Weekly records watch
From esteemed colleague Matt Dempsey:
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A big win over Virginia keeps Tech in the race for the ACC Coastal Division title. Plus big numbers from the big guns keeps them on the march to the record books. Let’s see how they stand with four more games to go.
Rushing Records
Most rushes in a season
Name Rushes Year
1. Tashard Choice 297 2006
2. P.J. Daniels 283 2003
3. Joe Burns 282 2001
4. Robert Lavette 280 1982
5. Eddie Lee Ivery 267 1978
6. Tashard Choice 261 2007
7. Robert Lavette 260 1984
8. Jerry Mays 249 1989
9. C.J. Williams 245 1995
10. Lenny Snow 202 1966
NR Josh Nesbitt 172 2009
With four games left to go, it’s hard to see how Nesbitt won’t end up in the top 10 for most rushes in a season. If he averages 24 carries a game the rest of the way, he’ll end up in the top five.
Most rushes, Career
Name Rushes Career
1. Robert Lavette 914 1981-84
2. P.J. Daniels 707 2002-05
3. Jerry Mays 695 1985-89
4. Tashard Choice 675 2005-07
5. Joe Burns 614 1998-01
6. Eddie Lee Ivery 609 1975-78
7. C.J. Williams 539 1994-95
8. Joe Hamilton 501 1996-99
9. Reggie Ball 495 2003-06
10. Lenny Snow 445 1965-67
12. Jonathan Dwyer 406 2007-
13. Josh Nesbitt 397 2007-
Nesbitt and Dwyer are still on pace for being in the top 10 on the career rushes list.
Dwyer needs 40 rushes in the next five games to unseat Lenny Snow from the top ten. Twenty two carries in the next four games will push Dwyer past Reggie Ball.
Rushing Yards, Season
Name Yards Year
1. Eddie Lee Ivery 1562 1978
2. Tashard Choice 1473 2006
3. P.J. Daniels 1447 2003
4. Jonathan Dwyer 1395 2008
5. Tashard Choice 1379 2007
6. Jerry Mays 1349 1989
7. Robert Lavette 1208 1982
8. Robert Lavette 1189 1984
9. Joe Burns 1165 2001
10. C.J. Williams 1138 2009
NR Jonathan Dwyer 718 2009
NR Josh Nesbitt 707 2009
Dwyer’s big game against Virginia makes his path to a second top 10 rushing season a bit easier. He’ll need about 105 yards a game for the rest of the season to unseat C.J. Williams and join Tashard Choice and Robert Lavette as the only players with two season in the top ten list.
Nesbitt was under the 103 yards a game average he needed to be in top 10 at season’s end. Eighty two yards isn’t bad though. He now needs 108 yards per game to finish the season in the top ten.
Rushing Yards, Career
Name Yards Career
1. Robert Lavette 4066 1981-84
2. Jerry Mays 3699 1985-89
3. Eddie Lee Ivery 3517 1975-78
4. Tashard Choice 3365 20005-07
5. P.J. Daniels 3346 2002-05
6. Joe Burns 2634 1998-01
7. Jonathan Dwyer 2549 2007-
8. C.J. Williams 2365 1994-96
9. David Sims 2274 1974-76
10. William Bell 2026 1989-93
15. Josh Nesbitt 1739 2007-
Dwyer is likely to pass Joe Burns for the #6 spot on the career rushing list with a good performance against Vanderbilt. Nesbitt just needs 288 yards to end up in the top ten. With 134 yards per game in the last four games he’ll be in the top nine. A tougher chore for sure.
Most rushing touchdowns, season
Name TD Year
1. Robert Lavette 19 1982
2. Robert Lavette 14 1984
2. Joe Burns 14 2001
4. Sean Gregory 13 1999
5. Jonathan Dwyer 12 2008
5. Tashard Choice 12 2006
5. Joe Burns 12 2000
5. C.J. Williams 12 1995
5. Lenny Snow 12 1966
10. Tony Hollings 11 2002
10 Josh Nesbitt 11 2009
Nesbitt’s two touchdowns against Virginia gave him a top 10 season for rushing touchdowns. Three more trips to the end zone will equal Dwyer’s touchdown total from last year. Five touchdowns in four games will land him in the top two.
