It's the 10th anniversary of Georgia Tech's split national championship, not that anyone notices, so busy are they frothing at the mouth over Georgia's supposed breakthrough season. It's breakthrough, all right. This Georgia team that lost to the South Carolina Chickens. Quincy Carter threw six interceptions all last year and five last Saturday in Columbia against the Gamecocks, who had only the week earlier posted their first win after 21 consecutive losses. The Bees, meanwhile, gave old granddad Bobby Bowden's Seminoles all they could handle.
Tech is where Georgia was a year ago.
That is, they are a young team. O'Leary was expecting the Jackets to be late and out of position on defense. That's what young teams do. O'Leary's one wish going into the Florida State game was that somehow his team could find a way to get into the fourth quarter. They did that.