“Well, I’m disappointed in the outcome of the game, but I’m awfully proud of the football team. I thought they kept playing. Florida State is a very talented team, and you know, it was the kind of game where you couldn’t make a mistake. I mean, you had to play really clean, and to their credit, they did that, and we missed a couple turns, and we couldn’t make it up. That’s pretty much it in a nutshell, I guess, the way the game went.”
— Georgia Tech coach Paul Johnson
“I’m not sure anybody was really stopping anybody, if you want to know the truth. I mean, one stop was big. Both teams punted twice in the game, so there wasn’t a lot of stopping going on.”
— Johnson
“We tried to get some pressure from the outside. I think what we did is we forced them to kick a couple of field goals instead of touchdowns.”
— Johnson on defensive changes in the second half
“You know, we’ve had a pretty good little three-game stretch here and probably going to be a four-game stretch. … Depending on what happens (Sunday), I mean, we could end up with Clemson, Georgia, Florida State, Ohio State. Pretty good four-team parlay. And if it’s not Ohio State, it’s going to be somebody just like them. Yeah, I was proud of our team. There are no moral victories. We’re not into that. We wanted to win the game and are disappointed we didn’t win.”
— Johnson
“Yeah, I guess we just have that knowing where he’s going to be at all times, but we still came out today and had opportunities. Just sometimes we didn’t take advantage of them like we needed to.”
— Tech quarterback Justin Thomas on playing without wide receiver DeAndre Smelter
“They played one heck of a football game. We knew going in this thing was going to be very tough. They were probably as hot as anybody, playing extremely well this time of year, and Paul and his group have done a tremendous job. They’ve got one heck of a team.”
— Florida State coach Jimbo Fisher on Tech
“Before that drive, I told those boys that this is going to show your heart right here and going to show your will to win. Everybody answered and responded. It was good to get that touchdown. After that touchdown, I thought we were definitely still going to win the game.”
— Tech guard Shaquille Mason on the final touchdown drive
“We tried to mix it up. We tried to bring pressure and we did, played man, played zone. He just did a good job adjusting to it, buying time with his feet. A few times, he was able to get outside the pocket and just make something happen. The guy’s a good player. You’ve got to take your hat off to him.”
— Tech cornerback D.J. White on FSU quarterback Jameis Winston
