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Kirby Smart delivers hope to Georgia, but now comes pressure of winning

You’ll have to forgive Kirby Smart if he didn’t seem overjoyed on Wednesday.

He was. Honest.

It’s just that Georgia’s 41-year-old head coach was worn out from the recruiting trail. He called it an "arduous process" reaching signing day, and in the end it went almost exactly as he had planned.

"A pretty uneventful day," he told reporters in Athens. "An exciting, uneventful day."

Through bleary eyes and a raspy voice, Smart detailed the 26 signees who made up Georgia’s 2017 Class, which checked in at No.