Kirby Smart in entering his 10th season as head football coach at Georgia, but he drew on his nine seasons on the Alabama staff when talking about how the game has changed in recent years.

If it was up to Kirby Smart, college football would be centered around "fire, passion and energy" and none of these landscape-altering changes the sport has endured over the last few seasons. The Georgia coach is a football-first guy,

Greg McElroy, the former Alabama quarterback and now an ESPN/SEC Network analyst, opined Monday that Saban, who retired after the 2023 season, could get back into coaching. McElroy downplayed it later, but by then SEC coaches were being asked about it, especially those who worked for Saban.