Facing the Hawkeyes
It may not have the glitz of the battle of the unbeatens in the Fiesta, but the Orange Bowl will be a great matchup of offense vs. defense: Tech’s o’s vs. Iowa’s x’s. Or is it the other way around?
Either way, it should be fun to watch.
Iowa coach Kirk Ferentz said that he couldn’t remember the last time he faced a team that uses this much option, and that trying to simulate it in practice will be quite a challenge.
The Hawkeyes’ offense isn’t flashy, but with a defense as stout as Iowa’s is, they don’t have to be. A couple of scores here and there is all they need. It’s kind of like Tech’s defense. It doesn’t have to stop everyone all the time, just a couple a game seem to work fine.
Anyway, it’s beena long day so I’ll open it up to your thoughts about the matchup.
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Paul in RDU
December 7th, 2009
1:33 pm
HawkeyeFan – as a former resident of PA, with a good friend a neighbour who is a PSU grad, I watch many of PSU’s games, including the Iowa game this year. Iowa looks to have a heck of a D, especially with the front 7.
On the offensive side of the ball – do you guys like to run wide or up the middle? UGA got most of their yards up the middle and off left tackle (away from Morgan).
drinking the koolaid
December 7th, 2009
1:35 pm
you mean nothing to do but beat you without their best player?
Ghost of Erk Russell
December 7th, 2009
1:35 pm
60-39…15-4….8-9. Those 4 NCs sure aren’t doing you any good on game day.
Ghost of Erk Russell
December 7th, 2009
1:35 pm
60-39…15-4….8-1. Those 4 NCs sure aren’t doing you any good on game day.
Ghost of Erk Russell
December 7th, 2009
1:37 pm
30-24 nip nip.
Timbo C.
December 7th, 2009
1:40 pm
Paul in RDU – Remind me what date D-Day was on. Oh, that’s right, JUNE 6, 1943.
So yes, I do count our NC in 1942.
lop
December 7th, 2009
1:41 pm
amazing they claim all these titles but have never once been ranked number 1 in the AP, not even for a week
macrotech
December 7th, 2009
1:41 pm
I don’t know….we’ve had a lot of good game days! The trophies just remind us that we come from a proud tradition that is celebrating a bright future! Hence, all the pup fans on here…….if you’re scared, say you’re scared!
Erk's ghost turned over in his grave
December 7th, 2009
1:41 pm
45-42, beat by a 4th rate high school team, between the hedges
macrotech
December 7th, 2009
1:45 pm
lop, AWARDED….not claim….AWARDED!
Ghost of Erk Russell
December 7th, 2009
1:46 pm
Oh I get it macrotech. Ancient history helps you feel better about the last 45 years of mediocrity that defines GT. The opiate of the techmites. I get it. If it makes you feel better about 60-39…15-4…8-1…and 30-24, more power to you.
Timbo C.
December 7th, 2009
1:46 pm
macrotech – CLAIMED…not UNANIMOUS…CLAIMED
Loser.
HarrytheWing
December 7th, 2009
1:47 pm
Put it in perpective, it’s a football game played by 18,19,20,21+ year old young men. Let’s all just enjoy and have some fun and be good sports! A life long Hawkeye.
Ghost of Erk Russell
December 7th, 2009
1:49 pm
Turning over in my grave once per decade is really not that strenuous or stressful. I can rest in peace under those circumstances.
macrotech
December 7th, 2009
1:49 pm
1990 isn’t ancient, but since you’re dead….whatever. Timbo C., you can’t claim a NC….we’ve been AWARDED 4 NC by the powers that be….sorry you’re team can’t seem to get it done…and you call ME a loser….too, FUNNY!
Paul in RDU
December 7th, 2009
1:50 pm
Timbo – Where did you go to school? What are they teaching there? Did you graduate?
For starters D-Day was on June 6th, 1944.
And you do know what today’s date is all about right? December 7th???
Ring a bell??? Ever heard of December 7th, 1941???
Take a look at the news tonight and you’ll see some pictures from Pearl Harbor at the USS Arizona Memorial. You see ,that ship went to the bottom, along with over 2,000 sailors on Sunday December 7th, 1941. FDR went to Congress the following day and the US declared war on Japan.
That would be a full 12 months before UGA claimed their national championship for 1942.
Dang Timbo – you should change your first initial from T to D,
benny
December 7th, 2009
1:50 pm
It’s amazing someone would brag about their program when they’re 20+ victories behind in the head-to-head series
andrew
December 7th, 2009
1:53 pm
I think macro is finally starting to catch on. He’s realized claiming national titles you didn’t really earn is bad
Ghost of Erk Russell
December 7th, 2009
1:53 pm
Is it true that Willie Martinez held the great Paul Johnson to a shade over 200 yards rushing in their most recent meeting?
macrotech
December 7th, 2009
1:57 pm
andrew, yep! That’s why I only count the 4 to uga’s 1! Thanks for recognizing!!!
buzz
December 7th, 2009
1:58 pm
It’s interesting how much fun (and that is what it is supposed to be about) football is when you have the opportunity to mingle with decent people from schools like Iowa, Clemson, Virginia, Wake Forest and North Carolina just to name a few. What all fans hate are the butthead jock sniffers like BullDawg that like to come on the boards and show their true upbringing to the entire world. Hey Bulldawg buttsniffer, you want to bring up the Tech students who were robbed, did anyone from GT make fun at the murders in Athens comitted by one of the faculty members. No! Why? Because we have enough damn common sense to realize what is decent in this world. Get a life dude. and by the way, I am certain that 98% of the Bulldog fans think you are a joke of a fan and apparantly a joke as a human being.
