Georgia Tech vs. UNC Tar Heels: the ACC Sanction Bowl
by BirdGT on Sep 23, 2011 8:00 AM EDT
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PrintThere are seven teams that have played Tech at least 3 times since 2008: Clemson, VPI, UVA, Duke, uga, Miami, and UNC. Of the seven, UNC has the second worst rushing yards allowed with 338 ypg. However, they're scoring defense has been the best by about one and half points at 20.3 ppg.
This Heel squad is no different than their Butch Davis contemporaries. In three games this year, the Heels have only allowed 16.3 ppg. The three opponents (despite poor offensive showings against the Heels) still have scoring offenses averaging over 30 ppg. And to me, the Heels squad is built around their veteran linebackers.
Zach Brown and Kevin Reddick remind me of the Tech duo Keyaron Fox and Daryl Smith. They are less heralded than Bruce Carter and Quan Sturdivant but are still tackling machines. The two have accounted for 32% of the Heels' 2011 tackles including 7 of the Heels' 20 TFL's.
The secondary has not played up to par, in my opinion, for the Heels. The secondary has 22 combined starts with a majority in Charles Brown's pocket (13). Most were rushed into active duty last season due to UNC's illicit affairs but were eventually supplanted by more talented and veteran starters. The Heel secondary has given up 4 TD's and around 230 passing ypg to start the season despite having one of the best pass rushes in the ACC.
Offensively, the Heels are very interesting. Only Texas Tech's Seth Doege and Baylor's Robert Griffin, III have a higher completion percentage than Bryn Renner. Renner is in the top 10 nationally with regards to passer efficiency as well. There should definitely be concerns with allowing UNC to start out hot like Kansas did last week because I don't see a pissed off UNC defense quitting in the second half like Kansas did.
Unfortunately, UNC is similar to Tech in that neither team has met a team comprable to the team they're facing this Saturday so it's tough to really gauge the quality of the teams. If I were a betting man, I'd take Tech. I feel like Tech has handled its mediocre competition with relative ease while UNC really struggled to put away two squads coming off 4 win seasons. I think the loss of Butch Davis literally cut the head off the snake that is UNC. I'm predicting some fourth quarter coaching blunders from the Heels with Tech winning a 35-24 type game.
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What would be hilarious
Is if CPJ comes out with his Hawai’i offense and throws all over them. Afterwards, during the post-game interview, he’ll say, “You can’t prepare for this, because you have no idea what I’ll do next.” Yeah, that’d be fairly awesome.
Either that or run over them in such a soul crushing way that the interim head coach resigns at the end of the first half. That’d work too. But that’s just me.
On a more serious note though, I think the only way UNC wins is by preventing the big plays and not going 3-n-out offensively more than two times. The only way to do that is to shed those initial blocks. The 2009 squad had problems with initial blocking and it cost us the Orange Bowl. This year it appears to not be a problem so we’ll see. If our defense gets a few stops, that could open the floodgates for this offense.
From The Rumble Seat -Drinkin' whiskey clear since 2008.
"You could spend the next fifteen seconds of your life watching a man and a tiger scream together, or you could be an idiot."
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Amen, brother.
As I have written before, what makes this offense really special is when the players start having total confidence in it. If we get up on North Carolina by a couple of touchdowns early the game will be over. It will be like sharks smelling blood in the water.
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