Georgia Tech is getting another former Bulldog in the transfer portal. Former Georgia tight end Ryland Goede has committed to the Yellow Jackets for his final year of eligibility.
Goede (6 feet, 6 inches, 240 pounds) was a part of the Bulldogs’ 2019 recruiting class. He was the No. 9 tight end in the state.
The Acworth, Georgia, native spent four years in Athens as a reserve player before transferring to Mississippi State last season, joining his wife, who plays volleyball.
Goede joins former Georgia assistant Buster Faulkner, who serves as offensive coordinator, and former Bulldogs Brett Seither and Dominick Blaylock in Atlanta.
Goede will face his former team next season on Nov. 30 in Athens.
Damon Stoudamire picks up a big win as the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets defeat the Mississippi State Bulldogs in the ACC SEC challenge.
No one expected Damon Stoudamire to turn the Georgia Tech basketball program around right away.
The Yellow Jackets have been to just one NCAA Tournament since 2011, typically sitting near the bottom of the standings in the ACC – which included going a combined 11-29 the past two years in conference play.
However, after back-to-back losses to UMass Lowell and Cincinnati, coach Stoudamire picked up a signature win on Tuesday at home against the No. 22 ranked Mississippi State Bulldogs – never trailing in a 67-59 victory during the ACC/SEC challenge.
Neither team was particularly efficient from the field but Tech was able to win the battle on the boards and converted 17 of their 23 free throw attempts.
Meanwhile, the Bulldogs went 7-30 from beyond the arc and had just five assists and 13 turnovers, which allowed Georgia Tech to post a 16-5 advantage in points off turnovers.
Stoudamire added freshman guard Naithan George to the starting lineup for the first time in this contest, and he responded with 11 points, four rebounds, and an assist while complimenting leading scorer Miles Kelly, who dropped 22 with 12 rebounds and an assist.
“I’ve been seeing him coming and playing well for a long time,” Stoudamire said of George, per ESPN. “He’s wore on me. I like the way he plays. I like the way guys play with him. … I know there’s going to be ups and downs. I’m OK with that.”
The Yellow Jackets will have another opportunity for a huge win on Saturday when they host No. 7 Duke. The tip-off is set for 2:15 p.m. ET.
Oklahoma rises to 12 in the newest AP Poll after defeating TCU on Friday.
With the regular season ending on Saturday, the College Football Playoff picture is clearing up. And the 82 teams set to play in a bowl have been solidified.
For Oklahoma, Saturday was a tease. Sooner fans sat and watched as BYU blew a 24-6 lead to the Oklahoma State Cowboys in a game that, had the Cougars won, would’ve sent the Sooners to the Big 12 title game.
The Cowboys came back and won in double overtime, punching their ticket to the Big 12 Championship game, where they will take on Texas.
The Sooners now focus on figuring out what bowl game they will play in. If the latest AP Top 25 indicates anything, they still have an outside shot at playing in a New Year’s Six Bowl game.
The Oklahoma Sooners come in at No. 12 in the latest AP Poll. The Sooners moved up a spot following Louisville’s loss to Kentucky. As we head into conference championship game weekend, here is how things shake.
At No. 1 remains Georgia, who comfortably dispatched Georgia Tech over the holiday weekend.
Michigan is No. 2 after they pulled off their third straight win over rival Ohio State in a defacto playoff game that eliminated the Buckeyes from CFP contention. Washington, Florida State, and Oregon moved up and round out the top five.
Washington escaped near disaster as they pulled off a win in the Apple Cup against in-state rival Washington State. This sets up another defacto playoff game between Oregon and Washington. The winner of the Pac-12 title will earn a spot in the CFP.
Ohio State sits at six, while Texas, Alabama, and Missouri remain at seven, eight, and nine, respectively. Penn State replaces Louisville at No. 10, while Lane Kiffin’s Ole Miss Rebels sit above Oklahoma at No. 11.
LSU and Arizona are the two teams behind the Sooners as Louisville slips to No. 15 ahead of their ACC title game against Florida State next Saturday.
Oklahoma State moved up two spots to No. 19 despite fighting for their Big 12 lives against BYU. One of Oklahoma’s nonconference opponents from earlier this year, SMU, came in at No. 25 in the AP Poll.
Oklahoma’s defeat of TCU secured another 10-win season and marked the 59th time they were undefeated at home. The Sooners saw a net gain of 8 spots from their ranking in the preseason AP Top 25. A win would likely guarantee they finish inside the top 10 for the first time since 2020.
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Host J.C. Shelton is joined by former Georgia Bulldog Arthur Lynch ahead of UGA versus Georgia Tech!
