Postgame Notes
Team Notes
- With the win, Georgia Tech evened its record at 3-3 on the season and moved to 2-1 in Atlantic Coast Conference play.
- Georgia Tech is alone in second place in the ACC Coastal Division standings, behind only first-place North Carolina (2-0 ACC).
- Paired with last Saturday’s 26-21 win at No. 24 Pitt, Georgia Tech has won consecutive games for the first time since back-to-back wins over Miami (27-21) and Virginia (30-27 in OT) on Nov. 10 and 17, 2018.
- Georgia Tech defeated Duke for the third-straight season, which is its longest winning streak in the series since the Yellow Jackets won 10-straight games against the Blue Devils from 2004-13.
- Georgia Tech moved to 53-35-1 all-time against Duke.
- Georgia Tech snapped a string of three-straight homecoming losses (2018, 2019 and 2021 – there was no homecoming game in 2020 due to the Covid-19 pandemic).
- Georgia Tech moved to 54-18-1 all-time in Tech homecoming games.
- Duke’s 20 points was a season low (prev.: 27 at Kansas – Sept. 24) and 15 below its season average of 35.0/game coming in to Saturday’s game.
- Duke’s 278 yards of total offense were also a season low (prev.: 377 vs. Virginia – last Saturday) and 166.2 below its average of 444.2/game coming in to Saturday’s game.
- Tech’s overtime win against Duke marked the first overtime victory since the Yellow Jackets defeated Miami on Oct. 19, 2019 (GT 28, MIA 21).
Individual Notes
- Georgia Tech interim head coach Brent Key became only the third Tech head coach in the last 55 years (since 1967) to win his first two games, joining Chan Gailey (2002) and Paul Johnson (2009). Prior to Gailey and Johnson, the last Tech head coach to win his first two games was Bud Carson in 1967.
- r-Fr. WR Leo Blackburn made his collegiate debut after missing the entire 2021 season and the first five games of the 2022 season due to injury. He caught three passes for 49 yards including a 37-yard touchdown reception in the third quarter that gave Georgia Tech a 17-3 lead.
- So. WR Nate McCollum set career highs for receptions (8) and receiving yards (101), topping his previous career bests of six receptions (twice – last at UCF – Sept. 24) and 55 yards (vs. Clemson – Sept. 5).
- McCollum’s 101 receiving yards marked his first career 100-yard game.
- With field goals of 22, 23 and 37 yards, So. PK Gavin Stewart became only the third Georgia Tech kicker since 2000 to make his first seven field goal attempts of a season, joining Wesley Wells (made his first nine attempts in 2018) and Scott Blair (nine in 2010).
- Fr. DB Clayton Powell-Lee became the first true freshman to start a game for Georgia Tech this season, making the start at free safety. He recorded 8 tackles in his first-career start.
- So. WR Ryan King set career highs with three receptions (prev.: 1 (twice) last vs. Ole Miss – Sept. 17) and 29 receiving yards (prev.: 9 vs. Ole Miss – Sept. 17).
- r-Fr. WR James BlackStrain made his first-career start.
