Ultimate College Football Preview, 130 Teams In A 130 Days: Georgia Tech

Welcome to the Ultimate College Football Preview for 2023. Every team in FBS Football will be covered in this daily blog release. All of your favorite teams from the ACC, AAC, Big 12, Big 10, C-USA, MAC, Mountain West, PAC 12, SEC, Sun Belt & even every Independent. Think of these daily college football previews as a cheat sheet going into next year.

2022 Recap:

It was a tough year for the Ramblin’ Wreck. Their coach, Geoff Collins was fired after a 1-3 start to the year. They did finish decent ending up with a 5-7 overall record. One bright side is they did end up .500 at 4-4 in conference play which is a silver lining after a year of shit. The team was just not competitive the first 4 weeks of the year losing 3 games by an average of 30 points. Once the change at coach was made Georgia Tech woke up and played competitive and even winning football from the middle of the year on.

Head Coach:

As stated before Geoff Collins was replaced by new head coach Brent Key after the first quarter of the season. Key was the Assistant Head Coach and Offensive Line coach before taking over for Collins. He has been at Georgia Tech since 2019 before he had a stop as Offensive Line Coach at Alabama from 2016-2018. Before that he was at UCF as Assistant Head Coach and O-Line Coach from 2009 til 2016. He preaches hard nose run the ball and play defense football. Leading the Ramblin’ Wreck to a 4-4 season, he has a lot to prove to keep his place in Atlanta.

Key Players:

Let’s be honest this team was dog shit on offense. Their one playmaker Jeff Sims at Quarterback transferred out of Georgia Tech. They did however get once highly touted QB Haynes King in the portal who is expected to start. Their best weapon coming back is RB Dontae Smith who had 420 yards rushing and 5 touchdowns. All of their starting Wr’s will be new weapons and are unproven. The defense does return a good amount of starters and contributors from last year. The only issue is their defense was ranked 84th in points allowed. They will need unknown guys to step up and become leaders and playmakers on both sides of the ball.

2023 Prediction:

The Wreck have a very difficult Non-Conference schedule playing @ Ole Miss and vs. home state rival Georgia. Looking at the teams in conference and what the Yellow Jackets have on both sides of the ball it doesn’t look great. I would expect them to win 5 games 6 at the most. If this team goes bowling this year that is a huge win for the program.