One of the main talking points of No. 3 ranked Georgia's 23-17 home win over Notre Dame last weekend involves accusations of Fighting Irish players faking injuries in an attempt to slow the Dawgs down offensively. Georgia had found some success going uptempo and on multiple occasions, Notre Dame players took to the ground, resulting in the referees stopping the clock. On Tuesday, Georgia head coach Kirby Smart was asked about the allegations and while he did not say he felt it occurred, he did acknowledge its existence in the game.

“No. 1, my opinion does not matter whether I think they did or they didn’t," Smart said. "It has no bearing whatsoever so I don’t think I even need to answer that question but whether it goes on in college football or not, sure I think it goes on.”

On Sunday, Notre Dame head coach Brian Kelly brushed back the notion during his teleconference.

"(Jeremiah Owusu-Koramoah) was evaluated for a concussion," Kelly said. "He was brought to the tent. So, that's hard to be booing at a young man who suffered an evaluation for a concussion. Quite honestly, Georgia doesn't play very fast, so I found that to be quite interesting there would be a number of questions on something like that.

"Then the other one was (Asmar Bilal) cramping. Again, it's a non-issue. It happens in college football all of the time. Guys go down and they've got to be administered to. I've seen games against us where there have been many, many more, so I'm not even sure why you're asking the question."

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During the live telecast, the CBS announcer team highlighted Owusu's injury when he went down on a Georgia drive in the third quarter. The linebacker appeared to be struggling to walk while looking toward the Notre Dame sideline, and then Irish safety Alohi Gilman quickly ran over and pushed his teammate to the ground. The Notre Dame medical staff then came out to attend to Owusu; Georgia fans began booing because the offense had quickly moved into the red zone after a string of positive plays, something the Bulldogs had struggled to do at that point of the game. After play resumed, the Irish stopped the Bulldogs on second and third down; Georgia ended the drive with a field goal by Rodrigo Blankenship to go up 13-10.

"We knew we were close," Georgia quarterback Jake Fromm said after the game. "It was the body blows. It was the physicality. We just kept hitting em, hitting em, hitting em and finally it just started wearing on em. So it started to let us run the ball more. We started making plays."