The focus is on Miami's mistakes, but Brent Key doesn't want anyone to forget about how Georgia Tech executed at the end

Georgia Tech defeated Miami in an unforgettable game on Saturday

Jackson Caudell | Oct 10, 2023

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The ending to the Georgia Tech vs Miami game has been the talk of college football since Saturday night. The main focus has been on Miami head coach Mario Cristobal and his decision to not kneel the ball and everything that Miami did to botch the game. There has not been a lot of mention about Georgia Tech and its ability to get down the field quickly and score on the Hurricanes.

Yellow Jackets head coach Brent Key does not want anyone to forget that.

"Another thing is, I got home and was getting ready to watch the game last night and someone on the TV last night was talking about our game and I told the team that there is this thing about talking about the decisions that were made on their sides of the ball that impacted the game and I told the team and the staff that it was you guys on the field and chose to play that down as hard as you could, you chose to play that down as hard as you could. If you listen to the noise, if you looked at the scoreboard, if you saw the timeouts that we did not have, if you saw the time on the clock, if one person on the defense plays at 90% or 95% on that last play, then we don't get the outcome that we like. We turned it around to go 75 yards in 26 seconds, to go that length of the field... If one person did not play the way that they can, if they had not played hard and played with everything that they have, if they had payed attention to what the clock said or the scoreboard said, then we would not have had that outcome. That is the way that I look at it. Our guys were the ones on the field and chose to play the way you're supposed to play. We challenged them to play 60 minutes and we had to wash a stigma off of us on this football team and we went out and did that."

It was such a massive coaching failure on the other side that it is easy to forget that Georgia Tech marched down the field in less than five plays to beat the No. 17 team in the country in incredible fashion. This Georgia Tech team showed a ton of fight on the last drive and in causing the fumble that led to the touchdown.

Now, Georgia Tech is on a bye week before they begin the second half of the season and Key talked about how the Yellow Jackets are going about their business, even though they do not have a game on Saturday:

"Good on good. There are certain numbers that we need to hit each day that began yesterday with a lift and a team run, a 30 minute team run, we watched the film and today we went out there in shoulder pads, and helmets and had 20-25 minutes of indy to really work on fundamentals and techniques of the game of football that we have to get bac to. Then we had good-on-good 7-on-7, pass rush, then we went to a corrections type of period, it was a 10-15 period of what offense and defense needed from the first six games, whether it was a certain blitz or a certain run scheme that we had seen before and hit on us and we went back and looked at those vs the scouts and then we had a special teams period and then we had a good-on-good competitive 1's vs 1's, 2's vs 2's and then the 3's went out there and did 3's vs 3's, we had a couple of competitive two-minute situations, about an hour and 20 minutes on the field and tomorrow we will go about two hours and 10 minutes of really the same model.

Thursday we will start to look at the opponent a little bit with a good portion of that being good-on-good to get ourselves better. We will hit those certain thresholds each day and if we hit those... the thing you don't want to do is lose conditioning. The one thing that I do believe we have done is play fast. Our team looks fresh for the most part in every game so we want to keep that going so we have to make sure we don't lose that conditioning, but also keep guys healthy and that time will come on Friday and Saturday to get rested up."

Georgia Tech returns to the field next Saturday at Bobby Dodd Stadium against Boston College (12:00 p.m. ACC network).

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