1. Strange. Some games have a certain feel to them, a sense of inevitability about who the winner will be. This one did, too … the only difference for me being that I always seemed to be bouncing back and forth about who would win.

Perhaps that should not have surprised me. After all, coming into the game, I was bouncing back and forth on how the UVa defense would perform in the game against GT’s vaunted rushing attack. As I wrote last week: “There is a part of me that is pretty confident about how the Virginia defense will perform against the Georgia Tech offense – after all, UVa’s defense tends to play its assignments. There is a part of me that is pretty concerned about how the UVa defense will perform against the Georgia Tech offense – after all, UVa’s defense tends to struggle at times at the point of attack. So I think that means that I really have no idea what to expect on defense this next game.”

Things certainly did not look good after GT’s first touchdown drive, a drive in which the offense never had to put the ball into the air, instead rushing for 73 yards on the drive with an average of almost seven yards per carry. That was a drive, however, that the Yellow Jackets could never replicate, relying on a long pass completion (a great set and play call against the defense UVa had called on the play) on their second touchdown drive and never again getting into the end zone.

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