Georgia was on top of the world after winning their second consecutive National Championship just three years ago. The program then fell on hard times in the College Football Playoff and haven't won a playoff game since.
All of the blame for that falls on Kirby Smart ad Georgia, but there are things the playoff committee could do that would make Georgia's life much easier. That is why Smart pitched the committee to eliminate the long break in the schedule before the postseason begins because he believes that played a role in Georgia's failures the last two years.
“I am a big fan of continuing the season in continual motion, meaning taking out the long break,” Smart said via 247Sports.com. “You could say for obvious reasons, but I just think football is played that way. I don't think football is played to have a 24-, 27-day break. We had that too in the past. I've been a part of the long breaks for years at Alabama and Georgia when it was four teams, and we usually were successful with that.”
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Smart believes that all the CFP committee needs to do is start the playoff games much sooner. The last two years Georgia had to wait nearly a month before their first playoff game was played, and that just isn't natural.
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Smart however isn't willing to say that this long break is the reason Georgia lost the last two years, but he still believes it is the right thing to do for the sport even if it would greatly benefit them.
"It's not a matter of my independent want or need or success,” Smart continued. “It's about what's best, and football is not meant to be played in a month gap. There's no real competitive sport that I can find anywhere where you take a month off and then continue. That's just unusual. So solving that in the calendar and moving things up to Week 0 and getting a calendar where it plays throughout, I think plays to everybody's favor, including the student-athletes."
Smart is right. There isn't one other sport out there that forces teams to wait a month before their playoffs begin. At most the other major sports in America have a week off before the playoffs begin, but for some reason in college football teams regularly have to wait a month to play again.
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While there is a lot of push back for playoff expansion, an expanded playoff would likely fix this problem for Georgia.
More teams means more games which would leave the playoff committee no choice but to start the playoff sooner. This would automatically erase this massive gap in the schedule and allow every team to play a more continuous schedule that they are already used to.
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This would help every team in the country, but it would especially help Georgia who hasn't been able to find any success in the 12-team playoff era.
Whether the playoff expands or not is one thing, but Smart is hoping the schedule will get fixed either way so his team can be in a better position when it comes time to make a run at a National Championship.
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