(10-18-2021 02:37 PM)georgia_tech_swagger Wrote:  

(10-18-2021 10:15 AM)ken d Wrote:  Over the past 20 seasons, Tech's record against rival Georgia is 3-16 (they didn't play in the 2020 COVID year). That's a deep hole to start out from. Against Clemson they were 7-13, with only 2 of those wins in the last decade. The hole's not getting smaller.

Their regular season record against other FBS OOC opponents was 25-13, but only 8-10 since 2011. Against current conference opponents other than Clemson, the Jackets were 43-27 from 2001 to 2010, and 38-33 since then. Against current Coastal Division teams they were 52-46. They have done better against the Atlantic Division (29-14), but they now get only one such crossover game a year other than Clemson.

With Georgia and Clemson on the schedule every year and Notre Dame every third year, the Jackets may need to schedule two pretty sure FBS OOC wins a year and they haven't been doing that lately.

Georgia's heights are in part due to PJ surrendering recruiting wholesale. The lion's share of that ugly record is 0-fer Chan Gailey's work of dropping the ball handed to him from O'Leary. Gailey was a bad hire in the first place, and indicative of where things were headed for the next 15 years under poor leadership at AD from Dave Braine(less), the eventual author of the now infamous Paul Hewitt contract.

Rome wasn't built in a day. The Queen Mary doesn't turn on a dime. GT is definitely on the up. I think we are seeing the beginning of the end of a UGAg golden age that was ultimately sparked by realignment shielding UGAg from being in the same division as the SEC powers more often than not. Courtesy of Texahoma, UGAg is about to welcome Bama to the SEC East.

It's sounding more and more like you are going to get the attack of the POD Dawgs.

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