Kirby Smart reflects on Georgia’s respect for SEC road games ahead of 13-12 loss to Kentucky: ‘People don’t respect that’

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This is the story of Georgia road games over the past two years, and it’s a message that Smart Kirby He said he’s been trying to hammer home the message with his team all week: Winning will be a challenge. And Saturday in Lexington, it was certainly a bigger challenge than Smart expected.

After a 13-12 victory against KentuckyA mud-scrambling offense that turned into a decisive second-half Georgia touchdown, Smart reflects on how his message got through to his intended recipients. Speaking with ESPN Molly McGrath After the game he wasn’t sure if that was the case, but after the game his players probably understood what he was saying.

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“When you play away in the SEC, people don’t respect that, and I’m not sure our guys listened to the message all week because they’re a good football team,” Smart said. “You don’t judge SEC teams on one week. They’re a good football team. We did what we had to do, but we didn’t really play well at all.”

Smart said his main takeaway from the win was that this Georgia team had grit in a tough situation.

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“We are resilient,” Smart said. “Two years ago, we went to Missouriand we almost lost that game that night, on the road. Played at Auburn Last year, the first game of the year, away, we almost lost that game. So you have to find ways to win those games and that’s what we did, we found a way to win. The best news is we can wake these guys up and get better. Because the first thing we have to do is get better.

McGrath also spoke to the quarterback Carson Beckwho joked that the Bulldogs were lucky to have a bye week, especially with Alabama on the other side. And if Smart felt like some of his players hadn’t absorbed the message all week, Beck certainly had.

“Thank God we have a week off, that’s all I have to say,” Beck said with a laugh. “No, Kentucky is a physical game and we knew we were going to come into this game and it was going to be physical, so we have the utmost respect for them and we knew this game was going to be like that. The first road game, it’s always going to be a tough test. You go back and we talked about it earlier in the week, you look at our first road games the last two years, it’s kind of like that. So we came in here hoping to go blow for blow and just trying to come away with a win, so I’m really proud of the guys.”