With the recent scheduling of several non-traditional, Power Five opponents in the near future, many Georgia fans think that in-state rival Georgia Tech will be taken off the schedule.
Georgia head coach Kirby Smart respectfully put those rumors to rest on Monday.
“I think this is one of the most traditional rivalries in all of college football. And I don’t know that our scheduling is going to change the fact that — it’s not going to move the proximity of their university and ours,” Smart said during his weekly Monday press conference. “We’re always going to have interstate rivals, whether it’s through recruiting, whether it’s through recruiting students, whether it’s through anything.