Most Rushing Touchdowns, Career
Name TD Year
1. Robert Lavette 45 1981-84
2. Joe Burns 31 1998-01
3. Tashard Choice 28 2005-07
4. Jonathan Dwyer 26 2007-
5. P.J. Daniels 23 2002-05
6. Eddie Lee Ivery 22 1975-78
6. Leon Hardeman 22 1951-53
8. David Sims 21 1974-76
9. C.J. Williams 20 1994-96
10. Shawn Jones 19 1989-92
12 Josh Nesbitt 18 2007-
Dwyer needs two more touchdowns to join Tashard Choice, Joe Burns and Robert Lavette in the top three. The top two is in reach. Nesbitt should easily reach the top 10 and might reach the top 5. Five more times crossing the goal line will give him a top 5 career for rushing touchdowns.
Receiving Records
Pass Receptions, Career
Name Number Career
1. Kelly Campbell 195 1998-01
2. Calvin Johnson 178 2004-06
3. Jonathan Smith 174 2000-03
4. Kerry Watkins 171 1999-02
5. Harvey Middleton 165 1994-97
6. Will Glover 122 1999-02
7. Bobby Rodriguez 115 1989-92
7. Jerry Mays 115 1985-89
9. Robert Lavette 114 1981-84
10. John Sias 110 1966-68
11. Demaryius Thomas 104 2007-
Thomas now owns the 11th spot thanks to his three catches last Saturday.
Yards gained, Season
Name Yards Season
1. Calvin Johnson 1202 2006
2. Jonathan Smith 1138 2003
3. Kelly Campbell 1105 1999
4. Kerry Watkins 1050 2002
5. Dez White 973 1998
6. Kelly Campbell 963 2000
7. John Sias 902 1968
8. Calvin Johnson 888 2005
9. Dez White 860 1999
10. Harvey Middleton 839 1997
14 Demaryius Thomas 747 2009
If Thomas averages 23 yards a game the rest of the way, he’ll also end up in the top ten for most receiving yards in a season.
Yards gained, career
Name Yards Career
1. Calvin Johnson 2927 2004-06
2. Kelly Campbell 2907 1998-01
3. Kerry Watkins 2680 1999-02
4. Harvey Middleton 2291 1994-96
5. Jonathan Smith 2238 2000-03
6. Demaryius Thomas 1932 2007-
With four games to go, Thomas will need 77 yards a game the rest of the way to move up the Career Receiving Yards record and into the top five.
Defense Records
Sacks, Season
Name Number Year
1. Pat Swilling 15 1985
2. Coleman Rudolph 13 1991
3. Greg Gathers 13 2000
4. Marco Coleman 12.5 1990
5. Eric Henderson 11 2003
6. Marco Coleman 10 1991
7. Felipe Claybrooks 10 1998
7. Greg Gathers 10 2001
9. Coleman Rudolph 9.5 1992
10. Michael Johnson 9 2008
10. Jesse Tarplin 9 1998
10. Nick Rogers 9 2000
NR Derrick Morgan 8.5 2009
Derrick Morgan is quite close to entering the top ten for sacks in a season. One more sack in the next four games and he’ll be tied with Coleman Rudolph for the ninth spot.
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109 comments Add your comment
Mike Litoris
October 29th, 2009
11:13 am
That dumbazz fleabag with the learner’s permit has had it seven years and still hasn’t learned. Maybe it was because he’d never driven a car he hadn’t jacked.
bb
October 29th, 2009
11:15 am
Gt4ever,
While I generally agree that our defense doesn’t seem to be of championship caliber. It really depends on who you play. For example, Alabama has no offense, so if we somehow get matched up against them our defense may be good enough. Lots of stuff can happen.
