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Monday, October 9, 2006
The reasons for success
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
I have spent the last couple of days working on a mid-season evaluation of Georgia Tech’s football team, and it’s been a little harder than I thought.
What it comes down to is there are a lot of reasons Tech has done so well, and many of them are interrelated. Here are my top eight, in random order:
*The new offense.
*The new Reggie Ball.
*The secondary performing better than expected with three new starters.
*The defensive front seven shutting down the run and, with the exception of the a long stretch against Notre Dame, getting pressure on the quarterback.
*Calvin Johnson.
*Only two starters missing a game because of injury, and neither of them missing more than one game.
*Better play by the offensive line.
*A down year for three opponents — Virginia, Virginia Tech and Maryland.
What order would you put them in?
