Kirby Smart on 4th down that backfired: 'We screwed that up a little bit'

NEW ORLEANS – Kirby Smart was asked two days before Georgia football’s College Football Playoff quarterfinal about his propensity to use gadget plays, to be willing to take risks. “There's not a coach in the country that's not trying to gain a competitive advantage,” he said. “There are things you work on, try to highlight maybe your kids' strengths, maybe try to highlight their weaknesses. But they're only good if they work. It could be the greatest idea in the world, but if it doesn't work, it wasn't very smart. And that's just roll of the dice, I guess.” Third-seed Georgia rolled the dice with its season on the line in the fourth quarter on Thursday night, Jan. 1, when it went for it in...