Triple option football announced its arrival at Georgia Tech with a 9–4 season in 2008, the program’s best finish since 2000. Now that the mind behind it won’t be directing the Yellow Jackets beyond this season, the option may be phased out with less of a flourish.
Paul Johnson announced on Wednesday that he was stepping away after a 7–5 regular season, the 61-year-old’s eleventh as Georgia Tech’s head coach. Johnson’s exit plan had been the subject of years of speculation, but on the heels of a late-season surge by the Yellow Jackets, who were 3–4 in mid-October before ripping off a four-game winning streak in conference play, the public doom and gloom had cooled off.