Friday, September 23, 2005

Biggest game of the last 15 years???

First of all, Scott...we got your back and readers can count on a quality halftime report as well as game summary. They can also count on a happy Scott next week.

In addition to your ESPN Gameday gametime predictions posted to Scott's call for predictions below, I'd like to hear from Jacket Nation about this upcoming game. Is it as big as it seems to me? In case you can't get your head around it, here are the two possible outcomes:

Desired outcome:
ACC Coastal
1. Georgia Tech 4-0, 2-0
2. Virginia Tech 3-1, 2-1

We vault into the top ten (five?) and have two weeks of hypothetically beatable (ha!) opponents in NCSU and Dook prior to the showdown in Coral Gables. Potentially 6-0. Wow.

Alternative outcome:

ACC Coastal
1. Virginia Tech 4-0, 3-0
2. Georgia Tech 3-1, 1-1

We drop out of the top-25 BUT have two weeks of hypothetically beatable (ha!) opponents in NCSU and Dook prior to the showdown in Coral Gables. In other words, we SHOULD be at least 5-1 heading in to play Miami. That'll get us back into the hunt for the ACC Coastal race.

Anyone who has been watching Georgia Tech football for the last 20 years knows that there is no debate about the biggest game of the last 20: UVA-GT in 1990, the game that put us in the national title hunt and ultimately put us on the field against Nebraska. Will we look back on this weekend as a turning point, or as another chance to say that we're a "middle of the pack" team in the ACC? Can you think of another huge game in Tech football in the last 20 years? An FSU game? One of the U(sic)GA victories that came out of the blue?

GO JACKETS and good luck to Reggie and Taylor!