What’s the best thing that can happen for Georgia Tech this season?
Benjamin Tankersley
The best case scenario for Georgia Tech is that the defense sees the kind of dramatic improvement that Georgia Tech’s offense saw last year. That would catapult Georgia Tech into not only the ACC Championship Game, but potentially even further. Georgia Tech’s offense was not perfect, but it was certainly very good. A very good defense on top of that would make Georgia Tech a very, very threatening team. I think you could see the Yellow Jackets go 10-2, if not better. They would absolutely be in the ACC Championship Game and make an appearance in a New Year’s Six Bowl (if those aren’t absorbed into the newfangled 12-team playoff).
Jack Purdy
We win all the coin flip games plus one big upset (Any of FSU/ug[sic]a/ND), putting us at 10-2 and squarely in the ACC title/CFP discussion. Haynes & Haynes are an unstoppable force in the run game. Our defensive changes actually work to the point it can keep us in games. Our underdog/fly under the radar status completely disappears, and the uga game is the most anticipated Friday night college football game in decades. The best case of the best case would have that game being the upset instead of FSU or ND.
Logan Sandor
Win the ACC with a 10-2 record and go to the football playoffs. I can honestly see an argument for us winning any game we play in depending on a few factors. Every team (aside from maybe the dwags) have exploitable weaknesses. NC State and FSU are probably the biggest concerns in the ACC. There is a scenario where all the chips fall our way, the defense shows up, and Haynes King is in the Heisman race. As our readers have heard a million times it comes down to defense and avoiding turnovers. It’s not likely, but it’s possible.
Jeff Cramer
The Yellow Jackets ramble into Dublin and roll out with a convincing win over an FSU team who were still trying to put together a new offense that fared as well as their law team in a district court in another jurisdiction.
Little Five Points State, Upper New York and Virginia’s Local Militia are all wins without too much drama getting the Jackets to 4-0 to start the season.
The momentum keeps rolling right through Louisville like a racehorse jacked up on mint julips. Duke was really good on defense last year and it started up front with their line, but that DC and DL coach are now at Tech so shall Tech steal the win as well.
Tech travels to Chapel Hill to face off against UNC who will drop their 4th consecutive game to the Yellow Jackets. Not only does Georgia Tech win, but they win big with a score over 50 points. Geoff Collins gets pressured by the media post-game on what went wrong to his former team where he claims the defense is getting better every day and states “If you don’t see the progress then you aren’t looking.”
Now enters the daunting stretch of the schedule that turns out to be much ado about nothing. Notre Dame still hasn’t found receivers, the O-Line can’t block, and we are reminded that Riley Leonard never looked good throwing the ball at Duke. Virginia Tech hypes themselves on Enter Sandman but it’s the Hokies for whom the bell tolls as the Jackets ride the lightning behind Graham Knowles, because nothing scares the Hokies more than a Yellow Jacket backup QB.
Now it is time for Miami to come back to Atlanta and seek revenge against themselves! And they do lead late into the game with victory in reach! But they misjudge the clock and downs! They take a knee on 4th down on their own 15-yard line with 4 seconds to go in a 2-pt game! Aiden Birr whips it through the uprights for the win and Mario Cristobal gets sent back to Miami as checked luggage which erroneously gets lost in the bowels of the Hartsfield-Jackson Baggage System.
NC State is looking great this year coming into the game with 9 wins but runs into their annual glass ceiling along with midweek midtown traffic trying to get to the game, setting up an 11-0 showdown with the Dwags.
Gameday is in Athens for Clean-Old Fashioned Hate, and everybody picks Georgia to win because it was just a weak ACC schedule that Tech played. And they do, giving Georgia a 7-game win streak and one win shy of tying Tech’s longest streak in the series.
Except Georgia Tech goes on to win the ACC championship and earns a first-round bye into the new 12-team playoffs. They draw Texas and Ohio State in the quarter and semifinals and win both setting up a rematch in college football playoff with Georgia.
It appears Georgia will win its third title under Kirby but for a late kickoff return to score the upset for the Jackets. The streak is broken short of the 8-win record once again. The ACC dissolves in offseason but the SEC wants title contenders and leaves out FSU and invites GT back into the fold much to the objection of uga.