Notre Dame won 17-14. The Yellow Jackets fall to 2-1 on the season.
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It might have signaled a problem at Georgia Tech last week when backup quarterback Tim Byerly was injured in practice and ruled out for an undetermined time. This contest should be viewed as a growth game for the Ramblin’ Wreck. Even more impressive was the fact that Tech’s first three third-downs were 3rd-and-4 or less.
Yet Notre Dame football coach Brian Kelly kept referring to today’s 30-22 triumph as a “program win”, and he’s totally right.
Scheme and execution are vital to success, but ultimately the game of football is still very much about winning in the trenches. Georgia Tech tied it on a five-yard Patrick Skov touchdown run, and then the offense started to struggle while the Irish attack heated up. 3.
Kelly wasn’t sure of the severity of the injury but said he wasn’t optimistic. “So we were able to get our backers over the top”.
“The biggest thing we’re taking from this game is our attitude”, defensive lineman Isaac Rochell said.
Drue Tranquill was a very important player in our back end of the defense because of his versatility.
– Overall, the Yellow Jackets “played frightful”, Johnson added.
“That was our goal”. They held a team that averaged 300+ yards on the ground to a little over 200 yards on 47 attempts. Overall, he finished 21-of-30 for 242 yards, one touchdown and one interception. The clock-saving measures back-fired when freshman Alizé Jones coughed up the football giving Georgia Tech another shot to score. “He left, and Notre Dame left, and I kind of just X’ed them out”, he said. “That’s what I mentioned earlier”.
Kizer answered the mistake, leading the Irish on a methodical 10-play, 82-yard touchdown drive to get the lead back. He completed the only pass he attempted for 35-yard touchdown to TaQuon Marshall. “One guy you’d get fixed, then the other guy would mess up”, Georgia Tech coach Paul Johnson said. The Yellow Jackets are 9-1 against the spread in their last 10 games overall. I think we responded to a lot of hype around this game.
For how long? Maybe three more months. The manual exam was not a good one. “From here, we’ll learn from it, strive forward and have confidence, which will continue to grow as we play another home game”.
So, was there any part of the game to be happy about?
Kizer looked indecisive at times but played well enough to get the victory, coming up with several big plays. “It calls for the ultimate focus, and we have to be in union for it to work”. “Threw it up for him, make it happen …”
“I watched half of it. I feel asleep during it”, he said. Through three games, Fuller put up 18 catches for 397 – that’s 22.1 yards per catch – and five TDs.
“He’s just an unbelievable player”, Martin said after the game.
“They’re much more like us”, Swinney said of Notre Dame’s athleticism. “We thought it would be a good fit here”. “We can’t do that”, linebacker Tyler Marcordes said. “We can’t afford to lose any more players at key positions”.
For another week, he was correct. VanGorder, now the defensive coordinator at Notre Dame, reportedly said he wanted to bring the offense “into the 21st century”. Wide Receiver Shaun Wilson and Shaquille Powell combined for 13 receptions for 78 yards. He credited the offensive line.
“I’m so proud. I love being a member of this defense”. Notre Dame’s season? It lives. The Duke Blue Devils are 0-4 against the spread after allowing less than 170 yards passing in their previous game.
A major reason the Irish are underdogs is because sophomore DeShone Kizer will make his first start at quarterback after Malik Zaire fractured his ankle against Virginia.
No team’s stock has been more volatile this season than Stanford’s. “He’s so fast and when you see the ball is thrown to him, you know the play is about to be made”.
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“We were not doing a very good job”.
