While it was nothing to turn up a nose at, in many ways, 1953 was a disappointment after the heights of the previous years’ teams. The Yellow Jackets were still bowl-bound, still highly regarded, yet there really wasn’t much for them to do than to accept what they did get, losses and all, and hit the ground running again the next year. So they did that.
To most modern Tech fans, and college football fans in general, it seems to rarely dawn on them the true height of Georgia Tech football under Bobby Dodd in the 1950s.