Week 11 brings Georgia Tech back into the spotlight, and ESPN’s FPI is not giving the Yellow Jackets much room to breathe against Louisville. The model pegs Georgia Tech at just a 12.3% chance to win on Saturday, a number that reflects where this team stands after the loss to Pittsburgh.
The Yellow Jackets have not looked like the group that had senior leadership driving things a season ago. This year has felt more like a reset, with new players stepping in and a different kind of leadership taking shape. That shift matters, especially now, with four games left and Brent Key trying to identify who he can lean on as Georgia Tech works through its current rut.
Key addressed that bigger picture in a lengthy explanation that went beyond football itself. “So, that's just one I'm sharing with you right now.
It's nothing to do with X's and O's or football or portal, but this has to do with a lot, right? Um, but in the moment, the 26 seniors are all in, but well, every one of them and so many of them have been here for three and four years. they deserve that opportunity to have say in things and it worked out great for but now you see kind of the back end of it right.
“There’s a lot of things small things that add up you know when you you know when one guy goes down or you have an injury and it becomes boom boom boom that becomes part of the the practice routines right there’s evaluation and portals there’s evaluation of coaches there’s evaluation of things and that’s why I like to answer your question like I did earlier
A lot of these things occurred very quickly and some of and a high percentage of them unknown last year, right? Unknown and timing that was not ideal, right?
So when you're thrown into the, you know, decision- making time and its roster, its coaching staff, both sides, it’s a lot of things moving at once. All right.
So all of those things have something to do with it. all of them. Like I said, I'm not going to sit here and blame all of it either .
I’m The accountability starts and stops with me. Thats my job,” said Key.
From a football standpoint, the projection lines up with what Georgia Tech has shown. The Yellow Jackets have been better at home at times, but Louisville brings one of the ACC’s strongest rushing attacks into this matchup. Georgia Tech has had trouble fitting gaps, tackling, and getting runners to the ground, and that’s a dangerous combination against a team built to punish those mistakes.
The challenge for Georgia Tech is simple: that problem has to be cleaned up fast. If not, Saturday could be another long afternoon.
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