Man I was sitting here thinking about the 2017 Rose Bowl and how that team was supposed to be a year early. We had all those freshmen and sophomores running around and people kept saying "wait til next year" and "they're too. That team was raw and hungry and nobody outside of Athens believed in them until they had to. Now I look at this 2026 roster and I see the exact same energy building. We lost guys to the draft and that's fine because Kirby has been stacking talent for years. The portal class was quiet by our standards which tells me the staff likes what they see in the building. We landed Kaiden Prothro at tight end and he is gonna be a problem for every linebacker in the. The under-the-radar list ESPN just dropped for us is going to have some name nobody expects and by October we. That is how it always works here. We develop guys that other programs let slip through the ccracks and then they turn into first rounders. People keep doubting us because we arent flashy in the spring but they forget that we have been doing this. Give me Georgia against the field this year. I have seen this script before and I know how it ends.