Also, our defense is as good as any in the country when they are standing on the sideline (as they seem to spend more and more time doing lately). It seems a good offense may be the best defense (to put a different spin on an old phrase).
johnny weissmuller
October 29th, 2009
11:19 am
Dawg Nation
Welcome back to a .500 program in T-minus 2 days
Tech82
October 29th, 2009
11:24 am
cj – Yeah, it’s a shame we don’t have an exciting offense like UGA’s. Maybe if we did, we could have that exciting 4-4 record they will be enjoying after Saturday’s thumping. Understand this – bowls would rather have teams that win in boring fashion than teams who lose. Period.
GO JACKETS! THWG!
garcia
October 29th, 2009
11:28 am
I know that he is not a serious candidate, but should JN be considered for the Heisman? It can be argued that he is the most valuable player for his team this season.
Before someone has a thrombo, I realize that Josh is not the best football player in college. He is not even in the top twenty. But, imagine the Jackets without him.
Peach Fuzz
October 29th, 2009
11:29 am
Vinnie Cerrato last seen landing at ATL Maynard Jackson airport in Dan Snyder’s private jet to meet with CPJ-i think DJ Shockley could run the offense perfectly in DC next year
Peach Fuzz
October 29th, 2009
11:32 am
can you chop block in the NFL?
Pi$$onaDawg
October 29th, 2009
11:53 am
Peach you can’t CHOP block in peewee, Pop Warner, High School, College, or the NFL, but you can CUT BLOCK in High School, College, and the NFL within the rules determining the Distance from the Line-o-schremage. READ and Learn.
Matt Dempsey
October 29th, 2009
11:53 am
Sorry all for the bonehead mistake on the division thing. I knew that it was Coastal, must have mixed it up when I was pulling the numbers on Monday.
Also, I’m looking at regular season games only for now because I still don’t know for sure how many games Tech will be playing before their season is over. I know they’ll have the bowl game for sure and while it’s extremely likely they will play in the ACC Championship, until it’s locked up I don’t want to count it. (Let’s say I don’t want to jinx it) Once they have the Coastal division locked up, I’ll include it and the bowl game in the numbers.
Finally, I know it’s about wins for the program and for the fans. I just thought some of you might enjoy seeing how prolific the current Tech stars are in relation to the records. I’m glad some of you like the feature.
Pi$$onaDawg
October 29th, 2009
11:54 am
SORRy Srimmage.
Pi$$onaDawg
October 29th, 2009
11:57 am
SCRIMMAGE damn I can’t type
superDawg
October 29th, 2009
12:18 pm
macro I pick tek to win this saturday.
superDawg
October 29th, 2009
12:20 pm
poad you should stop chopping on your key board it is illegal.
superDawg
October 29th, 2009
12:23 pm
macro I pick UF to win.
snellville jacket
October 29th, 2009
12:38 pm
It is good to see the records being set, however seems unfair to the players who played at a time when they could only play three years no freshman players on varisty. Maybe need separate records or to average based on games played.
Where would Clint Castleberry be?
macrotech
October 29th, 2009
2:59 pm
superDawg, don’t you DARE!!!
Art
October 29th, 2009
5:24 pm
Tech82 those bowls don’t particularly like teams that take 38-3 butt kickings either. Doesn’t look good when all 25 GT fans leave pizzed off at the half.
Art
October 29th, 2009
5:25 pm
Enter your comments here
GT9
October 29th, 2009
5:43 pm
GT4ever,
I don’t know what you base your statement on, but Johnson has brought some excellent football players to GT. Some are red-shirted and some are getting a lot of playing time. Every single player on the roster is not a Gailey recruit.
I agree that we don’t have a top 10 defense and it’s way too early to even think NC’s. When we get 42 minutes of possession, we only need a top 25 defense.
Beat Vanderbilt.
