This is false, unless you somehow knew that UGA was going to the natty and playoffs in year 2. If richt ever won a game as a big as the OU playoff game at UGA, I don’t remember it. You can say richt and smart have had similar starts outside of the natty appearance and recruiting, but richt wasn’t fired for his first 3 years. As for Cheney, he’s a good OC. Some of his game plans have been amazing, like first half of bama, but it seems he’s unable to make any adjustments when those plans don’t work, like LSU/auburn/Texas and he struggled in the red zone. Imo it was a solid hire since UT definitely could’ve done worse. It is funny that UT/Arkansas fans were laughing at UGA when they hired Cheney though.