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One of the best times of the year is upon us.
March Madness begins this week and there will be non-stop basketball on for the rest of the week. The NCAA Tournament is unique in that it has 64 teams competing for the national championship and all of those teams invite chaos every single season. While the college football playoff is set to expand to 14 teams starting in 2026, it is interesting to wonder what a 64-team college football playoff bracket would look like if one existed in 2024.
Where would Georgia Tech land in a projected 64-team bracket? ESPN's Chris Low recently made a bracket for the 2024 college football season and had the Yellow Jackets projected as a No. 13 seed facing No. 4 seed LSU in the Midwest Regional:
"(4) LSU 20, (13) Georgia Tech 14: It's the SEC vs. the ACC in this first-round game that is played in a driving rainstorm. The teams combine to turn the ball over six times, and both defenses make stops with their backs at the goal line. The Tigers hold on to advance after a fourth-down pass into the end zone by Georgia Tech's Haynes King is batted away."
Here is how Low came up with the seeding:
"Here's the format: We've seeded the teams 1 through 64, and the seeds are based largely on ESPN's latest SP+ projections for the 2024 season.
The top four seeds are Georgia, Ohio State, Oregon and Texas (only Texas made the actual four-team playoff field a year ago). With the Longhorns being the fourth No. 1 seed, they will be forced to travel to the East Region.
Seeds are just seeds, and all that matters is what happens on the field, so get ready for some upsets. We'll do our best to create some compelling storylines, even though the basketball committee insists it doesn't engage in such contrived methods when putting together its bracket.
We've done our homework and looked over the rosters, especially with so many new faces at new schools -- not to mention Nick Saban and Jim Harbaugh no longer coaching in the college ranks -- but we always endeavor to have a little fun."
Georgia Tech is coming off of a 2023 campaign that saw them finish with a winning record and a bowl win. There is hope that with the return of the majority of its starters on one of the ACC's best offenses and an improved defensive staff, the Yellow Jackets could be an ACC dark horse coming into the 2024 season.
The Yellow Jackets finished with the ACC's best rushing attack and while their passing game was solid, Georgia Tech offensive coordinator Buster Faulkner thinks they can be more explosive than they were a year ago:
"Well, I think the next step of everything with me revolves around winning. And what do we got to do to continue to win games and take that next step forward and be able to compete for an ACC championship? And the most exciting thing about it is we got a lot of guys back, right? And then we got a lot of guys here that were early enrollees that we signed in January and so I think we've got like 38 of the 43 guys that are on scholarship going into the fall already here. So just continuing to build continuity. Obviously, it's a new season, but we did last year. It doesn't matter right? So we're just looking to improve every day. We obviously got to be more explosive, be more explosive in the passing game, and continue to run the football. That's going to be who we are."
Faulkner thinks the Yellow Jackets have the pieces in place to make that happen too:
"Yeah, and I do think at times last year really, you know, we were explosive in the passing game. but that goes hand -in -hand all 11 right that's not just the quarterback that's not just the receivers that's the line the tight ends and protection and the running backs as well so yeah we got to be more explosive do we have the pieces yes I believe we have the pieces but that's not just the pieces on the perimeter. That's pieces up front and then also in the backfield and at tight end so to be able to make it all go we need all 11."
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