Johnny Test
October 29th, 2009
5:57 pm
Records are made to be lied about….. GT has one AP National title (split with Colorado) UGA has one AP National Title. In 1942 the DAWGs had the best record in the country at 10 and 1 but OHIO STATE( at 9 and 1) was awarded the NC (due to northeast sports writer bias) and the Dawgs finished 2nd. Tech was ranked 2nd and the Dawgs 5th when they played that year. The Dawgs won 34 to 0. Where are your other three NCs???
Art
October 29th, 2009
5:57 pm
So why don’t you identify some of those “excellent” football players from those #49 and #52 recruiting classes? But we’ll see won’t we? When Gailey’s skill players are gone there will be a substantial degradation of that offense.
Art
October 29th, 2009
6:07 pm
I would love to see GT in a BCS bowl with Alabama. Saban’s D would embarrass GT in the neighborhood of…..38-3.
NC2008
October 29th, 2009
6:18 pm
If a NC isn’t won on the field, #1 against #2 it can’t be considered a legitimate NC.
Yellow Kool Aid
October 29th, 2009
6:21 pm
That’s not fair NC2008. If you have to use that formula GT has probably never won a NC.
PN
October 29th, 2009
8:03 pm
Art, first of all, you are a stereotypical tard. More importantly however is that you are embarrassing yourself. Honestly, go burn yourself. Your team is not capable of beating this offense…even standard offenses at that, so you make tardy claims about OTHER teams defenses against this offense. Hahahahaha. I love it so much. You guys are desperate. I have been saying for weeks how I don’t care about the UGA game so long as we win a BCS bowl. F it. I hope we slice your F’ing jugulars repeatedly. You’re on the radar tard factory.
Art
October 29th, 2009
8:39 pm
My team PN? And just who is my team dumbazz? You sound like some 12 year old juvey blogging during computer hour at the local Youth Detention Center. And by the way you are the stereotypical panty wearing punk. Go blow your boyfriend sissy boy.
Dan
October 29th, 2009
8:41 pm
Art you better be scared. You’re on some little Tech girl’s radar. LMAO!! PN I bet you can’t take your boyfriends panties off your head without help.
Frank V.
October 29th, 2009
8:47 pm
If GT wins out they could possibly get the opportunity to be beat down and utterly embarrassed in front of the whole country AGAIN. Playing Alabama or Florida is not that far fetched. Both of those defenses would stick CPJ’s offense up his butt so far he’ll never be able to extract it.
Chuck Moore
October 29th, 2009
8:48 pm
I bet PN stands for pus%y nerd.
Vince's Dooley and Wally's big ole Butt
October 29th, 2009
10:56 pm
speaking of butt, Beamer got his butt kicked again, looks like he’s given up honestly, still hasn’t recovered from losing to GT
GT9
October 29th, 2009
11:42 pm
Art,
The same way Saban’s defense embarrassed Utah? (31-17)
A lot of people, maybe you weren’t one of them, said that Johnson’s offense wouldn’t work on the BCS level. No one was saying that Gailey’s recruits were good enough to make the offense successful. Most of the predictions for 2008 had TECH winning 4 or 5 games. Maybe you weren’t one of those people either and saw that a kid that UG wouldn’t play at QB or a running back that wasn’t as good as their “recruit” would win 8 or 9 games.
I was there at the LSU beat down last year and it was painful and embarrassing. I was there at the Miami beat down this year and it was painful and embarrassing. The offense has improved since those games, but until we beat an Alabama, Florida, USC, or Texas, most people will continue to discount GT and Johnson. Most people aren’t 7-1 and ranked #11, with the #1 rushing offense in the nation.
It’s only year two and as you said, “we’ll see.”
FSG
October 30th, 2009
8:33 am
So let’s see if I understand where the sour grapes Dawgs fans stand…
1) “It’s not a real offense – those points don’t count!”
2) “You cheat – even though the refs don’t call it!”
3) “You only win because you play teams you can beat!”
4) “You won’t win any more when your coach who wins leaves!”
5) “The best teams in the country would beat you!”
Did I miss anything?
