Closing in on extra program historical past, No. 8 Georgia Tech will take its unbeaten file into Raleigh, N.C., towards North Carolina State in Atlantic Coast Convention play on Saturday night time.
A victory for Georgia Tech (8-0, 5-0) would match this system’s longest single-season successful streak since starting 9-0 in 1966. The Yellow Jackets are 5-0 within the ACC for the primary time since becoming a member of the convention in 1983.
However the data imply little to go coach Brent Key, who simply needs to go 1-0 this week.
“I view it like this, to go the place we wish to go, and the place everyone needs to go, we’re solely to the midway level,” Key mentioned. “You wish to be ready to have the ability to play video games in November that imply one thing. Difficult video games towards good competitors, and that is what we’ve in entrance of us.”
Contemporary off a 41-16 win over Syracuse final week, the Yellow Jackets’ assault is led by Haynes King, who threw for 3 touchdowns and ran for a pair of scores within the victory. Main a historic begin to the season, King has thrown for 1,480 yards, seven touchdowns and only one interception whereas main the ACC with 12 speeding scores on 651 speeding yards.
Though King is an outsider in the mean time, Key mentioned he believes the sixth-year quarterback must be in New York for the Heisman Trophy ceremony in December.
“Discover me someone else that brings extra worth to a workforce (than King),” Key mentioned. “I am glad he is on my workforce. I haven’t got a vote, however it will be a disgrace if he isn’t in New York, and I feel he shall be there.”
North Carolina State (4-4, 1-3) is taking part in for bowl eligibility forward of a troublesome two-week stretch. The Wolfpack have dropped 4 of their previous 5 video games, and the highway will get more durable for head coach Dave Doeren’s group, which is able to host the Yellow Jackets earlier than heading to No. 10 Miami on Nov. 15.
“No one’s given up. We have simply acquired to play higher, and it begins with me,” Doeren mentioned. “It is about making an attempt to get these guys in these final 4 weeks, one sport at a time, to play the most effective soccer they’ll play. They’re annoyed, they’re mad, they usually wish to do one thing about it. One factor about this sport, you place the ball down, something can occur.”
North Carolina State’s solely win since Sept. 11 was over FCS-member Campbell on Oct. 4. Final week, the Wolfpack allowed 529 yards in a 53-34 loss at Pitts. The quarterback play hasn’t been the difficulty in Raleigh, as sophomore CJ Bailey’s 2,071 passing yards rank third within the ACC.
“I feel CJ continues to guide our soccer workforce very well,” Doeren mentioned. “Pleased with him.”
Doeren, the convention’s second-longest tenured coach behind Clemson’s Dabo Swinney, is having to handle rumors of his time at North Carolina State ending because the Wolfpack attempt to keep away from a second straight shedding season.
“Wins and losses matter so much. I perceive all that,” Doeren mentioned. “I perceive the career. It isn’t strain. It is a privilege to get to do what I do, and sooner or later, if they need another person to do it, then God bless them. However I’ll make the most of my alternatives, so long as I get them, and battle for these children, as a result of they will battle for me.”
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