Have fun in Shreveport you low life!
Paul in RDU
December 7th, 2009
1:58 pm
Hi Erk – Was that some kind of pay per view event like UFC? I didn’t know that CWM and CPJ had a mano-a-mano, thought it was the teams playing.
Ghost of Erk Russell
December 7th, 2009
2:05 pm
Can’t get it done macrotech? Compare your record to UGA’s and then tell me who can’t get it done. Obviously UGA gets in done in Tech’s case quite consistently. Including this year.
Navigator
December 7th, 2009
2:07 pm
I love it myself, all of the interlopers from outside the Tech family coming to our blog. I guess they got tired of moaning about their pitiful teams, so they come over her to bash a successful program this year. I feel for them, for the ACC had one modern National Champion (shared or otherwise) in their original group of ACC schools, until Tech and FSU gave them three. They would have been a lower tier conference until the outsiders (Tech, FSU, VTech and Miami) came to boast the national recognition of their conference. Now it seems going forward 3 of those same 4 will carry the football banner in the future.
macrotech
December 7th, 2009
2:08 pm
Ghost of Erk Russell, I hear ya….just can’t seem to win the big one! Keep collecting those wins and filling that stadium….we’re going to be looking to adding a fifth NC, while you mutts look to find a DC!
Ghost of Erk Russell
December 7th, 2009
2:11 pm
Since 1892 UGA is 724-384-54 (.646) Since 1892 GT is 664-447-43 (.575) It appears that UGA has gotten it done a little more efficiently than has GT. When you throw in 60-39…15-4…8-1, it appears that it is GT that can’t get it done.
Ghost of Erk Russell
December 7th, 2009
2:15 pm
And you can macrotech? Why don’t you tell us when you ever did that. You didn’t even win your 1/2 NC head to head. UGA did that in 80. 1 against 2, mano a mano. So tell us macrotech….when did GT last win a “big one”?
LOL!!!!!!
December 7th, 2009
2:16 pm
Navigator, are you REALLY trying to compare Yech to the tradition of FSU and Miami? Yech has 2 and a half ACC titles in all their wasted years in the conference. Nice try
poor macro
December 7th, 2009
2:19 pm
Tech first needs to win an outright title of their own that they didn’t attempt to steal from another program that earned it
Ghost of Erk Russell
December 7th, 2009
2:24 pm
If you can beat Iowa you can say you won the biggest game in your last 45 sorry years. GT hasn’t been a pimple on UGA’s football butt since 1892. Until you can dominate this state the way UGA has, you will never be relevant. You are like UCLA to USC….Texas A&M to Texas….Duke to UNC…Pitt to Penn St…Vandy to UT. Get it mite? As of right now you are the weak little sister in your own state. To be relevant you have to beat UGA more than once a decade.
Hayden Fry
December 7th, 2009
2:28 pm
Is Iowa playing that ACC Championship team that got beat by that 7-5 Georgia Team?
ZamBonE
December 7th, 2009
2:29 pm
Thanks to all the classy uga fans giving Tech their nod of support. To the idiot puppy fans that consider themselves ACC Champs for winning one game, let me explain how dumb you sound. By using your logic, wake forest would be the Pac-10 champs since they beat stanford who went on to beat Pac 10 champs oregon. Washington would be Big 10 champs since they beat usc who beat Big 10 champ ohio st. Could you honestly say that wake is better than oregon or washington better than ohio st? Unless you are an ignorant pup, you would not. Season’s are not defined by one game. Anything can happen on any given game day (purdue beating ohio st). It’s football, and that’s what makes it great.
Go Jackets 2009 ACC Champs…florida oranges sure are delicious this time of year
HawkeyeFan
December 7th, 2009
2:40 pm
Paul in RDU -
Iowa’s DBs are stellar as well (their Jr CB Spievey is going NFL & is 1st team all BigTen, as well as their SS). If I were to coach against them though, I would pick on the FS spot. He tends to play deep so you can get wide-open around 20 yards over the middle.
As for your question, Iowa tends to run between the tackles but only has had success with A.Robinson in. He is a pounder that can pick-up the tough yards. Iowa will stay between the tackles 90% of the time and won’t give-up even if it’s not working. They like to wear down d-lines and get most of their ground yards in the 4th quarter. The only problem with that is we could be down by 14 by then with GTs offense.
My guess is Iowa will be having success through the air and their run game will be the icing on the cake. Look for Iowa’s TE Moeaki to have a huge game.
