Tech football’s 5-6 2017 campaign marked a big step back from the previous year, where the Jackets went 8-4 in the regular season, beat the University of Georgia in Athens and capped the season off with a TaxSlayer Bowl win over the University of Kentucky on New Year’s Eve. On paper, the defense makes for an easy culprit. The defensive players allowed more points per game — 26.5, an almost perfectly average No. 64 of 130 teams nationally — than ever before in the Ted Roof era, an ignominy the program quickly acknowledged by parting ways with Roof at the end of the season and installing Appalachian State’s Nate Woody as the new defensive coordinator.
Trio leads upcoming season
