All Yellow Jackets Podcast: Previewing the Clemson Game
We are less than 48 hours from kickoff between Georgia Tech and Clemson in Death Valley.
There are a lot of intriguing storylines about this game. Both teams are trying to get bowl eligible, Georgia Tech is trying to defeat the Tigers for the first time since 2014, as well as trying to win in Clemson for the first time since 2008. Prior to their win over Notre Dame last week, Clemson seemed to be trending in the wrong direction after back-to-back losses to Miami and NC State, but they got the win against the Fighting Irish.
Earlier this week, head coach Brent Key talked about what a win would mean to this program:
"You want me to say the politically correct thing? It would be great for 24 hours, we would enjoy it and then onto the next game. We play one season, each week is a season, there is no tomorrow after Saturday as far as we are concerned. There is nothing... we are going to lay it all on the line. We are going to take the punches, throw the punches and when I say take the punches, I mean take our punches, in football you are always going to take a few punches. If anyone had seen our team last week, the excitement, how excited they were, it is another team that we have the opportunity to play football against.
Now what would it mean to beat them? They are the standard of the conference. What they have done the last 12 years, what Dabo has been able to accomplish there, it is a truly remarkable job and it is one of the only teams in the last 12 years to do what they have been able to do. So, would it be big? Yeah, it would be big, dadgum right it would be big but we are not going to make it more than it is because that is when the anxiety and the emotional starts to kick in.
When the game is over, I will let these guys, like we have every week, choose how to let their emotions go."
Georgia Tech defenders tackling a Virginia ball carrier
On the latest episode of the All Yellow Jackets podcast, I break down the matchup between Georgia Tech and Clemson and give the keys to the game and how the Yellow Jackets can win.
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