Kickoff Time, TV Channel Set For Georgia Tech's Week Seven Game vs Virginia Tech

Interesting Matchup

After starting their season 0-3 and firing head coach Brent Pry, Virginia Tech has gotten their first couple of wins over the past two weeks. They defeated Wofford 38-6 in the first game under head coach Phillip Montgomery and then they pulled a big upset over the weekend over NC State. While this team still has plenty of flaws, they are playing inspired football and it is not a game that Georgia Tech can take lightly.

The Yellow Jackets and Hokies were perennial ACC Coastal Division powers, with the two teams combining to finish atop the Coastal standings 11 times (six for VT, five for GT) in the 17 seasons that the conference was split into divisions for football (2005-19, 2021-22).

Following its 30-29 overtime win at Wake Forest on Saturday, Georgia Tech (5-0, 2-0 ACC) is one of just 20 NCAA Division I FBS teams (out of 136 total) that enters October with an unbeaten record. Tech’s 5-0 start is its best since 2014 and one of only four 5-0 starts for the Jackets the last 59 seasons (1990, 2011, 2014, and 2025).

Winning without playing their best

It is fair to say that Georgia Tech has not played a complete game up to this point. They stumbled out of the gate with three turnovers on the first three possessions against Colorado, two turnovers on their first two possessions against Gardner-Webb, and being outgained against Wake Forest over the weekend. With the bye week coming on Saturday, head coach Brent Key feels it is coming at the right time for his team:

“Yes. Yes. We've got to recharge. We've got to mentally get ourselves back and ready to go. You know, the physical part, yes, everyone, you know, thinks about the physical part, but the mental grind of it, you know, as it starts to mount, as the season starts to mount. So, yeah, it could come at a better time. I'm very excited, you know, very, very fortunate we are as a team, but also really happy and excited that we're able to come out of this with a win and finish off that first part of the season. We're in the endurance phase now of the season. We're in that endurance phase. Everybody comes out the gate sprinting. In the last third of the season, you see the finish line. But this middle part, that's the endurance phase.

Endurance doesn't mean taking it easy. It doesn't mean coasting through it. Endurance is that you're out in the middle of the ocean, you swim all the way out there, and now you turn around and it's just as far to go back, and you can't see either side. That's endurance now. We've got to have that for the next four or five weeks. Then we get into that final sprint towards the end. There's a big test of our identity as a football team today. We talked about that prior. We all just saw last night how quickly it can disappear. I'm proud of these guys for the way they played the second half and the way they finished the game.”