From The Rumble Seat

William Howard-USA TODAY Sports Tech on the road to face Virginia in Week 8 action. There are good things about bye weeks in that they allow a team additional time to rest and to prepare for their next game, just to mention a couple of the benefits. The one bad thing about a bye week (especially for fans) is the understandable amount of football withdrawal that comes … [Read more...] about Technical Tidbits 10/20: Yellow Jackets football back after bye week

Brett Davis-USA TODAY Sports The Split Zone Duo podcast looked into the proof of concept of Geoff Collins tenure at Georgia Tech The podcast Split Zone Duo provides a different type of insight from the normal college football podcast. That insight comes from a niche area, which is the coaching carousel. The coaching carousel means how the coaching staffs in college … [Read more...] about Back Seat Coachin’: Proof of concept

Photo by Dylan Buell/Getty Images no seriously. Is it like a growl or a meow? It’s fair to say that the free pick helped out last week. The average on picks last week was 6.1 points on average with a 7 way tie at the top scorers for the week. Congrats to Bad Carma, Heej, sporeman, EducationalEngineer, GTalbatross, Yeller Bug, and Jahmyr Gibbs’ Hair with 8 correct picks … [Read more...] about FTRS Picks Week 8: What Sound Does the Bearcat Make?

Is a Pop Tart a ravioli? The ACC Commissioner said he wants to see targeting enforced more consistently. In the interview, he talked about widely varying results of very similar appearing incidents, which is fair. But, he also endorsed the idea of calling it more frequently. Thoughts? - Bill Brockman Ben: I don’t know that I like the idea of calling it more frequently. I will … [Read more...] about Mailbag 10/20

Petre Thomas-USA TODAY Sports It’s the year for the G5 to make the playoff College football alignment happens when power brokers get together. College football schedules are worked out many years in advance. No team can control who they plan in any given year. Teams can control how they play. Cincinnati and Coastal Carolina are leaving a wake of carnage in their … [Read more...] about The Binion Index Week 7

Jim Dedmon-USA TODAY Sports A Couple of Interviews and Predictions Georgia Tech basketball at the media days started with Michael Devoe and Jordan Usher interviewing on Packer and Durham and then the full press conference with those two and Josh Pastner. Devoe and Usher are both seniors and expected to be the best players on the team so they were natural choices to send … [Read more...] about Georgia Tech Basketball: ACC Media Roundup

Brett Davis-USA TODAY Sports In which we reflect and posit As mentioned last week, instead of our regularly scheduled Tuesday programming I’ll be doing a recap of the first half of the season today. If you’d like a preview of Saturday’s game against UVA please see last week’s TTs! Let’s get to it. Record: 3-3 (2-2 ACC) ACC Coastal Standing: 4th Wins: Kennesaw State, … [Read more...] about Tuesday Thoughts 10/19: Halfway to Somewhere

Felt like going with baseball this week. | Danny Karnik / Georgia Tech Athletics GT Volleyball is back on an efficient winning grind. ATLANTA, GEORGIA — Though it may have been the bye week for football, that had little bearing on the rest of the Flats, as many teams were in action in locales stretching from University Park, Pennsylvania to the lakes of Florida. Given … [Read more...] about Yellow Jacket Roundup: Sweep Emotion

Photo by ESPN Press Room The former A-Back now represents the ACC every Saturday. In this weekly feature, we’ll take a look at what Tech’s finest are up to since leaving the Institute. This week, we focus on Roddy Jones. Known for his tight rope abilities and never say die approach on the field, Roddy Jones has quickly ascended the ranks of college football analysis. … [Read more...] about Beyond the Flats: Roddy Jones