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Lynch never lost to the Yellow Jackets during his time in Athens (5-0). He details the rivalry from his perspective and shares some stories along the way.
Colson Brown is thankful he was being nosy in the training room one day.
Colson Brown is thankful he was being nosy in the training room one day.
The walk-on true freshman quarterback at Georgia Tech was receiving treatment one day on his shoulder, and Yellow Jackets’ men’s golf coach Bruce Heppler was also in there talking with trainer Mark Smith. The duo were discussing golf and Brown chimed in.
“I can’t really recall when I found out I was playing at Cypress Point,” said Brown, who won a state championship in high school at North Augusta, South Carolina. “I think it sunk in the day before we left where I was going to play.”
Once Brown introduced himself to Heppler and heard of Heppler needing another player for a tournament this week, Brown expressed his interest in playing. Georgia Tech was committed to two tournaments and needed 11 total players while only having 10 available due to one redshirting.
Brown showed the coach videos of his swing and gave him his number. A couple weeks later is when Heppler called, saying he cleared everything with the football coaches for Brown to join the golf team in California earlier this week.
“I started going to practice at their facility on Tuesdays and Thursdays,” Brown said. “I knew my swing was in a good spot, but I just didn’t want to go out there and embarrass myself.”
The Georgia Tech golf team took him in. He practiced with the likes of Christo Lamprecht, No. 2 in the World Amateur Golf Rankings, and others from the 2023 national runner-up squad. All of this while having football practice and classes.
“The guys took me in and made me feel really comfortable,” Brown said.
A couple days before leaving, Heppler called Brown into his office and provided him with all the gear he would need for the tournament: a golf bag, travel bag, shirts and hats, and even more.
Colson Brown at the 2023 Cypress Point Classic. (Photo: Georgia Tech)
Brown hopped on a plane and traveled to the Monterey Peninsula. The tournament consisted of six players from each team playing match play in three sessions: foursomes, four-ball and singles.
The first day was 36 holes, starting with foursomes. Brady Rackley was paired with Brown, and though the duo fell 4 and 3 to Texas’ Tommy Morrison and Jacob Sosa, it was a memorable morning.
“Tommy and I talked a lot during the day,” Brown said. “Everyone sort of knew the circumstances, and everyone was great to me the whole time.”
The duo was paired again in four-ball but fell 2 and 1 to Auburn. When he finally looked at his phone after the long day, he couldn’t believe the thousands of notifications waiting for him.
“People were so jealous of me and calling me the luckiest man in America,” Brown said. “I guess it still hasn’t set in.”
On Tuesday was singles, where Brown faced Illinois’ Piercen Hunt. He fell 9 and 7, but again, said Hunt was great to play against and provided great commentary through the round.
Brown returned and got back into his routine Wednesday, and his football teammates had nothing but questions for him when he returned.
Brown said he enjoyed getting to see the difference in how the golf team and football team interacted with each other, but he is thrilled with how supportive the golf team was of him stepping in and how accepting the football team was of him being gone.
Now, Brown has one heckuva story to tell for the rest of his life, and he’s got plenty of Georgia Tech golf equipment (that Heppler let him keep) to prove it.
“I really cant say that I was Tiger Woods out there,” Brown said, “but I hit the ball about as well as I could’ve considering the circumstances.”
Colson Brown traded in his shoulder pads and helmet for his golf clubs.
Georgia Tech freshman quarterback Colson Brown hasn’t played a snap for the Yellow Jackets this fall. However, he did participate in the starting lineup for the Ramblin’ Wreck at one of the most famed venues in the world.
This week, he traded in his shoulder pads and helmet for his golf clubs.
Georgia Tech committed to two events this week, the first being the East Lake Cup at Atlanta Athletic Club. The other being the Cypress Point Classic at, you guessed it, famed Cypress Point, No. 2 on Golfweek’s Best 2023 for top Classic Courses in the United States.
The Yellow Jackets needed five players for its lineup at the East Lake Cup, which is where their top five went. In California, Georgia Tech needed six, however, with junior Ben Reuter redshirting this season, there were only five available bodies.
Enter Brown, who played high school golf at North Augusta High School in South Carolina, just across the river from Augusta, Georgia. The 6-foot-4 Brown stepped in so Georgia Tech didn’t have to withdraw from the tournament it won in 2019.
The Cypress Point Classic is a two-day, Walker Cup-style event with foursomes and fourball sessions on Monday and singles Tuesday.
Brown lost both his matches on Monday. Playing with Brady Rackley, they fell 4-and-3 in foursomes to Tommy Morrison and Jacob Sosa from Texas and then lost to Auburn’s Brendan Valdes and Reed Lotter in fourball, 2 and 1.
