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ESPN host says Kirby Smart will win more national titles than Nick Saban

ESPN host says Kirby Smart will win more national titles than Nick Saban

No. 1 Georgia football is a lock to beat No. 8 Alabama in the SEC Championship and win the College Football Playoffs, per SEC Network host Peter Burns.

Burns recently joined Dawgnation’s Mike Griffith on his podcast “On the Beat” and shared his thoughts on the Bulldogs’ historic run.

Georgia has won 38 consecutive regular season games and 28-straight SEC games. Head coach Kirby Smart has played for three national titles, winning two, in his first seven seasons. The Bulldogs have a chance to become the first team to three-peat since Minnesota in the 1930s.

“I ain’t picking against Georgia until they lose a game,” Burns said. “I don’t care if its the rest of the season, I don’t care if its 2025, I don’t care if its 2031.”

When comparing Smart’s run to Alabama’s Nick Saban, arguably the best coach in college football history, Burns was adamant that he would take Smart over Saban in terms of national titles.

“If you told me who is going to have more national championships underneath their belt, Nick Saban or Kirby Smart, I would absolutely put my money on Kirby Smart.”

Smart and the Bulldogs have plenty of work to do to belong in the conversation with the Crimson Tide, who have won six national championships under Saban since taking the job in 2007.

Smart certainly isn’t worried about national title comparisons to his former mentor. Georgia Tech is the focus this week as the Bulldogs prepare to take on the Yellow Jackets (6-5, 5-3 ACC) in Clean, Old Fashioned Hate.

Kickoff is set for Saturday at 7:30 p.m. ET in Bobby Dodd Stadium, televised on ABC.

 

 

Peter Burns announces top six teams following Tennessee-Missouri game

Peter Burns announces his top six college football teams following the Tennessee-Missouri game.

No. 5 Tennessee (9-1, 5-1 SEC) defeated Missouri (4-6, 2-5 SEC), 66-24, Saturday in Week 11.

Saturday’s contest was the Vols’ final home game during the 2022 season. Tennessee also celebrated senior day versus Missouri.

Tennessee’s 2022 regular-season schedule features home games against Ball State (W, 59-10), Akron (W, 63-6), Florida (W, 38-33), Alabama (W, 52-49), UT Martin (W, 65-24), Kentucky (W, 44-6) and Missouri (W, 66-24).

The Vols’ 2022 schedule features road contests at Pittsburgh (W, 34-27 OT) in the second edition of the Johnny Majors Classic, LSU (W, 40-13), Georgia (L, 27-13), South Carolina and Vanderbilt.

2022 Tennessee’s football schedule: Vols Wire’s downloadable schedule wallpaper

Following Week 11 games, Peter Burns announced his top six teams on SEC Network’s “SEC Football Final.” Burns’ top six teams are listed below.

Tennessee fans share Alabama last play celebration videos

Tennessee fans share Alabama last play celebration videos.

Tennessee (6-0, 3-0 SEC) defeated Alabama (6-1, 3-1 SEC), 52-49, at Neyland Stadium in Week 7.

Tennessee’s win ended a 15-game losing streak to Alabama in the annual series.

“What an unbelievable scene,” Tennessee head coach Josh Heupel said after the game. “That thing ends and, shoot, I’m running out in the middle of the field. You can see the swarm of orange coming down.

“The orange out was phenomenal tonight. The energy from our fans, the student body and our entire stadium was electric. Vol Walk is always the most unique thing in college sports, in my opinion. Until you experience it, it’s just words, but it truly is. Tonight’s Vol Walk was unlike anything I could ever imagine. The sea when I turned left with my kids was so deep. What an awesome night for Vol nation.”

SEC Network’s Peter Burns asked fans to share their celebration videos after the game ended. Fans’ celebration videos are listed below.

SEC Network’s Peter Burns: ‘Better for Notre Dame’ to lose game

Bad take.

Once Notre Dame suffered a 24-13 loss to Cincinnati, everyone knew its College Football Playoff chances had gone down to virtually zero. As is custom for people who don’t care for the Irish, their emotions ranged from nothing short of gleeful to relieved that a “real” team now can make the playoff. One person who took to Twitter to express his thoughts on the matter was Peter Burns, a studio anchor for the SEC Network. It took him until Sunday morning to do so, but he held nothing back:

Mike Golic Jr. wasted little time responding to Burns, as did his father:

I’m not going to pretend that the Irish have risen to the occasion when they’ve made the playoff or even looked pretty in those games. However, why can’t we have our cake and eat it, too? Isn’t being considered one of only four teams good enough to play for college football’s top prize an honor in its own right? It should be, especially for teams not in the SEC.

Every fan wants their team to win a national championship, but they know it isn’t destined to happen every year. Three of the four teams who make the playoff won’t have that ultimate goal realized. Still, look at all of the teams that don’t make the cut. I’d even say that it’s insulting to list the teams that immediately missed the cut.

Is Burns really saying that a program like Notre Dame would be better off playing in a bowl game nobody watches or at least has no real stakes involved? Sure, the Irish would be happy to be invited to a New Year’s Six Bowl, but shouldn’t they make the playoff if they had a strong regular season with one or zero losses? Pick another hill to die on, Peter.

Jeremy Pruitt discusses coaching at Hoover, evolution of college offenses

Jeremy Pruitt discusses coaching at Hoover, evolution of college offenses.

KNOXVILLE — The 2020 college football season is nearing 100 days until kickoff.

Tennessee will kickoff Jeremy Pruitt’s third season as the Vols’ head coach Sept. 5 against Charlotte at Neyland Stadium.

Pruitt recently joined “SEC This Morning” to discuss a wide-range of topics including his time as an assistant at Hoover High School (2004-06) under then-head coach Rush Propst.

“The league that we played in was very well coached, and a lot of the guys that we coached against are coaching in college,” Pruitt said. “Some of the guys that I coached with or coached against, whether it’s Bill Clark at UAB, John Grass at Jacksonville State, or Chip Lindsey at Troy, Matt Moore is at West Virginia — he was our offensive coordinator at Hoover. So it’s interesting ten years later, it’s almost like the game that we started coaching in college is what we we were coaching back then.

“I know from a defensive perspective, looking at the offenses, with the way the game has kind of become, a lot of loose plays, and it’s on the perimeter with a lot of RPOs. This was things that we were seeing everyday in practice, so lots of things that I am seeing right now across college football. I think at Iowa State — they play with three-high safety looks — and I see other teams doing this. It was things that I saw back in the early 2000s. So it’s interesting how the game kind of evolves and comes back around, and I’m sure it will continue to do that.”

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Photo by Dan Harralson, Vols Wire

 

On “SEC This Morning,” host Peter Burns also asked Pruitt about Propst recently discussing how the third-year Tennessee head coach does well against offenses like Oklahoma’s Lincoln Riley.

 

“He runs the same type of offense that I run, he has always been creative, but I just feel like that game sits where Jeremy is at his best. That is where I think Jeremy is at his best, is in that kind of game.” — Rush Propst said of Tennessee playing at Oklahoma in Week 2.

 

“Going back to those days, we played against a fast-paced offense every single day,” Pruitt told Burns. “I’m not really comparing that to what Lincoln does, but I do think that in the way that we structured in how we call things, I think we really adapted probably faster — maybe than some other teams in how to deal with fast-paced offenses.

“Just from a call-system, making it one word, we had to do that going back to when I was coaching at Hoover. We could be very, very multiple and run everything that we wanted to within our system, but it was all one word calls. They managed to do it on offense, you got to manage to do it on defense. I felt like from a structural standpoint, we have been able to do that.”