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Georgia Tech Football: Yellow Jackets Best Case Scenario for 2020

By Dylan Callaghan-Croley

DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA - OCTOBER 12: Head coach Geoff Collins of the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets reacts during the first half of their game against the Duke Blue Devils at Wallace Wade Stadium on October 12, 2019 in Durham, North Carolina. (Photo by Grant Halverson/Getty Images)
DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA - OCTOBER 12: Head coach Geoff Collins of the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets reacts during the first half of their game against the Duke Blue Devils at Wallace Wade Stadium on October 12, 2019 in Durham, North Carolina. (Photo by Grant Halverson/Getty Images) /
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Yesterday, we presented our worse case scenario for the Georgia Tech football program in 2020. In that worse case scenario, we were quite frank that the Yellow Jackets have one of the toughest schedules in all of college football next season. Add in the uncertainties currently surrounding the 2020 season and the lack of spring football, it will be hard for the Yellow Jackets to make the vast improvements that everyone is expecting.

With that, we came to the conclusion that the Jackets worse case scenario is 1-11 next season with a lone win over FCS program Garnder-Webb. Today, however, we try to figure out what the best scenario would be the Yellow Jackets in year two under Geoff Collins.

To start off, there are three games in 2020 that we see the Yellow Jackets losing in almost any scenario though an unlikely upset is always possible. Those three games would be against Clemson, against Notre Dame, and against Georgia. Each of those three programs in 2020 will be among the nation’s best and it will truly take a miracle to pull off upsets in each.

From here, let’s go to the start of the season and break it down. As we’ve noted before, the Yellow Jackets start the season against Clemson, a game we’ve already marked as a loss. Following Clemson, they’ll take on Garnder-Webb, a game that the Yellow Jackets most definitely should win.

Following Gardner-Webb, the Jackets have a three-game stretch against UCF, at North Carolina, and at Virginia Tech. All three of those teams in 2020 will be at the least above average, but for best case scenario, let’s say the Yellow Jackets manage to go 2-1 in this stretch. They’ll enter their buy week in this case at 3-2 on the season.

Following their bye week, they get the Virginia Cavaliers at home, it will be their first home game in a month. Despite Virginia being quite a talented team, we’ll give the Yellow Jackets a victory for home field advantage. Next are two road games against Pittsburgh and Syracuse, we’ll allow the Jackets to split these two games and improve their record to 5-3 on the season.

Finally, there is the four-game stretch to end the season. In that four game stretch, the Jackets will be at home against Duke, a neutral site game against Notre Dame (Mercedes-Benz Stadium), at home against Miami, and on the road at Georgia. All in all, the best case scenario during this stretch and the most realistic is the Jackets go 1-3 in this stretch, bringing their record to 6-6 on the season.

With that, you can see that the best case scenario realistically would be a 6-6 season for the Yellow Jackets, a three-win improvement from the 2019 season. A 6-6 season would certainly be a success for the Yellow Jackets and a major victory for Geoff Collins in his rebuilding of the program.

Tomorrow, we’ll be back as we present our “most likely” option, which will be what we think the Yellow Jacket’s 2020 season will play out like.