Kirby Smart Discusses the Challenge of SEC Road Games
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00:00Kirby Smart says every road game in the SEC is a tough one, not just going to Tuscaloosa.
00:08I'm not going to be dismissive of going to play at Ryan Denny.
00:11It's hard.
00:12But when you play on the road in the SEC, everywhere is hard.
00:15I mean, it is just difficult to play.
00:17The passion and energy on road games.
00:19People don't go ask a veteran SEC coach about road wins.
00:24There are only good wins.
00:26There are no bad wins.
00:27And it's not any different when you go to Tuscaloosa.
00:29It's a hard place to play.
00:30The passion, the energy, the players on the field, they're all good.
00:35And that's a challenge that we kind of embrace that.
00:38We love that.
00:39We like going on the road.
00:40We like being the one against the many.
00:43And I think you have to embrace it.
00:45Well, they're good.
00:47They're good enough.
00:48And we'll see if they can handle DeBoer and Tide in Tuscaloosa.
00:53I'm not as high on them as everybody else is in terms of Alabama.
00:58I think he's going to have some level of growing pains, isn't he, down in the SEC?
01:04This isn't Washington, OK?
01:08And that, compared to this, that was cream puff.
01:12Now he's going into the big time, the big leagues.
01:15And I'm not buying them, as you know.
01:17And then going to Austin to play at Texas, that's a nightmare.
01:23That's just a nightmare right there.
01:24I say they lose that game.
01:26Look, now they're the favorites all over the place, right?
01:29They're the favorite for the national championship.
01:31They're like minus 700 to make the playoff.
01:33They're all these things.
01:35This schedule is that they got some real tough games.
01:38They open with Clemson.
01:39I'll be at the games in Georgia, in Atlanta.
01:42Fine.
01:42They're at Alabama.
01:43They're at Texas.
01:44They're at Ole Miss.
01:46You know, they play Texas.
01:48Like, those are three really tough road games, Ole Miss, Alabama, and Texas,
01:53that they're going to have in conference.
01:55They're not going to win all three of them, Scotty.
01:56They're not.
01:57You know, they might lose two out of three of them, like you said.
02:00Georgia's going to have a very tough schedule this year.
02:03Well, I told you multiple times that the two teams that I'm
02:06most interested in in the conference are Texas and Ole Miss.