Paul Johnson was in a bad mood. As developments go, this wasn’t of the man-bites-dog variety. On his giddiest day, Georgia Tech’s coach is never mistaken for Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. And veteran observers know that the first scrimmage of every preseason leads Johnson to decide that his Jackets cannot win a game.
Here we note that Tech has, for a change, been picked to win the ACC Coastal Division. And that the Jackets were ranked No. 17 in the USA Today coaches’ poll. (Not since 2010 had they been ranked in a major preseason poll.) And that Tech is coming off its best finish – No.