Live from Tech: An actual big football game against Duke!
Tech co-quarterback Vad Lee runs through the oddly garbed Maryland Terrapins. (Photo by Luis M. Alvarez)
Let’s face it: To call Duke football the rough equivalent of Georgia basketball would be, over time if not at present, an insult to the hoop ‘Dogs. Duke’s last winning season was in 1994; it has won one ACC championship since 1962, and that bears an asterisk, seeing as how Steve Spurrier was then the Blue Devils’ coach.
But here it is 2012 and Duke has a chance to claim the Coastal Division if it beats Georgia Tech today and Miami next week in Durham. Me, I don’t think the Dookies can win either game, but maybe that’s just me.
As we know, the Jackets are themselves somehow alive and kicking in the carnival ride that is the ACC Coastal. Tech can get to 5-3 in league play and stamp itself as the leader in the clubhouse by beating Duke. And the Jackets have won eight straight against the Devils and 16 of 17. The exception was in 2003, when interim Duke coach Ted Roof startled his alma mater 41-17 on a dark Durham day that stands as one the low points in Tech football annals.
OK, enough. Tech needs to win and will, I say. I’ll be on hand to watch and crack wise, and I’d enjoy your company. And I thank you, as ever, in advance.
By Mark Bradley
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ARdawg
November 17th, 2012
5:28 pm
50 Million isn’t going to stop any school wanting to leave the ACC
UGA Jacket
November 17th, 2012
5:29 pm
ARdawg it most definitely will. most ACC schools don’t have $50 mil laying around
Humphrey
November 17th, 2012
5:29 pm
You could offer Tech 500 millon and they’d never leave the weak ACC. They couldn’t compete anywhere else. Not even the Big 10
Biff Pocoroba
November 17th, 2012
5:29 pm
Under Armour will pay the $50 million if they want to leave.
If do right, no can defense
November 17th, 2012
5:30 pm
C’mon, where are the big plays! I wanna see some big plays. Even if they are on defensive side of the ball.
Mark Bradley
November 17th, 2012
5:31 pm
Georgia Tech leads 28-17. Tevin Washington to Zach Laskey.
If do right, no can defense
November 17th, 2012
5:31 pm
Yes, Laskey!
UGA Jacket
November 17th, 2012
5:31 pm
there’s a big play
Toady (no longer reformed)
November 17th, 2012
5:31 pm
Sniff! You got me ARdwag! I’m heart broken, TD Jackets!
Toady (no longer reformed)
November 17th, 2012
5:33 pm
Once Duke has to throw every down we will see a BIG defensive play!
ARdawg
November 17th, 2012
5:33 pm
UGA Jacket
I disagree. If it is to one of the power conferences they’ll pay it. Just a small financial set back easily made up in a few years.
Toady (no longer reformed)
November 17th, 2012
5:33 pm
Hmmmm…USCe 35-7, what happened?
Discount DoubleDawg
November 17th, 2012
5:35 pm
They could compete in the big east for sure… nothing wrong with that.
ARdawg
November 17th, 2012
5:36 pm
35-7? Is that all you’ve got? We don’t get the lecture on academics, football factories and thugs in jail?
Humphrey
November 17th, 2012
5:36 pm
Hmmmm, Middle Tennessee State 49-28, what happened?
Humphrey
November 17th, 2012
5:37 pm
And hmmmm, BYU 41-17, what happened?
ARdawg
November 17th, 2012
5:37 pm
Moderation? C’mon Bradley you’re being quite retentitive
Mark Bradley
November 17th, 2012
5:39 pm
The Blue Devils convert on fourth down.
Not a punting extravaganza. We’ve had two, total.
No turnovers, either.
UGA Jacket
November 17th, 2012
5:39 pm
the defense can just be painful to watch sometimes
Mark Bradley
November 17th, 2012
5:40 pm
Holding on Duke.
Mark Bradley
November 17th, 2012
5:41 pm
Duke at the 8.
