It’s tempting to see Georgia Tech’s 2015 season as a worst-case scenario of youth and injury and a wicked schedule and lousy luck. At 3-9, it was the Yellow Jackets’ most wretched showing since 1994, when Bill Lewis started (but didn’t end) the year as coach. But if 2015 was Tech’s generational nadir, wasn’t 2014, which culminated in an Orange Bowl victory, also an outlier?
Fun with numbers: Add the 3-9 of 2015 to the 11-3 of 2014 and divide by two; you get 7-6 as the average. Add the wins and losses from 2010 through 2013 and divide by four; you get 7.