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Friday, February 8, 2008
Tough schedule, huge challenge
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
If I told you Georgia Tech would play seven home games and two Division I-AA teams, your first reaction might be to think the schedule was pretty easy. It isn’t.
Forget for a moment the games against I-AA’s Jacksonville State and Gardner-Webb (combined 2007 record 11-11). Realize instead that the rest of the schedule is so tough the Jackets could very well lose its first three I-A games — at defending Atlantic Division champion Boston College, at defending Coastal Division champion Virginia Tech and at home against Liberty Bowl champion Mississippi State.
That’s a mighty tough threesome for a team installing a totally new offense and a somewhat new defense.
And four of Tech’s five road games are against 2007-08 bowl teams. (North Carolina, the lone exception, is going to be much improved this fall.)
The good news: 1) The Miami game on a Thursday night gives Tech a little extra time to get ready for Georgia. 2) The opener on Thursday night gives Tech a little extra time to get ready for the season. The Jackets still get the same 29 practices before the season opener, but they’ll squeeze in at least one additional practice between the opener and the BC game. 3) Tech gets more time to prepare for Miami than Miami gets to prepare for Tech. The Jackets have an open date the week before; the Hurricanes have another Thursday night game.
Aug. 28 Jacksonville State (Thu.) Sept. 6 at Boston College Sept. 13 at Virginia Tech Sept. 20 Mississippi State Oct. 4 Duke Oct. 11 Gardner-Webb Oct. 18 at Clemson Oct. 25 Virginia Nov. 1 Florida State Nov. 8 at North Carolina Nov. 20 Miami (Thu.) Nov. 29 at Georgia
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