In just his second season as the head coach at the University of Georgia, Kirby Smart has the Bulldogs in the college football playoff national championship facing a team that Smart is very familiar with.
Georgia will face the Alabama Crimson tide on Monday at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta and while Smart will be perusing around on the Georgia sideline, his former boss, Nick Saban, will be staring down the former Alabama defensive coordinator from the opposite sideline.
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