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I got asked by some subs to do this so let's dive in. I'm trying to be honest as of 7/23/23. My GT pick is sort of all the breaks going GT's way. This is likely my predicted order of finish that I'll have to vote on at the ACC Kickoff on Tuesday.

I'll go team by team and game by game

Ranking the teams by how I see them finishing

Clemson 11-1
wins- Duke, Charleston Southern, FAU, FSU, Cuse, WAke, Miami, NC State, GT, UNC, South Carolina
Loss- Notre Dame

FSU 10-2
wins- Southern Miss, BC, VT, Cuse, Duke, Wake, Pitt, Miami, North Alabama, Florida
losses- LSU, Clemson

NC State 9-3
wins- UConn, VMI, UVA, Marshall, Duke, Miami, Wake, VT, UNC
losses- ND, Louisville, Clemson

Pitt 9-3
wins- Wofford, Cincinnati, WV, VT, Louisville, Wake, Cuse, BC, Duke
losses- UNC, ND, FSU

Miami 8-4 (they could easily go 5-7 or 10-2)
wins- Miami (OH), Texas A&M, Bethune-Cookman, Temple, GT, UVA, Louisville, BC
losses- UNC, Clemson, Louisville, FSU

Louisville 8-4
wins- GT, Murray State, Indiana, BC, NC State, Duke, VT, UVA
losses- Notre Dame, Pitt, Miami, Kentucky

North Carolina 8-4 (same as Miami they should win 10 games and they could go as low as 5-6 wins)
wins- App State, Minnesota, Pitt, Cuse, Miami, UVA, Campbell, Duke
losses- South Carolina, GT, Clemson, NC State

Georgia Tech 7-5 (this is sort of my best-case scenario other than if they beat Louisville)
wins- SC State, Wake, Bowling Green, BC, UNC, UVA, Cuse
losses- Louisville, Ole Miss, Miami, Clemson, UGA

BC- 6-6
wins- NIU, Holy Cross, UVA, Army, UConn, VT,
losses- FSU, Louisville, GT, Cuse, Pitt, Miami

Duke 5-7
wins- Lafayette (FCS), Northwestern, UConn, Virginia, Wake
losses- Clemson, Notre Dame, NC State, FSU, Louisville, UNC, Pitt

Wake Forest 5-7 (they could be a swing team up or down like GT)
wins- Elon, Vanderbilt, Old Dominion, VaTech, Cuse
losses- GT, Clemson, Pitt, FSU, Duke, NC State, Notre Dame

Syracuse 5-7
wins- Colgate, Western Michigan, Army, VT, BC
losses- Purdue, Clemson, UNC, FSU, Pitt, GT, Wake

VaTech 3-9
wins- Old Dominion, Marshall, Virginia
losses- Purdue, Rutgers, Pitt, FSU, Wake, Cuse, Louisville, BC, NC State

Virginia 2-10 (I don't feel confident in picking two wins)
wins- James Madison, William & Mary
losses- Tennessee, Maryland, NC State, BC, UNC, Miami, GT, Louisville, Duke, VT


The ACCCG would be a rematch between Clemson and FSU

My questions for our Wake site.

Nephew getting married in Tennesssee today at 4:30 pm central. The bride’s family is super religious, the Dad is a Baptist pastor and doing the service. The reception is dry. I will have a cooler and a tablet in the truck and will disappear from the reception a lot. Grrrrrrrr.

Currently 2-2
Next week: VS the great State of Bowling Green

Last week’s results:

I'm going with GT 38 WF 34.

Trying to decide what to do for the game. Was thinking about maybe my smoked chili. Maybe a chili dog or two. I have some smoked chicken and pulled pork left over from last weekend in the freezer. Could do some brunswick stew.

My brief search shows that, of course, the more rain during a game the less scoring. So bet the under.

Help me convince myself that this can be a good thing for GT.

