WATCH or READ: Kirby Smart’s postgame comments [Video]

Opening Statement…

“Yeah, I was proud of the effort of our team tonight. I felt we had tremendous fan showing from our fans who showed up, and there’s a lot of them there. I thought the atmosphere was incredible. Anytime you play on the road in the SEC, it is. A lot of respect for Texas and their team. A lot of resilience with our team in terms of overcoming many obstacles, including some self-inflicted. Our inability to catch a ball was almost comical. But I was proud of our guys.

Nobody really gave us a chance. Everybody doubted us, and I really felt like we’d gotten better over the last three weeks. We played a good football team tonight. They’ll win some games. I told our kids coming into the game it was going to be a challenge. Win or lose, we weren’t out of it, and that’s the case now. …