Some around Georgia Tech will hold up this loss as another of those one-play-away deals. Let’s dispense with such foolishness. To win this game, the Yellow Jackets needed to traverse 84 yards in 16 seconds without a timeout. (And without a passing game, to be frank.) If they were one play away, it was a harmonic convergence of a play – and Tech exhausted its quotient against Florida State.
Tech lost to Georgia 13-7. It was close, figuratively speaking, only because the Bulldogs are the least impressive 9-3 team in the history of humankind. A year after going 11-3 and winning the Orange Bowl, the Jackets are 3-9 and bound only for an offseason of Paul Johnson’s wrath, which can be considerable.