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LOL UVa gets unsportsmanlike on 2pt for an 18 yarder 2 pt. Get it on a Hail Mary.

Then unsportsmanlike on successful 2pt try:

21-21

With some really good highlights from his performance in front of Rivals recently against Savannah Christian-
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Making my first trip to Winston-Salem this weekend. Who all is planning to make the trip? Any recommendations for pre-game/tailgating?

Ethan Mackenny - 3
Eric Singleton - 3
Evan Dickens - 3
Nacari Ashley - 2
Jacob Cruz - 2
Bailey Stockton - 2
Ashton Heflin - 1
Taye Seymore - 1


Patrick Screws - 0
Gabe Fortson - 0
Zion Taylor- 0
Benjamin Galloway - 0
Elias Cloy - 0
Shymeik Jones - 0
Ezra Odinjor - 0
Nico Dowdell - 0
Steven Jones - 0
Bryston Dixon - 0
Malcolm Pugh - 0

Cool idea

Got some friends coming in from London to hang out and trying to get tickets to the NLDS game 1 on Saturday Oct, 7th. Tried like hell to get them this morning but no luck. If any of you gentlemen have 3 you're looking to part with, I'd be interested. Looking for 100 level, outfield, or chop house Terrance. Thanks in advance and go Braves/Jackets!

Here are a few gifs i decided to breakdown to give an idea of what happened on field vs. Ole Miss. These are used to give others a different perspective on how to watch football. I don’t do this to disparage players or coaches, but to give insight to GT enthusiast on what I’ve learned as a player and avid football fan.

Tale of 2 sides: Good offense and bad, low effort defense.



Just bad defense. We can’t get lined up and get outflanked to the field side. #13 Moala is outta position. If he’s the MLB, the Mike and Nickel are always next to each other in a 4-2-5. So we are a man short for the run, the DE gets washed down and our nickel back dives off the diving board. Not a good way to start the game





Good offense- running inside zone. Look at how the OL pushed Ole Miss DL down the field and look how many yards Cooley went being untouched. Hole so big you can drive a Geep thru it


Bad defense- easy math here. Spread them out and count the box. 5v5 = QB draw. Would assume #44 is assigned this backside A gap but he’s engaged to with the TE. This is so painful to
Watch from #14 King. He Looks like he is struggling to run and also appears he assumed that a tackle would be made. Poor angles by
all the secondary players




Again, we appear lost at the at the LB position. Split zone by Ole Miss. #13 Moala instead of flowing to the run, inexplicable follows the TE as if he has him in Man2man which takes him out of the play as the unblocked defender. Poor angle by King again



So far the RPO game has been amazing for us and has yielded some big gains. When you are running the ball well it sucks up the LBs and leaves options open to exploit


A throw Haynes probably wishes he could have back. Nice run route concept vs. man. This ball must be out front and maybe lower so only Blaylock can only make a play on it



Smh. Play is doomed from the start. Blitzer blitzes late and is ineffective. The CB gets too far inside and loses leverage allowing the RB to get the edge. LB gets leg whipped to the ground and Brooks hesitant to use that shoulder to tackle


The game plan of Faulkner and crew was really good. They knew what exactly to expect from Goldings defense and good plays to attack with. Here is missed opportunity. The chemistry btw King and Singleton appears to be really good but Haynes locked onto him and missed the TE here for an easy TD. Still almost a great catch here

Let’s do this. Resetting my router on my wifi so may be a minute but I’ll go for a while.

At the end I will answer my mailbag questions that I missed earlier in the week.

Go go go

Greetings, I had a blast in the Grove with many GT fans and quite a few former players. I got to hear some tremendous Geoff Collins stories from some recently graduated players as well—wild stuff.

It lived up to the hype in every way.

Figured I would start this thread off as I have noticed a lot of music afficanados and players on the forum aside from our own @Kelly Quinlan . I too play and enjoy good tunes! Let's share and enjoy some good stories!

