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Georgia Tech Football: Jackets Showdown Against Miami Cancelled

By Dylan Callaghan-Croley

CHESTNUT HILL, MASSACHUSETTS - OCTOBER 24: Head coach Geoff Collins of the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets reacts during the second half against the Boston College Eagles at Alumni Stadium on October 24, 2020 in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts. (Photo by Maddie Malhotra/Getty Images)
CHESTNUT HILL, MASSACHUSETTS - OCTOBER 24: Head coach Geoff Collins of the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets reacts during the second half against the Boston College Eagles at Alumni Stadium on October 24, 2020 in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts. (Photo by Maddie Malhotra/Getty Images) /
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Georgia Tech’s football game against the Miami Hurricanes next week has been cancelled due to COVID issues within the Yellow Jackets program.

It is just not in the cards for the Georgia Tech football program to play the Miami Hurricanes this season. On Friday, it was announced that the Yellow Jackets game next weekend against the Miami Hurricanes has been canceled.

Earlier this season, the Yellow Jackets had the game postponed to this upcoming weekend due to COVID-19 issues within the Miami program. However, this time around, the Jackets’ own COVID-19 issues are the reason for the canceling. With no weeks remaining in the season for the game to be rescheduled, the cancellation officially means Georgia Tech’s 2020 season is over in all likelihood following their 34-20 loss to the Pittsburgh Panthers on Thursday night.

While the Jackets could theoretically still make a bowl game this season, it seems unlikely at this juncture. The Jackets will finish the season at 3-7 on the year, matching their win total from last year when they went 3-9 in Geoff Collins’s first year as head coach of the program. Collins through two years is now a combined 6-16 as Tech’s head coach.

If the season is truly over, the Jackets certainly showed a good amount of growth in key areas, they also still have plenty to work on this upcoming offseason in order to make vast improvements going into next season. The biggest question entering the offseason is how offseason workouts especially spring practices will work this spring. With COVID-19 still a major cause for concern across the country and COVID-related numbers projections looking bleak, how much will the Jackets be able to work on in the offseason? The lack of a true offseason in terms of practicing and workouts this past offseason hurt the Jackets in various ways and probably hurt their overall chances of making strides they were originally expected to make.

That being said, the Jackets still enter the offseason with a lot of promise for the future. They have a young and growing quarterback in Jeff Sims who showed a lot of growth as the season went on, they have a talented and mostly young backfield, a developing wide receiver group (though hit hard by the transfer of Ahmarean Brown), an offensive line that took steps forward, and generally a defense that has some promising pieces but needs more time to grow.