Two days after Georgia football coach Kirby Smart’s shove of Mississippi State quarterback Michael Van Burnen near the Bulldogs' sideline created a stir on social media, Smart said he's talked to to both him and his coach, Jeff Lebby.

Smart said after the game he didn’t remember much about the incident with Van Buren, but said he was trying to get the attention of Bulldogs' defensive coordinator Glenn Schumann about changing personnel.

“I went back and watched it," Smart said Monday. "I didn’t even realize that I had run into him."

He said he spoke to Lebby after the game Saturday night and talked to Van Buren on Sunday.

"I told him I had no intentions or ill will towards him at all," Smart said. "If you’ve ever been on the sidelines of a game, it’s pandemonium. It's really pandemonium when you're trying to change personnel and you've only got three or four seconds to do it. We were bad off in a bad personnel grouping against empty that we actually messed up the week before. I was trying to get Schumann to get that changed. I reach out to the kid, he was great. He's a really good player."

The contact with Van Buren came after a 6-yard run after he went out of bounds.

Van Buren turned and was heading back and stayed on his feet after the contact. After the game, he said “I’m not really sure what that was, but I was just trying to play my game. I didn’t really see it for real.”

No penalty was called on Smart.

The SEC has not responded to a request for comment. Neither has Mississippi State.

(This story was updated to add new information.)

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