Currently playing:
1968 Gibson Melody maker via 1936 Gibson EH-100 amp for practice. Love these old amps too! Hand wired and you can create overdrive simply by playing harder on the strings. All about some good tone! Will see if I can get some pics up as well!!! Let's go!!!

Finished up practice today and they are looking forward to playing a very disciplined Wake Forest team in all three phases. They are banged up coming out of the Ole Miss but they have to push through that and that is what is football is. Who has player availability and who is mentally tough and can push through and practice.

"There is a respect level for the game of football you have to have and all part of football. When you love the game of football you love all the parts of the game not just after the game. I mean you've got to love the process, you've got to love practice and you've got to love preparation and the blood, sweat and tears that go into it. You have to push through and overcome adversity and you've got to sustain. I don't think we did a great job of that as a team. We have certain positions that did not practice the way I expected yesterday. It was addressed and it has been addressed last night and addressed this morning on the field and we got to rebound from it. I'm not happy. I'm not excited. I'm not going to kiss the crack of their butts and tell them how good they are. Because right now, we are going into a dogfight to play a dang good football team and our team better understand that."

Key said the team responded today, but you can't have lulls and down days. This week comes around and there are midterms and guys have different things going on, but that is why you are at Georgia Tech because you can handle both. You can do those things and not make an excuse for one way or the other. There was the mental toughness that I expect out of this team in certain positions I don't think we showed it this week, but the good thing is I addressed it last night and I addressed it this morning as opposed to sitting around and keeping it to myself and not saying anything. I won't wake up on Sunday morning and say I should've said this or that. When I say things they are black and white. They are going to be black and white. It doesn't matter if it is the players, the coaches or you guys in the media, I'm going to tell you straight up the way it is. That's the only way to live. To come in here and have sunshine and rainbows and all those things I would be giving a false message to our football team.

On the slow mesh, every offense has its intricacies and you have to show discipline in your preparation for it.

We love pressure and we want pressure and that allows us to rise to the occasion. You want that as coaches, offense and defense and that is what separates good teams and bad teams. You want 4th and 4 to score a touchdown and I'm going to be aggressive. That's my mindset and that is the team's mindset. I want this team to be aggressive and aggressive minded and go out and play aggressive. There is nothing passive about this game. I want guys that love the pressure and that like to be in that spotlight. For three games, I think the offense has rose to that occasion. We need more guys to come around with them. The great ones want the one-on-ones and the ball thrown to them in those positions and the great ones want the running back to run behind them. They want to be the QB with the ball last. They want to be a CB in tight one-on-one in the red area. The only way to prepare for that is practicing in pressure situations and there needs to be pressure from the coaches and pressure from the way we go about practice. You have to put pressure on yourself. You don't want the game to be bigger than the week or practices and we structure practices a certain way to narrow that gap as much as we can. Individual players need to put that pressure on themselves too.

On Mitch Griffis, that's who we've studied, schematically we looked back at some Sam Hartman tape.

Chase Lane will travel this week and he would be an emergency WR this week. They look forward to him getting back as a full go soon.

Etinosa Reuben is fine, Malik Rutherford is another that was limited a little bit on Sunday, but he has been a full go since. He didn't respond to Dontae or forgot to answer that part.

On the Wake pass rush, he said some of the GT runs were draws last week with King and they gave up only three pressures last week and two came from the freshman LT Ethan Mackenny and Key joked he weighed way more than Mackenny who made a freshman mistake on one of those. There are going to be pressures at times. The OL has improved as much as anyone on the team, but it is a week-to-week thing and it is what have you done lately. Turn on the tape and they lead the country in sacks and TFLs, they do a great job schematically and individually.

Key said his challenge to the OL is what do they do after they get beat. The five OLs have a lot of pride in protecting the QB and they work their tails off every day. Credit to Geep Wade, he has done an outstanding job with those guys and having a new guy in Connor Scaglione and a true freshmen LT and to get those guys playing together as one in a short amount of time.