The Preview of Questions Abounding: Georgia Tech vs. Virginia

by Winfield Featherston on Oct 8, 2010 12:00 PM EDT in Georgia Tech Football

Let's talk about the Virginia Cavaliers. ZIMA!ZIMA!ZIMA! haha

The game against Wake Forest was frustrating and questions continue to surround the football team, mainly starting with "W" and ending with"F?". Last year, the Jackets ran against the Cavaliers for over 400 yards and took over an entire quarter of time possession to slooowwwlly weeaarrr thhhee deeffense dooown. In 2008, the Cavaliers came to Atlanta during Homecoming and shocked us all for a win.

Questions loom: 1. How will Virginia act when they see their old coach? 2. What will Al Groh do when he sees his old team?

Answers have been talked about: 1. Players are motivated 2. Al Groh is a Georgia Tech man

We had a Q&A with Brendan from the UVA blog FFromOldVirginia. The most important question we needed to understand was what has Mike London done to the UVA football scheme and how it would affect the Georgia Tech attack.

London ditched Groh's 3-4 and switched to a 4-3. So the difference in scheme there will be night and day. It'll also be a lot smaller and quicker, which worries me against GT: I always felt like Groh's 3-4 with beefy, NFL-sized (though slower) players was the best counter to GT's triple option.

Now on to the intangibles....

Score Predictions:

Winfield: Another game like it's always been. Tech wins somehow 31-26

Bird:

Tweet Comment 5 comments | 0 recs |

Do you like this story?

Comments

At this point, I don't know what to expect or how to call it

We’ve seen 30-40 point showings, from both us as well as our opponents. We were recently handed a low scoring affair from the Wake game. At this point you could put a bunch of scores on a dart board, don a blindfold, and throw a dart and you’d probably have a pretty good chance of getting it right.

However, I’m sticking with my guns. Every week I’ve tried predicting the big break-out game we all want to believe this team is capable of, both offensively and defensively. I’m scared that game will never come and we are all going to be subjected to one helluva roller-coaster season, but I say we take UVA down to the tune of 42-17.

GO GT!

"Everybody talks about SEC speed. The 27 fastest guys at the (NFL) combine, how many of them were from the SEC? Three. But if you say it enough, everybody will believe it."
-CPJ

"You could spend the next fifteen seconds of your life watching a man and a tiger scream together, or you could be an idiot."
Fact.

by Jesse28 on Oct 8, 2010 12:08 PM EDT reply actions

rushed post.

Better to have died a small boy than to drop this football - John HeismanFromTheRumbleSeat

by Winfield Featherston on Oct 8, 2010 12:19 PM EDT reply actions

i have a good feeling about this game.

Mainly because I had a dream we stomped uva. Unfortunately it wasn’t so much because we were great but rather b/c they were horrible. They looked like a bunch of high schoolers. Again this was a dream, Haha, but I’ve had my GT dreams come true in the past. I’m hoping Anthony Allen has a big game, 150 yrs+

by ATLSpartan on Oct 8, 2010 1:55 PM EDT via mobile reply actions

Well

Looks like my dream was correct. Not only did we stomp them but anthony allen did have over 150 yards, 195 to be exact. Hope i have a similar dream every week.

by ATLSpartan on Oct 10, 2010 9:53 AM EDT via mobile up reply actions

It will be a devious and deceptive win

Look at how masterfully we won the Wake game. First we convinced them that our running game was not working. Then we convinced them that they could drive long distances against us to score. What we were really doing was letting them eat up the clock and time of possession which we were then going to turn in our favor. With mere minutes left we unleashed our furious passing attack which we had kept under raps just for such an occasion. It was masterful. We had them all the way. Likewise, CPJ will come up with another improbable way to win against a team that is dangerous and fully prepared. Heck, we might even fumble a few times just to get them overconfident. It’s in the bag.

by Atlanta's original team on Oct 8, 2010 4:28 PM EDT reply actions