Georgia football has been in a lot of recruiting battles with Alabama this recruiting cycle. That fact won’t surprise any college football fan because these two programs are the best the SEC has to offer.
While these teams do battle it out for recruits regularly, there are still plenty of recruitments where they aren’t competing with each. One of those recruitments was for three-star wide receiver Owen Cabell, who recently announced his commitment to Alabama.
Georgia did not pursue Cabell so no UGA fans were paying attention to this commitment, but one fan hilariously pointed out the shirt Cabell was wearing in the commitment post Rivals shared on social media.
Using his picture in a “Kirby Smart Football Camp” shirt is, admittedly, hilarious https://t.co/cLVWCnaOTE
— Riley (@Ri_S_OB) June 30, 2025
Alabama commit featured in a Kirby Smart shirt in commitment post
Rivals for whatever reason decided to post a picture of Cabell wearing a “Kirby Smart Football Camp” shirt in their social media post announcing this commitment. This decision by Rivals definitely wasn’t done on purpose, but it is quite a hilarious moment between these two historic blue blood programs.
Recruits nowadays have more exposure than they have ever had before. This is the case even for a recruit like Cabell who is barely ranked inside the top 900 players in the country according to the 247Sports composite rankings. So there surely were plenty of other pictures Rivals could have used for Cabell that had nothing to do with Georgia, Kirby Smart or any other program for that matter.
But it’s impossible for Georgia fans to not love this moment because it is a subtle reminder to Alabama fans that UGA is the top dog in the SEC now. While some might debate this statement, a few Alabama fans are publicly admitting Georgia is the better program right now.
So even though this is just a silly mistake by Rivals, it is fun that it happened in Georgia’s favor.