JimboDawg
December 7th, 2009
2:41 pm
You guys know where I can get a butt cut hairdoo and fake tan like my here CMR?
jeff
December 7th, 2009
2:42 pm
Poor nerds. They can’t get over the fact their two best teams were pounded by middle tier SEC teams
Cleveland, OH jacket
December 7th, 2009
2:43 pm
Yawn….it’s ok pups. One day you will be relevant again on a national stage. Just not now. Hey, at least you will always have 1980 and your 2 recent SEC championships.
It’s just sad how much it tears you up to see when you finally realize that GT is the more relevant national program right now. GT is on the national stage….UGA won’t even play again this season after the month of December.
It’s ok; maybe one day you will get another recognized MNC to go with your other two….then you’ll only need 1 more to be as historically relevant as GT football. Although, looking at the state of things, we might get another one before you become relevant again.
I’m glad our gift to you will make you have something to cheer about in the offseason.
mmmmmm Oranges taste so good
JimboDawg
December 7th, 2009
2:45 pm
I just got punched in the face by a GT fan and it hurt…I started crying
pilgrim
December 7th, 2009
2:46 pm
Hawks had 40,000 fans at the Orange Bowl in 2003.
GT45
December 7th, 2009
2:50 pm
I’m still laughing, Athens PD-
Stan
December 7th, 2009
2:50 pm
Hey Cleveland,
If GT is so great, then why can’t they beat UGA during one of their worst seasons in recent memory, without their best player, while playing at home and two weeks to prepare???
Timbo C.
December 7th, 2009
3:01 pm
Paul in RDU – you’re right, I was one year short of D-Day. My apologies, I’m usually very good with historic dates. But it only strengthens my position. We were attacked in 1941, but the ramp up effort leading to D-Day lasted three and a half years. In fact, Half of UGA’s team fought overseas in WWII, including Trippi, Sinkwich, etc. Bottom line, it’s safe to say that all schools fielded legitimate football teams in 1942. Yes, UGA won the NC that year.
However, in 1917, nearly every male 17-25 in the country was in the trenches. How could tech find anybody to play, let alone find anybody to play? Oh, that’s right. They had ringers from Fort MacPherson play high school kids. Yeah, that sounds like a NC to me. Typical tech b.s. argument.
Not surprised.
Coach Paul Johnson
December 7th, 2009
3:03 pm
well, hidee there boys and gurls. I guess we’ll make that thar trip down to what they call that South Beach. I actually have a nice tan on my dumb country ass. How you ask? I got plenty of solar rays from when Willie Martinez pulled my pants down in front of all dem nerds at Historic Mark Richt Field. That’s how.
Coach Mark Richt
December 7th, 2009
3:11 pm
I like boys
AlabamaBuzzer
December 7th, 2009
3:15 pm
I believe we’ll see some good coming out of Tech getting beat by UGA this year. With all the crap that PJ has taken from the UGA fans since the loss, I think he’ll have a better appreciation for the hate most of us TECHies have for the BullMutts! Too bad we’ll have to wait a year to find out if that’s true.
jackets
December 7th, 2009
3:27 pm
iowa has a stout o-line so they should be able to run the ball on us… we need to get some of our injured DT’s back if we are gonna have a chance.. go jackets!
billy c.
December 7th, 2009
3:30 pm
BamaBuzzer: Believe me, Johnson has always hated Georgia. This stems back to 1989 when uga didn’t hire Erk. Johnson was coming with him to be OC. He was plenty pissed with the was they bigtimed Erk. Then he got even more pissed when uga bitched around the best team he ever had at Southern in 2000. He literally thought they were going to win that game, and he said as much in the weeks leading up to it. Had to have been embarrassing how that turned out for him. Then this year happened. Had to have stung a little bit.
ungar
December 7th, 2009
3:43 pm
The misery of nerds puts a smile on my face. Your dream season was ruined by a sorry UGA team without their best player
Coach Paul Johnson
December 7th, 2009
3:44 pm
I like farm animals. No, I mean I REALLY like them. If you know what I mean. And what I mean is that I like to have sex with them.
macrotech
December 7th, 2009
3:46 pm
Timbo, I’ll continue to respect what uga has done over all the years….they, consistantly win and appeared to set themselves up to be in a position to win the NC these past few years. Whether it was injuries or sec officials, uga has consistantly fallen short. Tech has 4 NCs compared to uga’s 1….Tech is 11 and 2 this season with losses to Miami and uga…..HOW are you going to tell me that this doesn’t eat you and your pup friends up WHILE spending SO much time on a blog that has nothing to do with uga?! We’ve won our NCs in the systems that have been in place….got the trophies to prove it. Fact is, and all the Tech fans realize this, that you pups are freaking out over the turning of the table. The dawgs upset Tech this year and you know that for the next few years, IF uga beats Tech it’ll be an ‘upset’! Tech is on it’s way up and the dawgs are firing their defensive staff…… I’d say I’m sorry, but I’m not…..been waiting a while for this! Nice win, though!
observer
December 7th, 2009
3:48 pm
Iowa might be the ideal defense to stop Tech’s offense. Slow white boys that have no choice but to stick to their assignments!!!