The games that would determine the national championship were two months away. It would be another couple of weeks before Georgia Tech even clinched the ACC.
But the moment Tech’s 1990 football season reached transcendence can easily be traced to Nov. 3, when a trip to Charlottesville, Va., produced something no team in the school’s long history had ever done: defeat a No. 1 team on the road.
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The Yellow Jackets did so the hard way. Twice, they fell behind the nation’s highest scoring program by two touchdowns, yielding 519 yards before somehow outscoring the Cavaliers 17-10 in the second half and giving a 19-year-old sophomore named Scott Sisson a chance to win the game with a 37-yard field goal with seven seconds to play.