A video showing the backup safety Jake Pope celebrating with Ole Miss fans in the post-game scrum after the Rebels’ 28-10 victory in Oxford went viral Monday.

Bulldog head coach Kirby Smart was anything but satisfied.

When asked if he had seen the video, Smart responded quickly.

“What an idiot. Just stupid. I only saw it today, but he’s embarrassed about it. He’s angry about it. That’s obviously a childhood friend of his that he grew up with and played with at Buford and he knows him, hasn’t seen him in forever, but just not really smart,” Smart said. “To be honest, I don’t have time to waste energy on that. My focus is on Tennessee. I’m not worried about that.”

Bulldog linebacker Jalon Walker didn’t have much to say, simply saying, “Right, a mistake, but I mean, that’s just from Coach Smart’s answer.”

Pope issued an apology on Monday morning

Pope has played just three games for Georgia, most recently against Florida two weeks ago.

Georgia is in a must-win situation if the Bulldogs want to earn a spot in the 12-team College Football Playoff.

However, Smart doesn’t look at Saturday night’s game against Tennessee that way.

“I never use these approaches. I don’t think this is the right way to go about things,” Smart said. “I think you try to win your conference all the time, and to do that you have to win your games at home. You have to play well on the road, which we have and don’t have. We’ve done both, but I like to make it about who we play and how we play, and less about just the results.”

…Smart in Saturday night’s match: “They have a great team; Josh (Heupel) has done an incredible job with this team. They are playing at a high level and just saw some of their special teams play. I always say that you can tell by the character of a team how good a team is, how hard they play through their special teams. They play really hard, defensively, offensively,” Smart said. “I think they’re at the top of the conference, maybe top three, top two, in almost every category on offense and defense. And that was, as you know, what we were dealing with last week, they were quite high in both. But this team plays at an extremely high level defensively, and they have an extremely explosive offense and an extremely physical offense.”

…About his players playing with nagging injuries: “Well, you go with what the medical people give you, you know what I mean? If a man is healthy enough to exercise, he exercises. If he isn’t, then he won’t. So I’m going with the recommendation of the great training staff we have. Those kids want to practice. They want to go out and do it, and sometimes they can,” Smart said. ‘Sometimes they can do certain things and not others. I respect those guys. And most of the time, especially on your offensive line, it’s the toughest unit you have. So they’re going to give you everything they’ve got, and they want to go out there and practice and play. But in some cases they can, in other cases they cannot.”

…Smart on Earnest Greene III’s development and the injuries he’s dealing with: “No. 1, he plays the toughest position in all of football, which is the left tackle position. I think he’s done a really good job. We’ve thrown some, and Monroe (Freeling) spells him sometimes. Earnest has been dealing with a injury, a really tough injury to deal with. He’s got burners. He’s got some stingers and burners on his shoulder,” Smart said. “So even last week he was limited in the number of reps he could get in practice .He’s frustrated because right now he’s trying to improve and get better, and sometimes you can’t do that if you can’t practice every day, and you can’t go out there and maybe grind and compete like you want to a guy who actually played left tackle for two years in major college football, and he was part of an offensive line that did a great job protecting the quarterback over the course of two years.”

…Smart on any similarities between Ole Miss and Tennessee’s crimes: “Not really comparable. Two different offenses,” Smart said.

…Smart on Tennessee’s defensive front: “With four people they are extremely disruptive. They don’t have to add anything. They press, and they press well, but they don’t have to,” Smart said. “They’re going after people with four guys rushing. They consist of two platoon and play a lot of boys. They have elite rushers on the perimeter, which we all know about, but no one talks about how hard they play internally. I think Coach (Rodney) Garner has done a great job. The physicality they play across the board on the defensive line is tremendous, and they play really hard.”