The notion that some schools would travel to another city to steal signs, as Michigan has been accused of doing, is news to Kirby Smart.

“I’ve never heard of anybody to go to games to watch, film, and do all that stuff that’s going on that everybody is talking about,” Smart said after practice Tuesday. “I don’t know anybody that’s ever done that. I’ve never been asked to do that as a young coach or known anybody to do that. I’ve never heard of that.”

Smart's squad may have been a victim.

The NCAA and the Big 10 are investigating whether or not Wolverine staffer Connor Stalions—who has been suspended by the school—traveled to games of future Michigan opponents to steal their calls.

Published reports Monday disclosed that Stalion bought tickets to five Big Ten teams over the past three years.

“I don’t know. There have been times people have said they’ve had our signals in games to do this or that,” Smart said. “We talk to the team that you played last, and sometimes if you’re not going to play that team again, they might share what they might have had on you and things like that.”

In-game sign stealing is another story.

Teams, including Georgia, routinely hold a large sheet to keep the prying eyes of coaches in the press box from having an idea of what’s going on.

“As far as in-game, I think people try to do that; it tries to go on,” Smart said. “As a signal caller, when I called defenses, it confused me if I had to sit there and wait on somebody to tell me what they thought they got when I’m trying to figure out what the best call for that situation is, and you’re relying on misinformation or something that’s not very reliable.”

Linebacker Jamon Dumas-Johnson was asked his thoughts on sign-stealing and how much it would matter.

“It would be huge, but I don’t think we do that over here,” Dumas-Johnson said. “Our preparation and our coaches doing their job; I think that’s why we’ve been successful the last few years.”

Smart said he had never heard of any accusations that Michigan might have done any advance filming of Georgia signals prior to the 2021 Orange Bowl.

The Bulldogs won the game, 34-11.

“I didn’t notice anything or know anything; nobody we talked to warned us or anything like that,” Smart said. “I think everybody we play, they say, ‘they steal your signals.’ We play somebody and they say, ‘They’re great at stealing your signals.’ But what they’re referencing (at Michigan) is different than stealing them. They’re talking about people to come and film on us. But we’ve tried to hide signals, hold the calls, put the signs up, all that. But there’s nothing about the Michigan game that makes me think that.”