{"id":16791,"date":"2011-08-04T13:30:10","date_gmt":"2011-08-04T18:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=16791"},"modified":"2011-08-04T12:45:48","modified_gmt":"2011-08-04T17:45:48","slug":"2011-georgia-tech-yellow-jackets-college-football-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/2011-georgia-tech-yellow-jackets-college-football-preview-16791\/","title":{"rendered":"2011 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets College Football Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"

Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets<\/strong>
\n2010 record:\u00a0 6-7 overall, 4-4 conference<\/strong>
\n2010 Bowl Game:\u00a0 14-7 loss to Air Force in the Independence Bowl<\/strong>
\n2010 ATS:\u00a0 5-8<\/strong>
\n2010 O\/U:\u00a0 6-7<\/strong>
\nReturning starters:\u00a0 11 total (6 on offense, 5 on defense)<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Georgia Tech has gone 21-14-1 ATS under head coach Paul Johnson in his first three years<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Over the month of August, our team of writers will be previewing the top teams heading into an exciting 2011 campaign.\u00a0 The college football handicappers at Maddux Sports are also preparing and have season-long packages readily available for clients.\u00a0 Let\u2019s take a look at a school that was recently slapped by the NCAA and stripped of its 2009 ACC title during the offseason.<\/p>\n

Offense<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Head coach Paul Johnson\u2019s spread offense continues to pile up the yards and finished the 2010 campaign leading the nation.\u00a0 Georgia Tech became the first ACC school to accomplish that feat.<\/p>\n

Quite a disparity in numbers is found when examining the unit, as it averaged just 83.9 yards through the air, which ironically enough was last in college football.\u00a0 The coaching staff could care less due to having a running back named first team All-ACC in each of the last four years.<\/p>\n

Senior A-Back Roddy Jones is likely to continue the school\u2019s streak of having a 1,000-yard rusher for a sixth consecutive season, as he\u2019s averaged 7.46 yards on 186 carries over his three years in the offense.<\/p>\n

Junior quarterback Tevin Washington is the most likely choice to orchestrate Johnson\u2019s option attack, starting the final four games of the 2010 campaign.\u00a0 He will need to improve his accuracy to maintain that spot for the entire season, as he connected on just 41 percent of his passes last year.<\/p>\n

Defense<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Defensive coordinator Al Groh comes back for a second year and hopes his 3-4 defensive scheme improves upon a lackluster year.\u00a0 The Yellow Jackets lacked playmaking ability last year and allowed opponents to rack up 371.6 yards a game.<\/p>\n

An experienced defensive line is expected to be a strength and will allow a linebacking core led by Julian Burnett to roam free.\u00a0 Burnett made 89 tackles last year, but is also someone that lacks the necessary speed to run sideline to sideline.<\/p>\n

The front seven\u2019s success is critical in protecting a secondary that lost all four starters, but does have some experience.<\/p>\n

Special Teams<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Placekicker Justin Moore has huge shoes to fill in replacing Scott Blair, who ended up handling all three kicking responsibilities during the 2010 season.\u00a0 He played in the first two games last season, but didn\u2019t see the field from that point on.<\/p>\n

Senior Chandler Anderson is the most likely option at punter and has starting experience.\u00a0 He has accumulated 2,000 punting yards with eight boots of 50 yards or longer.<\/p>\n

Johnson has been quoted during the offseason that he\u2019s placing an emphasis on improving a kickoff and punt return team that ranked 97th in both categories a year ago.<\/p>\n

Against the Spread<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Despite costing bettors at the window last year, Georgia Tech is always a great source for winning money, as the team is 21-14-1 ATS during the Johnson era.\u00a0 The Yellow Jackets are 8-4 ATS as a road underdog over the last three years.<\/p>\n

Bet On<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Watch the college football lines page closely when the team heads off for a second consecutive road game against Miami (FL) on October 22.\u00a0 The squad will test its 6-0 ATS mark in the second of back-to-back road games in that contest.<\/p>\n

Fade Away<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Alumni are tired of throwing away money when playing rival Georgia on the road, failing to cover the number in six consecutive tries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets 2010 record:\u00a0 6-7 overall, 4-4 conference 2010 Bowl Game:\u00a0 14-7 loss to Air Force in the Independence Bowl 2010 ATS:\u00a0 5-8 2010 O\/U:\u00a0 6-7 Returning starters:\u00a0 11 total (6 on offense, 5 on defense) Over the month of August, our team of writers will be previewing the top teams heading into […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":3959,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[200,1444],"tags":[387,5106,1282,3589,5104,5105],"class_list":["post-16791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-football","category-headlines","tag-acc","tag-al-groh","tag-georgia-tech-yellow-jackets","tag-paul-johnson","tag-roddy-jones","tag-tevin-washington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/181"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16791"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16795,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16791\/revisions\/16795"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}