Less than two hours before Jared Curtis was to play his last high school football game in a state championship, Georgia football coach Kirby Smart fielded a question early in his SEC Championship game zoom press conference about the quarterback who got away.

Curtis, the nation’s No. 1 overall prospect from Nashville Christian School, flipped from Georgia to home town Vanderbilt on Tuesday.

It was the second time in three years the Bulldogs lost a five-star quarterback just prior to the early signing period starting .

Dylan Raiola, who played at Buford, became a Nebraska signee after being pledged to Georgia.

Smart, speaking for the first time publicly since Curtis’s flip, was asked how losing quarterbacks from Georgia’s class in those instances impacts how the program recruits qua

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