Will Leitch is a contributing editor at New York magazine, columnist for MLB.com and the founder of Deadspin. He lives with his wife and two rambunctious boys in Athens and will be writing for BI throughout the season.
If you’ll forgive me, I shall begin my first piece for this publication with a brief negative thought: What is the worst moment of the Kirby Smart era?
I don’t mean the most disappointing moment, or the moment that hurt the most. We all know that’s 2nd-and-26 in the 2018 BCS Championship Game—it’s a gut shot just to type those words—but even as painful as that was, it’s difficult to call that the “worst” moment: Georgia was within one play of a national championship, after all.