BobinBuford
October 30th, 2009
9:27 am
Doug:
How about having a little talk with Chip Towers and reminding him that there is another team in Georgia that recruits players besides UGA? His last 10 posts:
5 about UGA football
1 about UGA men’s basketball
1 about UGA WOMEN’S basketball
0 about ANY GT sports
I think Chip still hasn’t gotten over the fact that Derrick Favors picked Tech over UGA, or that Steven Hill was not impressed with Richt’s last minute push to get him to come to UGA.
jd for gt
October 30th, 2009
11:22 am
Personal stats can wait until the off season. Thankfully, CPJ knows this is a team sport. I wonder if Va Tech is complaining about NC blocking them too much???
Fix my email account, ya $40k/year geek!
October 30th, 2009
11:35 am
No one really cares…..It is, after all, UGA/UF weekend!
Sic’em Dogs
The Truth
October 30th, 2009
12:26 pm
Frank Beamer and the JOKIES or is that CHOKIES? Just heard the Tar Heels stole the VT lunch pail and plan to replace it with a Barbie “Dream Season Edition” lunch purse.
Dawgs OWN Tech AND the AJC
October 30th, 2009
1:36 pm
Ga. Tech and ACC »
Tech hopes to eliminate early errors
NCAA approves rules changes on recruiting
Tech blog: Weekly records watch
Ramblin’ On blog: There’s No Crying in Football!
Recruiting: UGA 5-star commit Da’Rick Rogers not swayed by UT
killerJ
October 30th, 2009
6:26 pm
I Hear More Bug Eaters.I Wouldn,t Talk To Big S.E.C. Fans,Like We All Knew, Your Refs In Your Conference Are A Joke!(Not To Mention” The Out Of The Blue Interference Calls”,Even Brought Up By The Announcers)AGAINST; GT Over The Years.Vandy Gets There Head Handed To Them Saturday For GT,s Second Win Over The S.E.C..Prepare For The Third Pups at the Historic Stadium. 4 N.C. 15 Conference Titles (5 S.E.C. Titles) One Of Only Two Teams To Win The Four Granddaddy,s Of Them All. T.H.W.G.
Fix my email account, ya $40k/year geek!
October 30th, 2009
8:44 pm
killerJ – Say what? What are you on, dude? You make Z E R O sense.
gTa oLdSchOOl
October 30th, 2009
11:24 pm
GO GADUH
GO JACKUHSSSS
mash the bug
October 31st, 2009
1:51 am
tech sucks
mash the bug
October 31st, 2009
1:53 am
tech football, what a joke
GT9
October 31st, 2009
7:33 am
Mash,
We’ve been laughing all the way to 7-1. The Virginia papers referred to us as “bullying” the Cavs. We’ve beaten #22 and #4 in the nation to add to our punchline. Tech sucks the life out of opposing defenses.
I’m about to hit the road headed for the beautiful state of Tennessee. TECH has a full plate today against an opponent from the vaunted SEC.
I hope you have a fantastic day.
Go Tulane!
Fix my email account, ya $40k/year geek!
October 31st, 2009
8:05 am
No one in the state of Georgia even cares Tech is 7-1, except GT people.
Everyone is focused on the game in JAX where REAL football will be played today. A classic game that rules the airwaves in the SE. Tech could only wish for a game of magnitude like this. Bawa ha ha ha ha ha
Sic’em Dogs
mash the bug
October 31st, 2009
10:11 am
gt9, you’re an idiot, tech sucks
mash the bug
October 31st, 2009
10:12 am
you’re number 4 lost to UNC….hhahhahahah,,,patsy schedule….
GTRich
October 31st, 2009
5:20 pm
Here’s a question – If UGA goes to Florida and gets beaten 48-20 and they go to Tech and, say, they beaten 52-10. Would the dawgs concede that Tech is better than Florida???
Not Disappointed
October 31st, 2009
5:21 pm
Doug, are you working today? Oy!
Not Disappointed
October 31st, 2009
5:21 pm
that’s funny GT RIch!
GTRich
October 31st, 2009
5:23 pm
Not disappointed – would you??