ATLANTA — This time last year, Georgia quarterback Stetson Bennett sat next to Kirby Smart and had to hear his head coach field questions about whether or not he should Bennett should be benched.
After the 2022 SEC Championship Game, Smart was explaining to reporters why Bennett should be going to New York as a Heisman finalist.
“Absolutely. I mean, I think it’s one of those things, this guy’s 23 of 29 in the second half, I mean, he didn’t get to do a whole lot in the second half, so I don’t know what he was in the first half,” Smart said. “He’s played really well. I had several people come up to me and say they thought he played the best game of his career tonight. He played really good.”
Bennett, in speaking with Jenny Dell of CBS, didn’t quite go as far as his head coach did. He praised his teammates.
“I’ve got good players around me. Shoot, I’m not that bad at football either,” Bennett said. “We got a good team.”
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