Georgia head coach Kirby Smart agreed that his top-ranked Bulldogs can take some lessons for the World Series champion Atlanta Braves.

“I think there’s always lessons you can learn from other teams in other sports. And we try to correlate those when they do and try to give them messages of perseverance,” Smart said. “Baseball is a really long season, a lot of games, and works a little different in the number of games, but the physicality is certainly there when it comes to that.

“A lot of our guys are Braves fans, and I know they follow them, but our focus is on Missouri and getting ready for them. But where we can use lessons like that, we always try to.”

Tight ends coach Todd Hartley is one of the team’s biggest fans of the Braves.

Nose tackle Jordan Davis and quarterback Stetson Bennett are among those who attended recent postseason games.

Smart himself sent out a congratulatory Tweet, using the opportunity to invite Braves mascot Blooper and any other Brave to come “celebrate” during Saturday’s game against the Tigers.

“To get more people there, right?” said Smart, when asked about the tweet. “You want to get as many people there as you can.”

Although Smart and the rest of the coaches were up late Tuesday at the football offices working, keeping up with what was going on in Houston was not difficult to do.

“The phones were blowing up with excitement every time somebody did something or when the home runs were hit,” Smart said. “But 9:30, 10 p.m. we were up here working on third down and red area, which we do every Tuesday.”