowl season, we’ve seen French fries, Cheez-Its, Kellogg’s Frosted Flakes and, arguable the grossest of them all, mayonnaise poured on coaches after winning their respective bowls. And, instead of food, others received the common Gatorade shower.

As Georgia breezed past Michigan in the Capital One Orange Bowl, one could assume coach Kirby Smart would not be doused in oranges, but players did prepare for the celebratory energy drink shower.

That is until Smart put a hard stop to it.