Georgia Tech 30, Virginia Tech 20: A Huge Win, Right When We Least Expected It

It was around lunch time on Saturday that I received some intel from Blacksburg that it didn’t look like senior C Freddie Burden or senior QB Justin Thomas would be starting, and in their places would be true freshman C Kenny Cooper and sophomore backup QB Matthew Jordan. Combine that with the knowledge from earlier in the week that star freshman B-Back Dedrick Mills was suspended for the game, and I immediately moved to look up the phone number for my local bank. I wanted to take out a second mortgage to bet Virginia Tech to cover the 14-point spread in this game.

I had spent over a month telling people that, of all the games remaining on Georgia Tech’s schedule, including the game in…