Georgia Tech’s schedule won’t slow down, but at least the next stop is now locked in.
The Yellow Jackets’ Week Eight matchup against Boston College, which also serves as homecoming, will kick off at 3:30 p.m. ET next Saturday. The game will air on the ACC Network, and it will be the third straight 3:30 kickoff for Georgia Tech.
That announcement comes as Georgia Tech heads into this week’s trip to Blacksburg, VA, to take on Virginia Tech. It’s not exactly a marquee ACC showdown, but both teams need something out of it. The Yellow Jackets are trying to keep the momentum from their home win over Duke, while the Hokies are looking to stop a skid after back-to-back losses.
Georgia Tech’s win over Duke raised the obvious question: was it the start of something real, or just another unpredictable ACC Saturday? The answer, at least for now, sits somewhere in the middle. The Yellow Jackets showed improvement and played a cleaner game, but one win doesn’t suddenly change the entire picture.
Brent Key made that clear after the game, stressing that the work still has to happen every day.
"Yeah, look, we've got to come to work every day. But when you win, it's a lot easier to come back in and have the energy and enthusiasm, right?
We've had a hard two weeks. We've had a hard two weeks.
Everybody's programmed from the top to almost at the bottom, but everyone else. From, you know, on the hill, the presidents, to the administration, the AD.
I mean, it's everybody. We all feel this, right?
And we needed that today. It's a lot easier to come into work and do the things you have to do and to do your job. when you have that so i'll just clean up mistakes when you have that.
Yeah, we needed it. And that was one of the things I talked to them about was, this was last Tuesday, two Tuesdays ago, I guess.
We came back from the first Tuesday of the bye week. I said, look, man, guys, you guys all want to win.
I know it. But we've got to stop sitting around and doing the things that lose games.
We've got to learn how to stop losing the game before we can ever win. And now it kind of propels you.
And now there's belief, there's confidence. But, again, I go back to all those different things.
What I go back to is we played together as a team. We played together as a team, and that goes a long way."
For Georgia Tech, the next two weeks are about turning that into something more. First comes Virginia Tech, then Boston College at 3:30 p.m. ET on ACC Network.
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