Tech football had performed just above expectations entering their third game of the season. No sane analyst would have picked Tech to beat Clemson, but the Jackets managed to squeak out a victory against a USF team on roughly equal footing. Entering last Saturday, an even record was an above-average outcome for a Jackets team predicted by many to be the worst team in the ACC Coastal. Then the roof fell in, and Tech lost to its first non-FBS opponent in over three decades.
There is no sugarcoating the fact that, as bad as Tech was forecast to be, they should have won.