Georgia Tech SHOCKS Florida State, biggest win EVER for Brent Key l College Football Podcast

on the one side Brian disaster for Florida State to begin their 2024 campaign but holy smokes Georgia Tech was impressive and certainly Florida state did not play the way that on paper they are capable of we'll see if they rebound and how they rebound throughout the course of this year but my goodness from the opening drive Florida State goes down the field and you think okay here we go yeah Florida Florida State's going to take and Georgia Tech had a response over and over and over again hannes King was phenomenal took care of the football almost fumbled it once actually almost fumbled it twice but was able to get back on the ball I mean he he was great the offensive line was spectacular I was really impressed with this Georgia Tech Team th this didn't look like a like a fluke like they're going to end the year five and seven you look back and go oh wow how did they beat Florida State no this Georgia Tech team is one that people are going to have to pay attention to I think that they'll be they've given their blueprint is the only thing that they've done that is unfortunate for them they're going to see some stacked defenses and it's obvious they do not trust their o line in pass protection and I based on the limited Supply I don't think they should but Florida State's front can really rush the passer too so they're going to have some struggles with that at some points but you're not going to out tough them you're certainly not going to just out skill they got speed at receiver and I tell you what Haynes is fast could catch he is a pain he's probably one of the smaller guys at ironic he plays a little bit like War dun old school Forida State player at somewh size they are annoying I just read a quote from saan uh from game day talking about they were my sleeper pick this and that that Nick Sabin guy might have a future um but at the same time like everything about the way they played they played to their strengths they they came in all in knowing they weren't going to pass protect well against Florida State they admitted it they just played with their strengths and if it didn't work it didn't work here we come try and stop us little side note you mentioned Well Done by hannes King it's one thing to see a guy like him in practice and you have somebody on the scout team that tries to resemble you can't do it he is ridiculously fast there were two or three times Florida state had the edge and the guy didn't even touch him he just ran around I mean just they did everything right and he got outside yeah that is really hard to suck up because there could have been a couple like most quarterbacks that's second and 13 second and 15 it was second and seven second and five that's the difference between night and day hats off and there a few plays too he just grinded it out where he got he got shellacked and he still got an extra yard he still fell forward if you're a Georgia Tech fan you got to tip your cap to him as you and I noted last week he had 16 Picks last year not exactly good no turnovers and he was resilient and let resilient team with no turnovers and they win at the end it's it's a great turnaround and a great story for Georgia Tech yeah I mean he was a highly tied recruit one time Texas A&M commit for a reason I think he really put that on display and sure there were some Havoc moments because the offensive line was not doing amazing in pass protection but he made plays he made big throws when he needed to I thought his best throw of the day was I think it was like a third and eight third and 11 or so when the game when the game was tight and and he hits the guy over the middle ball was right on the money but this is the yeah yeah yeah and he got hit like he he was fantastic but I wanna I want to talk about Brent key here because he takes over as the interim a couple of years ago they hire him as the full-time he has a solid year one we we recently talked about the recruiting win they had in the 25 cycle with five-star offensive tackle Josh Petty this is the biggest win of his career I mean this is not Miami didn't take a this is not Miami didn't take a knee so you get to go down have a miracle win no this is you you showed up at the same time same place all was good like conditions were whatever whatever they were they just showed up and beat him I I mean this is a statement Victory from Brent key to go to Ireland beat the preseason number 10 team in the country that's a big time marker for the yellow jackets I think it's a great story because it shows that it doesn't take that long especially with the portal to change things he's made good decisions with the off season on how they attacked it okay like we said a minute ago offensive line really good running not so much with the pass protection so it's lean on that so that's a good thing they worked on but they also went out they had problems on defense getting romela Hy how good does that look now how about the defensive coordinator Tyler santui I mean oh he he was in his bag tonight or today yeah he he called some really good blitzes there was a overhead shot that ESPN does we don't get enough of the it's not the same as all 20 is vertical they were just in a soft cover two shell the safety at the very last second remember now DJ's a grad to he's seen everything starts charging down and they rotate in the one high safety man defense that's NFL stuff you don't see that at a Georgia teag very often they don't have very good defense and Florida State didn't adjust that was a third down critical play and they got to stop that's how you win games that's why you get paid a watch money for the record he's an Elco disciple he was at Notre Dame went to te went to A&M then went with him to Duke Duke DC last year when they were good now he's at Tech this guy won't be at Tech long as my guess somebody gonna pay him a lot of money in the SEC I bet yeah he he had a phenomenal game he held DJ under 200 yards passing and I mean to hold the Florida state offense you know you and I had had the game score prediction 3421 in favor of FSU and pretty darn close with what we expected from Georgia Tech within a field goal but for Florida State a and to have a former five-star quarterback and you know Malik Benson at wide receiver and Roy Del Williams in the back field and the offensive line they've got to hold them to 21 points that that was just a master class I thought from from Tyler SCI because uh he he was he was phenomenal and Georgia Tech was really good across the board but let's look to the next step Brian for for Georgia Tech they should be ranked next week when the new AP poll comes out uh you beat the preseason number 10 team you better be at least inside the top 15 because that that didn't feel overly fluky to me that felt like yeah they just went out on the field and showed they can play with a team who people expect to be at an ACC Championship sort of level I think Georgia Tech if you look up and say they won eight nine games at the end of the year I won't be surprised I don't think they'll be top 15 for two reasons people have things in their head they they just still won't believe it that's just college football people are stubborn whether you're right or wrong I'm not I'm not saying my guess is they won't be but I'm not saying you're wrong I just know know enough voters they're pretty stubborn but you're right this is a chance for a team to kind of turn the program around by the way recruiting ought to be better for George Deck moving forward this pretty easy to sell I can only imagine the pamphlets they're goingon to mail out this week yeah because they're recruiting it's forward St constantly in the Atlanta area constantly but to your point though overall don't discount them being being a contender in the ACC now if you can grind out and hit with Florida State why can't you grind out and hit I I have no idea what their schedule is as far as the ACC it's brutal it like it it's it's incredibly brutal but I mean you have a head-to-head Now with uh with Florida State so you could drop two games in League Play and still be ahead of the seminal there their their season's going to be defined in uh the end of October to early November listen to this stretch Brian Notre Dame at home at Virginia Tech and then hosting my Miami and NC State you go two and2 in those games boy it feels like you're doing something right they also have to play Georgia the last week of the regular season on the road so I'm going to put that one in the Lost column still but I would I mean I would have put this Florida State game in the Lost column but Georgia's much better than uh Florida State for for many reasons so they've got at least one loss on there but if they go two and two in that stretch if they bring this level a play every week gosh eight and four n and three feels like it's really really attainable and boy that would be an out standing Mark for the yellow jackets I think it is obtainable here's the biggest key for them and I hate saying this out loud because I feel like I'm a harbinger of things to come for any team what's the number one predictor of wins and losses Spencer it's the category that Vegas wants college football to make mandatory injury reports oh oh injury reports yeah I was I was getting I I was on yards per play first but then you said make mandatory yeah injury report it's injuries yeah when you play that stretch that you just mentioned Notre Dame is a super physical team y State's a super physical team like they're going to get beat up two and two I think would be optim they're gonna they're not going to be the same team although they beat Florida State today there's going to be attrition the chances them playing as good next week I have no idea they play Don't Care Georgia state Georgia State they got they got a really good guy who was coaching at at Georgia but whatever they're going to beat them but they're not going to play near as well how you rolve yourself around this taking that attritions part of and here's the other they were the hunter today against Georgia State and a bunch of other teams what are they going to be Spencer The Hunted