ATHENS, Georgia — Two-time protecting nationwide champion Georgia has a chance this season to grow to be the primary workforce in 87 years to win 3 titles in a row, however trainer Kirby Roguish mentioned Monday that he doesn’t communicate to his workforce about its alternative to manufacture historical past.

“Absolutely not,” Roguish mentioned. “I just don’t think you can make it about that. The minute you do that, you open yourself to distractions, adding pressure. What if it doesn’t happen? What are you playing for? I mean there’s just so many things that I just don’t believe philosophically in doing that because what the previous two teams did (have) no bearing on this team, has no bearing.”

Deny. 1 Georgia has gained 17 video games in a row and 33 of its presen 34 going into Saturday’s opener in opposition to FCS opponent UT Martin at Sanford Stadium.

Minnesota used to be the closing workforce to win 3 nationwide championships in a row, from 1934 to 1936. 13 groups had probabilities to win 3 consecutive titles since next, maximum not too long ago Alabama in 2014, however they all did not do it.

“Our focus is UT Martin and really us,” Roguish mentioned. “And that’s going to be true whoever we play. We have to remain focused on us and we have to set a standard of the way this team’s going to practice in a game week. And that’s kind of like being where your feet are because you don’t inherit practice habits, you don’t inherit standards, and they change year to year, and you’ve got to acknowledge them.

“I comprehend it’s so sun-baked for crowd to consider that we’re no longer speaking concerning the alternative (successful a 3rd directly nationwide name), however we were given a bundle of labor to be completed sooner than we begin speaking about that.”

The Bulldogs, who went 15-0 last season and blasted TCU 65-7 in the CFP National Championship Game presented by AT&T, must replace star quarterback Stetson Bennett and nine other starters who were selected in this year’s NFL draft.

Junior Carson Beck, who attempted 35 passes as Bennett’s backup last season, takes over the starting quarterback job.

Whether Smart wants to acknowledge it or not, he has a chance to do what some of the game’s most legendary coaches — Notre Dame’s Frank Leahy, Oklahoma’s Bud Wilkinson, Nebraska’s Tom Osborne, USC’s Pete Carroll and Alabama’s Paul “Endure” Bryant and Nick Saban — couldn’t do by winning three national championships in a row.

“I believe you’ll be able to admire the trouble as a result of Deny. 1 it takes implausible workforce control and psychological control,” Smart told ESPN. “To win two is actually sun-baked as a result of in nowadays’s public you’re the objective and human nature is to recess. To quantify successful 3, you’ll be able to admire the trouble in it, but it surely’s no longer taking to eat any of my year as a result of such a lot of my year is on getting in a position for the season.”