Bill
November 17th, 2012
5:42 pm
They going to score again….
Mark Bradley
November 17th, 2012
5:44 pm
Duke cuts the margin to four. But the Devils fail to go for two, same as Mike Smith failed to go for two down five points in the Superdome.
Bill
November 17th, 2012
5:45 pm
Shoot out on 14th street…last team to get the ball?
ARdawg
November 17th, 2012
5:45 pm
UGA Jacket
I haven’t seen any defense in that game
GT man
November 17th, 2012
5:45 pm
Is it just me, or does GT’s D stink?
Bill
November 17th, 2012
5:46 pm
thats right..and I believe Smith got your report…
Humphrey
November 17th, 2012
5:46 pm
24 points to Duke? So Duke may score 30-40 points against GT and GT really, really thinks they’re going to stop Gurley, Marshall, Murray, King, Mitchell, etc? LMAO
Mark Bradley
November 17th, 2012
5:46 pm
Game’s biggest play might have been the pass to the left tackle. Kept a touchdown drive alive for the Jackets.
Humphrey
November 17th, 2012
5:46 pm
24 points to Duke?
Mark Bradley
November 17th, 2012
5:47 pm
Two punts. Zero touchdowns. Seven touchdowns. One field goal.
Bill
November 17th, 2012
5:48 pm
GT man..where you been all year..D has been that way at least 2 years.
GT man
November 17th, 2012
5:48 pm
Duke has converted two 4th down tries, and both drives then ended with TDs. B/c Gt’s pathetic D gave up 4 yds on 3rd & 6, and 4 yds on 3rd & 7, Cutcliff had a no-brainer decision to go for it on 4th.
Also, it seems like every time a GT defender or defenders makes contact the Duke player STILL makes positive yards!?
ole yeller
November 17th, 2012
5:49 pm
This has to be the worse coached defense I have ever seen at G.T.
UGA Jacket
November 17th, 2012
5:50 pm
ole yeller lets not get carried away. the days of GT’s stout defense are very far in the past
GT man
November 17th, 2012
5:52 pm
Did PJ not see that TW/gt got LUCKY on the previous drive!?!?
Mark Bradley
November 17th, 2012
5:54 pm
Third quarter ends. Tech 28, Duke 24
GTJohn
November 17th, 2012
5:54 pm
Lasky and Smith are looking good
DawgMan
November 17th, 2012
5:54 pm
It’s been evident for years why Coach Johnson (AKA: Coach Turkey Neck/Coach Gobbler/Coach Moobs) refuses to throw his old program Georgia Southern a bone and put them on the schedule…. Southern would beat the ever living crap out of the bugs.
UGASlobbetknocker
November 17th, 2012
5:54 pm
There are more people on this blog than there are st Grunt Field
GTJohn
November 17th, 2012
5:54 pm
Sims is too
The Georgia Bea
November 17th, 2012
5:55 pm
WHAT STATION IS THE GAME ON?
GTJohn
November 17th, 2012
5:56 pm
ESPNU
The Georgia Bea
November 17th, 2012
5:57 pm
@GTJohn
November 17th, 2012
5:56 pm
THANK U
St Richt
November 17th, 2012
5:57 pm
CPJ seems to be trying his best to get fired by playing tevin. Tevin would have never scored on vads TD on 4th down. Coach needs to wake up and put his best players on the field. His stubborn arrss is wearing thin on me now..
GTJohn
November 17th, 2012
5:58 pm
What’s up with Md going to the Big 10?
St Richt
November 17th, 2012
5:59 pm
Dawg man, put down the whiskey and the crack pipe pal.
Stinger1
November 17th, 2012
5:59 pm
So aggravated,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,THE pitch is WIDE open.
GTJohn
November 17th, 2012
6:00 pm
The D cannot stop anyone so the answer is to play ball control. TW is good at that.
UGA Jacket
November 17th, 2012
6:00 pm
well thats no good