Kirby Smart addresses being No. 1 in the country and reaction of it being 'no big deal'

Kirby Smart’s team has jumped in the AP Poll each of the first two weeks of the college football season. Georgia opened as No. 3 in the preseason, stepped up to No. 2 after their opener, and took the top spot on Sunday after week two. Even so, Smart couldn’t care less about rankings at this point of the year.

Smart talked about the digit in front of the Bulldog’s name during media on Monday. He said it literally means nothing right now when looking at the rest of their season.

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“It’s never a big deal. It only matters at the end of the year,” said Smart. “I don’t know that we’ve spent many weeks outside of the Top-10 and it never mattered whether we were inside the Top-10 or outside the Top-10. It just is irrelevant.”

This is the second straight season the AP Poll has ranked Georgia No. 1 at some point in the year. Their demolition of Oregon in their opener justified their movement to No. 2 last week. While they handled business against Samford this weekend, it was Alabama’s struggles against Texas that moved the Dawgs to the top spot.

It still doesn’t matter to Smart, though. At this point of the year, it’s all about focusing on and improving their execution for him. He only hopes that that sentiment is true for his players as well.

“I’m a lot more worried about how we execute a combo block than I am worried about where we’re ranked. Hopefully the kids are the same way,” said Smart.

Georgia will very likely remain within the Top-5 to Top-10 of the poll for the entire season. Be that as it may, that’s just not what Kirby Smart is interested in. His only goal is a Top-4 spot at the end of the season. That means a College Football Playoff berth for the Bulldogs and a stage for them to potentially repeat as national champions which, in the end, is all that matters to Smart.