Georgia tech upsets Florida st!

 In a very stunning upset in week 0 the georgia tech takes down acc opponent Florida st  21-24  and given this is the 9th college football game that has played in a international space and with a true irish underdog fashion georgia tech shocks us all.

How does this affect the college football playoff?

In the 4 team playoff a loss like this would be devastating to Florida st but the Seminoles still have a shot to get in to the inaugural 12 team college football playoff the committee will look not only how you win but how you loose (see article about 12 team cfp) so there is a real possibility we may see fsu back in the college football playoff later in the year but this shows that every game has meaning from the week 0 to the title games But lets get in to the weeds of this game

Stats

jamal haynes ran for 75 yards with 2 touch downs to help seal the win against Florida state  with quarterback haynes threw for 146 yards and ran 54 yards. The yellow jackets (1-0 and 1-0 in the acc)

were able to dominate the line of scrimmage to accumulate 190 rushing yards and 5.3 yards per carry

 

Georgia tech head coach  had this to say about the domination his team had "Really proud of the offensive line" coach kay said he also had this to say "shocking there, right? Really proud of these guys!.

Coming off a undefeated season and a remade roster, the Seminoles with 6:33 to left to go in the 4th quarter on a 15 play drive lead by DJ Uiagalelei.

Florida State (0-1 0-1) in acc play which was favored to win by 10 and a half points according to Sportsbook, never touched the ball again.Birr came in to the game with 5 seconds left in the game to kick the game winning field goal (58 yard field goal) that stayed just within the left upright.

Uiagaleli completed 19 of 27 passes for 193 yards in is Flordia State debut completing mostly short passes out to the outside until the late 4th down conversion late in the 4th q

Ryan fitzgerald made a 59 yard Field goal to help fsu late in the game (longest in fsu history)

Both teams had 7 drives apiece GTs  Final two drives were among the best and 11 play 89 yard touch down drive and then a 12 yard play 49 yard drive to set up birrs kick

Flordia State was able to build two touchdown drives, but just one in the second half while fsu had  2 rushing touchdowns, The Ground attack stalled as Gt held fsu to 98 yards on 31 carries

Brent key  had this to say "We are not trying to prove Anything to anyone" He also said this "all we are doing is playing as a team and as a famliy" 

Coming off a 7-6 season the yellow jackets sent a message to the rest of the acc and to college football as a whole

 

Conclusion

In conclusion Week 0 was nothing short of amazing and shows that the 2024 season will be nothing short of amazing so stay tuned to skyarccfb for more news as the season unfolds!