Georgia Bulldogs at Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets

-= Related: Mark Richt: Does He Have to Beat Tech to Stay? The game also airs as a live stream online. “It kind of started off that drive for us to run off (two minutes)”. I think even people around here are probably already counting us out.

Richt haters, you can insert your joke here.

Only one year removed from winning 11 games and the Orange Bowl, Georgia Tech coach Paul Johnson hasn’t faced as much heat as Georgia coach Mark Richt. Georgia Tech’s only wins this season have come against Alcorn State, Tulane and Florida State. Heck, Georgia people during any decade would have committed a felony for any sort of win over the North Avenue Trade School. Georgia Tech wound up playing 23 freshmen this season, and the offense typically had six on the field together by the end of the season. Tech didn’t score until 3:24 left in the contest that made it 13-7. That’s the exact same record against Kentucky and Vanderbilt.

Richt said he has no angst about his job security and said “the Lord is in charge of everything”. “It’s nice to have it back behind our glass”. Two plays later, the Yellow Jackets hit pay dirt on a flag route to cut the Georgia lead to 13-7.

Asked if he would like to hear from McGarity before talking to more recruits, Richt said “I don’t need any clarity right now”. “We have a hard time valuing the ball”.

“We want fans to be excited about Georgia football and when we don’t win, they hurt”, he said.

The Dawgs have won four in a row and each game went exactly the same way. What Thomas went through in the Georgia game was a summary of what he went through the entire season.

They did and they did.

“This is our first chance in a nationally-televised game to show what we’re made of”.

Ganus upped his team-leading tackles to 96 after topping all Bulldogs with 12 Saturday.

“A microcosm of our season”, Johnson moaned. This year, he passed for 1,345 yards and rushed for 488.

Yellow Jackets quarterback Justin Thomas threw two interceptions, a bad one at the 1-yard line in the second quarter and one to end the game, and wide receiver Ricky Jeune lost a fumble. “I don’t know they played Georgia Southern pretty good”.

Though not nationally-touted after losing 2014-2015 underclassmen Bobby Portis and Michael Qualls to the NBA draft and two senior starters from last season to graduation – plus the incumbent starting point guard still fulfilling a semester-long disciplinary suspension – part of the national college basketball spotlight nonetheless shines upon the Arkansas Razorbacks on Thanksgiving and Black Friday. They were 79th and 114th last season.

The difference ended up being UGA running back Sony Michel’s ability to break big plays that got the Bulldogs into plus-territory. “God Bless the Georgia Bulldogs“.

Georgia out-possessed its run-heavy opponent by a 31:18-to-28:42 margin and forced three turnovers in the contest.