Not to pour salt on what are assuredly still open wounds, but Georgia football doesn’t exactly have a sterling track record of closing out opponents.
Think of all the games known simply by the moniker describing Georgia’s late undoing: 5 Yards Short, The Prayer at Jordan-Hare, The Dobbsnail Boot, 2nd-and-26, and that’s an abbreviated list to keep me from ordering two large pizzas and eating my emotions.
If you grew up like I did – loving professional wrestling almost as much as you did college football – you know there’s something Georgia football could borrow from the grapplers of the squared circle: the finishing move.
A finisher is just a wrestler’s signature move, delivered with such expertise and ferocity that their opponent cannot possibly get up off the mat after it is administered.
In that spirit, here are the Top 10 WWE finishing moves for Georgia football, beginning with the Swanton Bomb.
Arian Smith is a gamebreaker, plain and simple. He’s a football player with track speed and he gives Georgia football a vertical threat in the passing game that’s been missing since Mecole Hardman left for the NFL.
Smith is such a blazer, that in addition to playing for Georgia’s football team, he also competed for the Dawgs track team, helping Georgia’s 4×100 relay team post a school record 38.54 relay time at the NCAA outdoor meet.
If things go as Georgia and offensive coordinator Todd Monken have planned, Smith will put the flight in the Dawgs high-flying offense.
What better finishing move for Arian Smith than the Swanton Bomb. Made famous by The Hardy Boyz, the move combines speed and agility off of the top rope with a gymnastics flare to ensure their opponents stay down for the count.