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Ga Tech 17 at Miami, FL 33 (final)

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I am taking Da U. Home game for them, and my boss (who is a GT Alum and huge fan) doesn't think GT's defense will hold Da U's revamped O. Take it for what it is, but he was pretty good at the office pick'ems last year in regards to GT.

I am going to this game. Should be a a good one, but what I am really looking forward to is our tailgate (since I haven't done that in about 5 years). We have about 15 - 20 of us going and I hear we are going in a local restaurant's "bar bus" that is set up for tailgating. Apparantly it has a full bar on the inside and grills/coolers that are attached on the outside.

None of us are planning to be at work on Friday. :biggrin:
 
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Interestingly, he was recruited by Chan Gailey, but fits better into Johnson's scheme. They don't look for much more than 50 percent completion running the triple option.

Rivals.com College Football - Nesbitt now comfortable with option attack

Nesbitt's lack of accuracy is somewhat surprising because he passed so effectively in high school. He threw 32 touchdown passes with only four interceptions and completed 60 percent of his attempts as a high school senior.

"Personally, I like passing the ball," Nesbitt said. "In high school, I thought about passing before I ran. I only ran because I had to. But now it's all about the team."

Of course, it's tough to establish much of a rhythm as a passer when your team is running the ball almost 80 percent of the time, but Nesbitt knows he must do better. He considers a completion rate of between 60 and 65 percent a realistic goal.
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All that would be an improvement from last year though.

ATT-COMP PCT YDS YDS/A LONG TD INT SACK RAT
Josh Nesbitt, QBGT 123-54 43.9 808 6.6 47 2 5 12 96.3
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I'd also agree the game against Clemson was bad.
 
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I'm no Yellow Jacket defender, but I think we'll look back on the clemson passing performance and view it as an outlier. Coach Johnson will get it correct - it wouldn't surprise me to see him throw more 5-10 yard passes than looking down field.
 
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Listening to Coach Donnan, who ran the triple option at Oklahoma, his philosophy was always to pass deep. Why throw it for 5 yards when they know they can get that on the run nearly every time? I see a lot of the same style passing with Johnson, though I personally don't know if that's his philosophy. I do think intermediate passes will help Nesbitt's accuracy, and rhythm, but I think they'll be going deep more often. The performance by Ponder (24-41 for 294) most likely won't reflect what we'll see from GT, we all probably know that's obvious, but the completion percentage is probably representative of what we may see. In comparison, Harris was 21-34 for 386, but I wouldn't put too much into that as FSU plays 1-deep man coverages, bringing lots of blitzes, also not having a safety like Morgan Burnett deep.

I think Tech wins, I definitely like the over, but don't know if they'll cover. still thinking about my bet.
 
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