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89. Nov. 21: Georgia Tech 30, NC State 29​

88. Oct. 12: Georgia Tech 41, North Carolina 34​

Our tour of the ACC continues. Georgia Tech went unbeaten against the state of North Carolina in 2024 but needed heroics (and opponent breakdowns) to pull it off against North Carolina in Week 7 and NC State in Week 13. First, North Carolina erased a 10-point deficit in the last four minutes of regulation, only to let Jamal Haynes race up the middle for a 68-yard touchdown with 16 seconds left.

Then, in a wild Thursday night affair, NC State turned a nine-point deficit into a 29-23 lead in the final seven minutes, only for Aaron Philo to score from 18 yards with 22 seconds left. NC State got close enough for Collin Smith to attempt a 58-yard field goal at the buzzer. It didn't miss by much.

74. Aug. 24: Georgia Tech 24, No. 10 Florida State 21​

Week 0 classics are fun: They're wild, and we have no idea what they'll mean. Before SMU made a run to the ACC championship game and College Football Playoff, the Mustangs had to claw back against a feisty Nevada team. The Wolf Pack led 24-13 with nine minutes left, but Brashard Smith's touchdown, a 2-point conversion and a quick safety made it 24-23. A beautiful 34-yard Preston Stone lob to RJ Maryland with 1:18 left gave them their first lead.

Hours earlier (and thousands of miles away in Dublin, Ireland), Georgia Tech kick-started Florida State's 2024 collapse with a heaping dose of Jamal Haynes and Haynes King. The Yellow Jackets scored on three drives of longer than six minutes, and Aidan Birr's 44-yard field goal at the buzzer gave Tech a shocking win that soon wouldn't feel shocking.

17. Nov. 9: Georgia Tech 28, No. 4 Miami 23​

Against Georgia Tech in Week 11, Miami allowed touchdown drives of 17, nine and eight plays (combined time of possession in these drives: 19:46). The Canes trailed 28-16 in the fourth quarter, and while Ward's 38-yard TD pass to Xavier Restrepo got them to within five, Romello Height sacked and stripped Ward with 1:36 left, and Jordan van den Berg recovered to seal the upset.

5. Nov. 29: No. 7 Georgia 44, Georgia Tech 42 (8OT)​

Most of the time of late, Clean, Old-Fashioned Hate has been a pretty straightforward rivalry: Both teams hate each other, and then Georgia wins comfortably. But with a spot in the CFP potentially on the line for Georgia -- the Dawgs would wrap up a spot with a win, but a loss might require them to beat Texas the next week in the SEC Championship -- Tech landed some haymakers and all but knocked the Dawgs out.

Kirby Smart and Brent Key had to hug it out after surviving their eight-overtime edition of the rivalry. Todd Kirkland/Getty Images
Tech took a 17-0 lead into halftime, and it legitimately should have been bigger: The Yellow Jackets finished each of their first three drives of the game inside the UGA 30 but came away with just three points. But even with Georgia's offense building some second-half success, the Jackets took a 27-13 lead with under six minutes remaining. Their in-game win probability, per ESPN Analytics, rose as high as 98.5%. But Carson Beck engineered a quick UGA touchdown drive, and on a third-and-1 with 2:10 left, Dan Jackson hit Tech quarterback Haynes King as hard as he possibly could and knocked the ball loose. Chaz Chambliss recovered, and five plays later Beck found Dominic Lovett for a short, game-tying touchdown.

Then came the strangest overtime you'll ever see. The teams traded touchdowns on each of their first two possessions, but despite loads of overall offensive success on the day -- the teams combined for 1,168 total yards -- neither could hit a two-point conversion. They missed 11 of the first 13 in overtime until Nate Frazier's plunge finally won the game for the Dawgs. This game roped you in with wild swings and drama, then held you hostage for what felt like days as Kirby Smart insisted on using every overtime timeout available to him and offenses kept coming up short. All in all, a weird day at the office. A delightfully weird day, but weird all the same.
 
