No college football team will ever be able to touch this once-in-a-lifetime achievement by head coach Kirby Smart. Georgia won back-to-back National Championships just a few years ago, and before they did it you have to go back to 2011-12 (Nick Saban) to find the closest similarity. And it may not ever happen again.
The College Football Playoff expansion to 12 teams has hurt Georgia as they have lost in the quarterfinals two years in a row. But with the parity of talent, the easy shore up of skill players available through the Transfer Portal, and the sheer grind of a 16-game season to a natty, Smart's legendary wins stand no chance of being matched.
Only Kirby Smart can match Kirby Smart
The only football coach in America who could possibly pull off repeating as national champions is Smart. Only he understands the grind it takes to win one and then reload and do it again. All those other overpaid coaches who haven't even won one will learn soon enough that if you can win one, you better appreciate it deeply.
With athletic directors getting hair triggers on firing coaches and spending millions to get another one, there won't be any football programs with enough consistency to build the long-term momentum to win a championship and keep the talent necessary to repeat. Smart has done it. Only he will be able to to it again, and it will be extraordinarily harder than it was a few years ago.
Whether it happens or not isn't all that important, because the fact that it did remains the all-time greatest achievement for Smart that no coach currently employed will ever touch. This massive back-to-back success may have created unrealistic expectations in Athens and the Georgia faithful, but Bulldog fans should note the sheer impossibility of it happening again to show the high respect it deserves.