2022 GT Football News Thread

[JacketFan137]

massive day for recruiting as we built the foundation for our class. lot of size on both lines. now hopefully we can work in the season and get some 4* guys and make it a great class

 

[Heisman's Ghost]

It was one of the two most important games that year, but I think it was just the best bowl available for us at the time. Like other fans, I remember thinking we'd been shut out. Colorado and Notre Dame were in the Orange bowl, which signed the teams early as a rematch of the previous championship game.
The Citrus Bowl lucked into GT because the bowl dance cards filled up too early. It ended up a mismatch between a great GT team and a #19 Nebraska team.
The Rose Bowl was the Pac10/Big10 game, and although it was a big bowl, it often wasn't an important game in the 80's and 90's.
The Sugar Bowl was a big bowl, and it was set to match the SEC champ + another team, and they picked UVA.
Miami played Texas in a top-5 matchup in the Cotton Bowl.
The right matchup was GT vs Colorado in the Orange Bowl, but the Orange Bowl committee picked too soon, went for a #5 Notre Dame and a big gate, got themselves a championship game but not an undisputed championship game.
We weren't going to bump Texas out of the Cotton Bowl and choosing between Miami at #3 and GT at #2 was a tough decision. We were recovering our ranking at the time that bowls got set too. The end of year win over UGA bumped us up a bit.
The other matchup that should have happened was GT vs Tennessee in the Sugar Bowl.

I'll stick with my opinion that the Citrus was a tier-2 bowl in general.

Great post. The only caveat is that even though Nebraska was ranked 19th, and we were #2, they were a slight favorite. A friend of mine had relatives in Orlando and we stayed with them and went to the game. The morning of the game we found a public tennis court, played tennis and walked to the Citrus Bowl. As we were crossing a parking lot, a huge red bus drives up and a bunch of people get off decked out in all red and white. Not a one of them was younger than 60 and most were older than 70. Funny thing about that game, I thought we had it in the bag from the start based on how we played UGA in Athens a few weeks before.

 

[RamblinRed]

GT will face the #1 and 3 of the top 10 Defensive front 7's in 2022 according to the rankings in this article.

Best college football front-seven rooms: Clemson, Alabama loaded with talented defensive linemen, linebackers

Teams win in the trenches, and some superpowers are loaded heading into the 2022 season

www.cbssports.com

 

[tmhunter52]

Good to see we are top 10 where it matters.

But two of our OOC foes’ head coaches are dressed better than CGC. I suppose that does not bode well.

 

[MidtownJacket]

But two of our OOC foes’ head coaches are dressed better than CGC. I suppose that does not bode well.

going to need to see a source for this..

 

[CuseJacket]

going to need to see a source for this..

Agree, GT fans should not be passing judgment on fashion. This is a fact that predates John Heisman.

Unless it's coming from me.

 

[FlatsLander]

GT will face the #1 and 3 of the top 10 Defensive front 7's in 2022 according to the rankings in this article.

Best college football front-seven rooms: Clemson, Alabama loaded with talented defensive linemen, linebackers

Teams win in the trenches, and some superpowers are loaded heading into the 2022 season

www.cbssports.com

CGC will have a better defense that any of these chumps.
#thereisnowarinBaSingSe

 

[TooTall]

Agree, GT fans should not be passing judgment on fashion. This is a fact that predates John Heisman.

Unless it's coming from me.

Tech fans would hate this guy because of his fashion choices.

 

[cthenrys]

Tech fans would hate this guy because of his fashion choices.
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First win. No one cares if you win 20 in the show and have moldy shower shoes. They’ll call you eccentric.

 

[CEB]

First win. No one cares if you win 20 in the show and have moldy shower shoes. They’ll call you eccentric.

Until then, however, it means you’re a slob.

 

[cthenrys]

Until then, however, it means you’re a slob.

Don't think meat. It only hurts the ballclub

 

[Techster]

 

[Northeast Stinger]

Another look at the block in the back that cost GT an unshared national championship in 1990. And don’t forget about the “fifth-down” game Colorado was gifted earlier in the year, sheesh.

Still perturbed

 

[cthenrys]

Still perturbed

Yep. We were watching at our hotel in Orlando and the swing of emotions was significant.

 

[SecretAgentBuzz]

Seems fair. I believe Sims is better than that, but he hasn’t proved it on the field…yet. I also counted 7 of the top 42 that will be our opponents this year. I pray our defensive backfield will look better!

 

[Jerry the Jacket]

Looks like Sims may be on the 49er's radar.

 

[alagold]

Andree St Amour playing in the USFL.Saw him on a sack recently. Team ?

 

[LongforDodd]

Sims, at least, has to be top 3 (maybe No. 1) fastest out of the pocket to 25 yds down field. His passing consistency, on the other hand, is his achilles heel.

 

[dressedcheeseside]

Sims, at least, has to be top 3 (maybe No. 1) fastest out of the pocket to 25 yds down field. His passing consistency, on the other hand, is his achilles heel.

9th among ACC qb’s according to this guy.

 

[Pointer]

Tech fans would hate this guy because of his fashion choices.
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No, we hate him because he pees sitting down.