Here’s how the FTRS staff thinks Tech will do against Miami!
Benjamin Tankersley
Miami wins 34-21.
I would love to say that Tech is going to pull off some kind of wild and crazy upset, or that something like last year will happen, but unfortunately, I just don’t know that it will. Miami is a very solid team, and Tech has been hot and cold all year. It’s my hope that the bye week was good for them, and they’ll come in ready to win. But I have not seen enough from them this year to think that they will win this game.
Jack Purdy
Miami wins 24-20
Each time we’ve played a solid QB (McCord, Shough), we’ve put ourselves in position to be within striking distance of winning, but through our own self-destruction haven’t actually pulled away with a win. Cam Ward is in this tier of QBs, and very well could be the Heisman winner this year along with Ashton Jeanty. I want to believe that the defensive effort we saw against Virginia Tech (without Kyle Efford I might add) was a sign of progress and not a fluke. We likely won’t look that good defensively, but give me 80% of that and either a Philo or King led offense should be able to put up some points to make this a fight.
Logan Sandor
Miami probably wins comfortably, lets say 42-31
I think most everyone expects Miami to win. Frankly, Miami winning by a fair margin is the most likely outcome. I could give you another summary of why we aren’t in the best position to win, but what would be the fun in that? Let’s look at some scenarios that we could win in.
The Offensive Scenario, Georgia Tech wins 45-41
I think the most likely is possibility for us to win is that King comes back and is able to turn the game into a shootout. In this case I would expect the game to look similar to our homecoming against UNC last year. We might be behind for a period but both sides consistently score and the game comes down to either a lucky turnover or whoever has better ball control at the end of the game. GT has a good a powerful running offense, so maybe if we get the ball at the end we can hold onto it long enough to win the game.
The Defensive/Turnover Scenario, Georgia Tech wins 21-19
The defense manages to bend but not break and gets some stops in the redzone when the field shrinks. That combined with some weird turnovers (fumbles, missed FGs, tips in the air becoming interceptions) give us the ball enough times to score while maintaining ball control and we barely scrape out enough points to win a low scoring game.
The Ugly Scenario, Georgia Tech wins 34-27
This is my least favorite one, but it does happen sometimes in college football. Cam Ward gets injured. Miami is able to stay in the game because of their overall talent, but without Cam Ward the Hurricanes have the wind knocked from their sails which leads to them falling behind and being unable to make a comeback. I don’t want this one to happen because I don’t want people getting injured, but it’s happened before to teams. Heck it nearly happened to us against UNC. There is another version of this scenario where Cam Ward simply has the worst game of his career, but that one is even less likely.
Do I think any of those scenarios are likely? Not really, but we’ve seen plenty of unlikely things happen with this team and in the ACC in general. We’ll see what happens out there.