Kirby Smart's Bulldogs are playing like a team capable of winning a national title. Dale Zanine / Imagn Images ATHENS, Ga. — Cash Jones kept asking Kirby Smart: When will we do it? They practiced it over and over, several years now. When would they do it? When Smart told Jones and others on the Georgia football team that this would be the week, safety KJ Bolden didn’t believe it. Such a big game. Such a big opponent. And when they finally did it, when kicker Peyton Woodring turned his foot out to give the onside kick just the right push, when Jones caught the bouncing football in stride, it caught more than just Texas by surprise. “I didn’t even know we were doing it,” Georgia receiver Noah Thomas said. “I just heard the crowd screaming. And I was like, ‘Oh, we’re going back in.’” “I tried to go up and say something to him, but he was so hyped,” Bolden said of Smart.
Published: November 16, 2025 3:05 pm
Source: The New York Times — Read original