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Georgia Tech's Paul Johnson says Jackets "won't win an arms race with Clemson"

CHARLOTTE, NC – Georgia Tech head coach Paul Johnson hasn’t been shy about the disparity between schools in the college football arms race, and he admitted Wednesday that the Yellow Jackets can’t win an arms race against Clemson.

Johnson spoke to the media at the ACC Kickoff in Charlotte and mentioned that winning football games still comes down to blocking and tackling.

“I think that on our level of football, sometimes it's turned into a little bit of an arms race, and there's a lot of different factors that go into it,” Johnson said. “But the bottom line, I think, to win football games hasn't changed that much; you need to be able to run the ball and win the turnover battle and play good defense.