Pat McAfee truly believed Kirby Smart was playing with everybody with the clapping timeout controversy last week.

He found out real quick the Georgia coach was dead serious.

“Read my lips,” Smart kept saying during a Friday appearance on “The Pat McAfee Show.”

McAfee appeared genuinely surprised by how serious Smart was.

In addition, Lane Kiffin blew up Smart’s phone over the incident.

“He texted me,” Smart said of the Ole Miss coach. “I said, ‘Do you read lips? No human being ever calls a timeout where he’s saying, ‘They’re clapping. They’re clapping. They’re clapping.’ I’m repeatedly saying that with my lips and he’s saying, ‘I don’t care about your lips.’”

Smart said Kiffin loved the incident and “thought it was gonna be a good distraction Sunday and Monday.”

It backfired, though, according to the Georgia coach.

“He did a great thing by coming out, blowing me up for being a fat guy with his language,” Smart explained. “He took all the attention with that.”

On Monday, during a press conference, it was pointed out that both Kiffin and Smart are animated on the sidelines. Of the two, who burns more calories?

“I don’t know,” Kiffin said Monday. “That’s a good question. I walked by the TV and saw his press conference today. Doesn’t look like he’s burned too many calories. But he does have a lot of energy games and he coaches really passionately.”

On Saturday, Smart appeared to signal for a timeout with just more than 13 minutes left in the 20-10 win over Auburn as the play clock was winding down and facing a third-and-9. The Bulldogs, at the time, were trailing Auburn by three.

“Yeah, they’re clapping, so I told them before the game, ‘If these guys clap, it’s a penalty,’” Smart said in the postgame press conference. “They can’t clap, because we’ll false snap. I’ve lost games on that before in this stadium. And I told them, if they clap I’m going to tell you.”

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