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UNC Football Opponent Preview: Georgia Tech

From 2008 to 2018, Georgia Tech football was at times very good, at times pretty good, and occasionally not very good at all. But during all that time, they definitely had one of the strongest identities in college football: Coach Paul Johnson’s Navy-imported triple option offense. Strictly in terms of what you see on the field, there might not have been a stronger association between a school’s name and its offensive identity than between GT and that flexbone backfield that made you defend three plays at once on every down. But time is undefeated, and Johnson retired at the end of the 2018 season.