The tipped pass shot high into the air, and Josh Harvey-Clemons was thinking the same thing that lots of Georgia Bulldogs fans likely were thinking.
“I was thinking, ‘Aw, man, here we go again,’” Harvey-Clemons said.
Two weeks after Harvey-Clemons tipped a pass that Auburn took for the winning score, he got his hand on another important pass Saturday night at Georgia Tech.
Yellow Jackets quarterback Vad Lee’s pass in the second overtime that, if completed, would mean another overtime period with the extra point. Lee let go of the ball, Georgia linebacker Ramik Wilson tipped it and the ball caromed high into the air.
“It was up there for a while,” Wilson said. “I hit it as hard as I could trying to make a play.”
At least two other players appeared to tip the ball, including Harvey-Clemons, but the Bulldogs didn’t get burned this time.
The ball fell to the ground and ended the game with a 41-34 Georgia victory. That allowed Harvey-Clemons to exhale after the former Lowndes High star had taken heat for the play in the Auburn game.
“That’s been on my mind,” he said. “People talk bad about you in the media and Twitter and stuff. My family and my coaches did a good job of keeping me focused and having a short-term memory.”
It was a strong finish for Harvey-Clemons and the Bulldogs after a poor start put them in a 20-0 hole. Harvey-Clemons said he was responsible for one of Tech’s first-half touchdowns because he bit on a play fake.
But Harvey-Clemons made the game-saving play in the fourth quarter when he intercepted Lee’s pass and returned it to Tech’s 25-yard line. That set up Marshall Morgan’s 32-yard field goal that tied the score 27-27 with 4:17 left in regulation.
“I was really trying to score,” Harvey-Clemons said. “The whole game I was trying to make a play because I gave up a play.”
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