ATHENS, Ga. — Georgia football coach Kirby Smart realized an explanation might be needed when he said his goal for the second-ranked Bulldogs in Saturday’s game against Western Kentucky is to “continue to get better.”
After all, there seemed to be little room for improvement after last week’s season-opening 63-3 win against Tennessee State.
“We have a saying around here: ‘You don’t have to be sick to get better,'” Smart said Tuesday during his weekly news conference. “That’s been the motto of last week and this week.”
Georgia moved up one spot in the Associated Press Top 25 poll this week after Gunner Stockton passed for three touchdowns in less than one half and Nate Frazier ran for three scores in the dominant opener against an opponent from NCAA Division I’s lower-tier Football Championship Subdivision. The Bulldogs, the two-time reigning champions of the Southeastern Conference, scored touchdowns on their first five possessions for a 35-0 lead against the Tigers of the Ohio Valley Conference before Stockton left the game.
The visit from Conference USA’s Hilltoppers (0-1) on Saturday will be the last game before Georgia opens its SEC schedule at Arkansas on Sept. 19.