Kirby Smart and Brent Key are just two of nine Power 5 coaches who are leading their alma maters. Not only that, but the two head coaches actually squared off against one another as players.

ATHENS — Brent Key and Kirby Smart have very different public views on the Georgia-Georgia Tech rivalry. For Smart, he knows he can’t emphasize this game as the end-all, be-all. Georgia has many rivalries and if you put too much emphasis on one game, it can throw your priorities out of whack.

Georgia football's Kirby Smart sidestepped a question about Georgia Tech head coach Brent Key's hatred of the Bulldogs

A shortened week of Clean, Old-Fashioned Hate arrived when Georgia football’s 59-21 win over UMass ended Saturday afternoon. Let the hate begin

Since taking over at Georgia, Smart has never lost to the Yellow Jackets. The Yellow Jackets have not defeated the Bulldogs since 2016 and have 41 all-time wins in the series compared to Georgia’s 71. In 2023, the Yellow Jackets kept it close, losing by single digits.