Kirby Smart

Kirby Smart is an American football coach and former player. Smart is the head coach of the Georgia Bulldogs football team, his alma mater, and is entering his tenth season as head coach in 2025. As head coach, he led the Bulldogs to back-to-back National Championship victories in 2021 and 2022.

Smart’s record is an impressive 105-19 for an .847 winning percentage. The highlights include back-to-back College Football Playoff (CFP) National Championships (2021, 2022), a 2017 CFP title game appearance, Southeastern Conference Championships in 2017, 2022 and 2024, six SEC Eastern Division titles and eight New Year’s Six bowl games.

In 2024, Smart became the fifth fastest coach to reach 100 career wins in FBS history, needing just 117 games to do it. The milestone win, a 30-15 victory, came over No. 1 Texas in Austin. Two months later in the SEC Championship Game in Atlanta, Georgia beat then No. 2 Texas again. Over the last four years, Georgia has been the most dominant program, leading the FBS with a 53-5 record including two national titles and two SEC crowns. Overall, the Bulldogs lead the nation with 28 consecutive bowl game appearances. Through 2024, the program has produced 63 NFL draft picks in the Smart era including 17 first-round selections. Also, Georgia extended its national-leading streak of having at least one former player in the Super Bowl for the 24th consecutive year.

Smart returned to his alma mater in December of 2015, and in his second year, he had the Bulldogs playing for the national championship for the first time in three decades. The Bulldogs would end a 41-year championship drought in 2021. A year later, the Bulldogs would become the first and only team in the CFP era to repeat as national champions, going a perfect 15-0.

Smart earned a bachelor's degree in Finance from Georgia in 1998 and a master's in Physical Education from Florida State in 2003.