Kirby Smart’s pregame message before Alabama and Georgia has now spilled into the open, and the leaked audio gives a raw look at what he was telling his team before kickoff.
Smart later confirmed in his Monday press conference that the voice on the recording was his.
In the speech, Smart hammers home the physical edge he wanted from Georgia and frames the matchup as a straight-up survival test. “This is the same fucking team we played about eight months ago, and all they want to talk about is being physical,” Smart can be heard saying in the leaked video.
“All they want to talk about is being more physical than you. That is all the f**k they want to talk about.
You know what guys? It is the him or me game tonight.
It’s him or fing me… We control this motherfer. We practice the right way.
We do this sh*t the right way. You better make these motherf**ker believe.
Fck the scoreboard. I don’t give a fck about the scoreboard.
I want to fck these bi**es up…”
The message was on its way to becoming part of the night’s lore, and Georgia backed it up with a 20-17 win over Alabama.
The clip also caught attention online after Will Compton reacted on October 11, 2026, posting: “Truly nothing like going from the Lord’s Prayer to a Kirby Smart “make these mother f****** believe” speech https://t.co/lvs8ZNpGNk”
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