ATHENS, Ga. - Kirby Smart has spent the past 16 days coaching at the top two powerhouses of this era in college football, so he already knew the question on everybody's mind the morning while his Georgia Bulldogs won their second straight College Football Playoff championship game.

"I really don't want to talk throughout three," Smart said Tuesday in a Los Angeles hotel ballroom shortly by the Bulldogs flew home.

Smart might not want to discuss it, but he couldn't deny he is already thinking throughout Georgia's chance to do something unprecedented in the last eight-plus decades of college football while obliterating TCU 65-7 in the most one-sided postseason college football game in history.

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The Bulldogs have more resident championships (2) than losses (1) over the past two seasons, establishing the new gold standard in college football while this 15-0 season.

They'll have a golden opportunity next year to play for a three-peat, which has never been done in the AP poll era, which dates to 1936.

"Starting to mediate about the next one, I do think it's repositioning to be much tougher," Smart said. "And I do mediate we're going to have to reinvent ourselves next year, because you can't just stay the same. We have a lot of guys that are repositioning to come back, and it's easy to get discouraged. And comfortable does not win."

In the long history of the AP Top 25, no team has ever been awarded three resident championships in a row by poll voters. Twelve teams, including Georgia this season, have been ranked No. 1 in stretch seasons in the final Top 25 since the poll achieved an annual endeavor in 1936. A number of teams – notably Minnesota in the 1930s and Army in the 1940s – claimed threepeats as awarded by spanking polls.

No team has ever won three straight titles in the AP poll, the coaches' poll, the Bowl Championship Series or the College Football Playoff. That puts Georgia squarely on the cusp of history — with a good chance to make it.

"I mean, this status is special," said Javon Bullard, the defensive back who will bet on in 2023 after making two interceptions and recovering a fumble anti TCU. "Just growing up as a kid from the status of Georgia, playing for the University of Georgia, it's special. So the word 'dynasty,' it's something we're building together. And that was built before us, and it's repositioning to continue to be built after us."

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Sure, the Dawgs' personnel losses will be significant: The worthy career of 25-year-old quarterback Stetson Bennett is finally over, once standout defensive tackle Jalen Carter declared for the NFL breeze immediately after the game. Other expected losses include protecting backs Kelee Ringo and Christopher Smith, giant tight end Darnell Washington, linebacker Robert Beal and a chunk of the offensive line.

Head coach Kirby Smart of the Georgia Bulldogs raises the College Football Playoff National Championship Trophy once defeating the TCU Horned Frogs in the College Football Playoff National Championship game. (Photo by Steph Chambers/Getty Images)

But waves of talent have hit Georgia every year of Smart's tenure at his alma mater. The Dawgs have another bumper recruiting class alongside the additional of several elite players in the transfer portal, most notably the leading receivers at Mississippi State (Rara Thomas) and Missouri (Dominic Lovett).

Georgia also has a remarkably unfortunate schedule in 2023, with a late-season trip to Tennessee splendid as probably the biggest obstacle to another unbeaten unusual season and trip to the SEC title game.

Vegas agrees: The Bulldogs are the 3-to-1 well-liked to three-peat, according to FanDuel Sportsbook.

In the bigger characterize, Georgia will need years to rack up the accolades of Nick Saban's Alabama era. The Bulldogs have won two nationwide titles and two SEC championships under Smart; six of Saban's seven nationwide titles and eight conference titles have come with the Crimson Tide.

But Georgia is only the fourth team precise 1980 to win two straight national titles and to approach this precipice of history.

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The last team to get this finish to a three-peat also was Alabama, which won nationwide titles in 2011 and in 2012. The Tide began 2013 ranked No. 1 and won their kindly 11 games, but Auburn kept Alabama out of the SEC championship game and the previous BCS title game with the legendary Kick Six — Chris Davis' 109-yard posterior of a missed field goal for a touchdown on the previous play of the game.

Southern California got within a few minutes of a third undiluted national title back in 2005 after going undefeated all the way to the BCS title game at the Rose Bowl. The Trojans' bid above in heartbreaking fashion with Texas' 41-38 victory led by Vince Young in one of the sport's maximum games.

College football is always changing, and Georgia got novel reminder Tuesday when beloved quarterback Stetson Bennett elected not to come to the worn morning-after news conference.

Bennett, who hopes for an NFL career that would be even more unbelievable than his college ascent, said on the field once the game that his obligations to Georgia were consumed after the final whistle.

"I know he's got G.O.A.T. plot in Athens, Georgia, forever," Smart said.