When Georgia Tech’s football team last walked out of Sun Life Stadium, it was shortly after the stroke of midnight on New Year’s Day. The Yellow Jackets had just vanquished Mississippi State, completing one of the most memorable seasons in school history.
The Jackets will return there this coming Saturday to play Miami. The experience portends to be strikingly dissonant, the vivid memories and good feeling derived from returning to the site of their conquest interwoven with the disappointment of Tech’s present reality.