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Georgia Tech Football: The Jackets Most Likely Scenario for 2020

By Dylan Callaghan-Croley

BLACKSBURG, VA - OCTOBER 25: A member of the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets cheerleading squad celebrates a touchdown against the Virginia Tech Hokies in the second half at Lane Stadium on October 25, 2018 in Blacksburg, Virginia. (Photo by Michael Shroyer/Getty Images)
BLACKSBURG, VA - OCTOBER 25: A member of the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets cheerleading squad celebrates a touchdown against the Virginia Tech Hokies in the second half at Lane Stadium on October 25, 2018 in Blacksburg, Virginia. (Photo by Michael Shroyer/Getty Images) /
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After discussing the worst case and best case scenarios for the Georgia Tech Football team in 2020, Yellow Jacked Up gives their mostly likely scenario for the Yellow Jackets this upcoming season.

Over the last two days, we’ve discussed both the worse case and best case scenarios for the Georgia Tech Football program for the 2020 season. In those articles, we decided that the Jackets worse case scenario would be a 1-11 record with a mere win over FCS program, Garnder-Webb. The best case scenario, on the other hand, would be a 6-6 record, which considering the circumstances would be quite the 2020 season for the Yellow Jackets.

We’ve broken down the Jackets schedule quite a bit in the last two scenario pieces, so we won’t go heavily into detail for this respective piece. Additionally, we’ll throw out the record right way, we believe that the Jackets most likely record in the 2020 season will be 5-7, though we are not ruling out a 4-8 season as well.

Here’s how we got to this record. First of all, we chalked their games against most likely top-10 teams in Clemson, Notre Dame, and Georgia as losses and that’s not taking anyway from the Jackets but it will be hard for any non top-10/15 program to defeat those teams in 2020.

Additionally, we think the Jackets will go 1-2 in their three games against UCF, North Carolina, and Virginia Tech. Going up against North Carolina and Virginia Tech both on the road in back-to-back weeks is going to be mighty difficult for a rather young team especially considering both should be top-25 teams this season. If the Jackets can grab a win one of those games, it will be a plus. The Jackets game against UCF is one the Jackets could definitely win but it won’t by any means by an easy one.

The bad news so far is that through the five games we discussed, we have the Jackets as 1-5. The good news, however, is in the remaining games we haven’t discussed, the Jackets would be going .500 at 3-3.

The six games we have yet to discuss are against Gardner Webb (Sep.12), Virginia (Oct.17),  at Pittsburgh (Oct. 24), at Syracuse (Oct. 31), Duke (Nov. 7), and Miami (Nov. 21). Their September matchup against Gardner-Webb is one that they should win quite easily. Their three-game stretch against Virginia, Pittsburgh, and Syracuse will be tough but winning two of three is every much in the cards for the Jackets. That really leaves games against Duke and Miami as wild-card games.

Both Duke and Miami are two teams that the Jackets could walk away with victories from but they are also two games that the Jackets could lose and it wouldn’t be all that surprising. For all intensive purposes, we’ll have the Jackets split these two games and therefore collecting a 4-8 record when it’s all said and done. Now, in order, here’s how we have the Jackets season going in 2020.

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Game 1 – vs Clemson: Loss (0-1)
Game 2 – vs Gardner-Webb: Win (1-1)
Game 3 – vs UCF: Win (2-1)
Game 4 – at North Carolina: Loss (2-2)
Game 5 – at Virginia Tech: Loss (2-3)
Game 6 – vs Virginia: Win (3-3)
Game 7 – at Pittsburgh: Loss (3-4)
Game 8 – at Syracuse: Win (4-4)
Game 9 – vs Duke: Win (5-4)
Game 10 – vs Notre Dame: Loss (5-7)
Game 11 – at Miami: Loss (5-7)
Game 12: vs Georgia: Loss (5-7)

Some readers may read this and would be happy with a 5-7 record for the Yellow Jackets in year two of the Geoff Collins era. Some fans may think this is a pessimistic view and while they may view it as that, I view as a realistic view.

Overall, a 4-8 or 5-7 record I believe would be a good step for the Georgia Tech program, especially considering Vegas currently has the Jackets over/under for the 2020 season at 2.5 wins. The Jackets making the strides many expected without spring practices will be difficult, add in there are still a ton of questions regarding when the 2020 season will be played and it can even be said that a 5-7 record would be too optimistic for the program.

In the end, the Yellow Jackets success in 2020 will mostly come down to their offensive performance, the defensive performance in 2019 was quality but the offense deeply lagged behind the defenses progresses and it showed as the season went on. If the offense is able to make those strides into 2020, then a 5-7 record is definite possibility in 2020.

So there you have, Yellow Jacked Up’s early prediction for the Jackets record in 2020 is currently leaning towards 5-7 though we believe at the least, the Jackets improve their 2019 record and go 4-8 in 2020.