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gtcole said:

89. Nov. 21: Georgia Tech 30, NC State 29​

88. Oct. 12: Georgia Tech 41, North Carolina 34​

Our tour of the ACC continues. Georgia Tech went unbeaten against the state of North Carolina in 2024 but needed heroics (and opponent breakdowns) to pull it off against North Carolina in Week 7 and NC State in Week 13. First, North Carolina erased a 10-point deficit in the last four minutes of regulation, only to let Jamal Haynes race up the middle for a 68-yard touchdown with 16 seconds left.

Then, in a wild Thursday night affair, NC State turned a nine-point deficit into a 29-23 lead in the final seven minutes, only for Aaron Philo to score from 18 yards with 22 seconds left. NC State got close enough for Collin Smith to attempt a 58-yard field goal at the buzzer. It didn't miss by much.

74. Aug. 24: Georgia Tech 24, No. 10 Florida State 21​

Week 0 classics are fun: They're wild, and we have no idea what they'll mean. Before SMU made a run to the ACC championship game and College Football Playoff, the Mustangs had to claw back against a feisty Nevada team. The Wolf Pack led 24-13 with nine minutes left, but Brashard Smith's touchdown, a 2-point conversion and a quick safety made it 24-23. A beautiful 34-yard Preston Stone lob to RJ Maryland with 1:18 left gave them their first lead.

Hours earlier (and thousands of miles away in Dublin, Ireland), Georgia Tech kick-started Florida State's 2024 collapse with a heaping dose of Jamal Haynes and Haynes King. The Yellow Jackets scored on three drives of longer than six minutes, and Aidan Birr's 44-yard field goal at the buzzer gave Tech a shocking win that soon wouldn't feel shocking.

17. Nov. 9: Georgia Tech 28, No. 4 Miami 23​

Against Georgia Tech in Week 11, Miami allowed touchdown drives of 17, nine and eight plays (combined time of possession in these drives: 19:46). The Canes trailed 28-16 in the fourth quarter, and while Ward's 38-yard TD pass to Xavier Restrepo got them to within five, Romello Height sacked and stripped Ward with 1:36 left, and Jordan van den Berg recovered to seal the upset.

5. Nov. 29: No. 7 Georgia 44, Georgia Tech 42 (8OT)​

Most of the time of late, Clean, Old-Fashioned Hate has been a pretty straightforward rivalry: Both teams hate each other, and then Georgia wins comfortably. But with a spot in the CFP potentially on the line for Georgia -- the Dawgs would wrap up a spot with a win, but a loss might require them to beat Texas the next week in the SEC Championship -- Tech landed some haymakers and all but knocked the Dawgs out.

Kirby Smart and Brent Key had to hug it out after surviving their eight-overtime edition of the rivalry. Todd Kirkland/Getty Images
Tech took a 17-0 lead into halftime, and it legitimately should have been bigger: The Yellow Jackets finished each of their first three drives of the game inside the UGA 30 but came away with just three points. But even with Georgia's offense building some second-half success, the Jackets took a 27-13 lead with under six minutes remaining. Their in-game win probability, per ESPN Analytics, rose as high as 98.5%. But Carson Beck engineered a quick UGA touchdown drive, and on a third-and-1 with 2:10 left, Dan Jackson hit Tech quarterback Haynes King as hard as he possibly could and knocked the ball loose. Chaz Chambliss recovered, and five plays later Beck found Dominic Lovett for a short, game-tying touchdown.

Then came the strangest overtime you'll ever see. The teams traded touchdowns on each of their first two possessions, but despite loads of overall offensive success on the day -- the teams combined for 1,168 total yards -- neither could hit a two-point conversion. They missed 11 of the first 13 in overtime until Nate Frazier's plunge finally won the game for the Dawgs. This game roped you in with wild swings and drama, then held you hostage for what felt like days as Kirby Smart insisted on using every overtime timeout available to him and offenses kept coming up short. All in all, a weird day at the office. A delightfully weird day, but weird all the same.
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Any recap of the uga game is still painful to me.
 
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Any recap of the uga game is still painful to me.
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Ok I try to keep this a secret (because no one knows I drink)
Do want I do, get a case of beer, so people don’t think you just like to drink, grill a few steaks kind of like your tailgating before the game. Then turn the game back on enjoy your beer and after King scores on an 11 yard run and the score is 27-13 turn off the tv and enjoy the victory. Drink a few more beers take the dog out to poop and put it on the front steps of a uga fan in your neighborhood.
 
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