On Tuesday, Brown will lead off for the Yellow Jackets, taking on Illinois’ Piercen Hunt in singles.
While the rest of Georgia Tech’s football team is preparing for its game against Virginia, its freshman quarterback is playing one of the most famous courses in the world while representing his school. Not a bad start to the week.
With all the focus on Florida State and North Carolina up top, which ACC teams are fighting for bowl eligibility over the next month?
There’s plenty of reason to be excited about the upcoming six weeks in the ACC. All signs seem to indicate that the conference champion won’t be Clemson for just the second time since 2014 after the Tigers took two early losses. Florida State and North Carolina are both still undefeated and seem to get more dominant each week, with both circling the conference championship game as a potential ticket to the playoffs.
But what about the middle of the conference pack? As the Seminoles and Tar Heels fight for a New Year’s Six bowl, who of their conference compatriots simply want to win a sixth game?
Here are four teams deep in the fight for eligibility over the next two months.
Penn State will take part in a college basketball triple header iin Madison Square Garden this December. Here’s who they will play.
The first season of Penn State men’s basketball under new head coach Mike Rhoades will be here before you know it. The Nittany Lions now have a complete regular season schedule ready to roll with the addition of a non-conference matchup to take place in Madison Square Garden this December.
Penn State announced it will face Georgia Tech in a non-conference matchup in New York City’s Madison Square Garden on Saturday, Dec. 16. The game will be played at noon and will air on Big Ten Network.
Penn State’s game with Georgia Tech is part of a triple-header of college basketball. Following the Penn State-Georgia Tech game, St. John’s will face Fordham in men’s basketball, and then St. John’s will face Villanova in women’s basketball to cap off the day.
The meeting with Georgia Tech will be the first between the two schools since a regular season contest in the Bryce Jordan Center in 2016 as part of the ACC/Big Ten Challenge. With the ACC/Big Ten Challenge now put to rest, it is good to see Penn State find room on the schedule to play a team from the ACC. And to get a chance to play in the world’s most famous arena is always a highlight to the schedule when available.
Penn State ha enjoyed its opportunities in Madison Square Garden over the years. Penn State won the 2018 NIT the last time the Nittany Lions visited the arena.
Miami gifted Georgia Tech the football and it turned into a victory for the Yellow Jackets
Miami had the ball. The Hurricanes had the lead over Georgia Tech. The Yellow Jackets had no timeouts.
The Hurricanes simply had to take a knee with the clocking ticking toward the 30-second mark and they would escape with an ACC victory.
Mario Cristobal’s team somehow ran a play, Donald Chaney Jr. fumbled, Kyle Kennard of Tech recovered and what happened next shouldn’t have been unexpected given the preposterous call by the Hurricanes.
Haynes King threw a pass that found a wide-open Christian Leary behind the Miami secondary.
Leary made it to the end zone and the touchdown with a second left gave Georgia Tech the improbable 23-20 victory.
“That’s one of the biggest coaching mistakes at this level that I have ever seen in my lifetime.”
Miami could’ve taken a knee and closed out Georgia Tech. Instead … disaster struck 😳 pic.twitter.com/I5vAvtn78p
Georgia Tech coach Brent Key delivered a quote for the ages:
Never change, Brent Key. When asked for his thoughts on the last 26 seconds of the game, he said:
“I usually have a pretty good recollection of the game, but what does Will Farrell say in “Old School?” I think I just blacked out. That’s what I felt like right then.”
Mario Cristobal gets roasted after coaching decision ends in embarrassing loss
Were you an Oregon Ducks fan watching college football on Saturday night, and suddenly you felt a wave of deja vu wash over you while watching the end of the Miami Hurricanes vs. Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets game?
That’s not surprising.
Mario Cristobal and the Hurricanes lost a game in historic fashion, and the internet is loudly calling for Cristobal to lose his job for the coaching malpractice that took place.
If you’re unaware of what I’m talking about, let me try to sum it up:
Miami had a 3-point lead over Georgia Tech, with the ball, while the Yellow Jackets had no timeouts left with under a minute to play. Instead of taking a knee and ending the game, Cristobal decided to run the ball, and his team fumbled.
Georgia Tech recovered and then proceeded to go 74 yards in 26 seconds and win the game with a last-second TD.
It was bad.
What makes things worse is the fact that this is not the first time Cristobal has made this coaching mistake. In 2018 with the Ducks playing Stanford at home, Oregon had a chance to kneel the ball and end the game. Instead, Cristobal decided to run it, and CJ Verdell fumbled. Stanford recovered, and went on to kick a game-tying field goal, ultimately winning the game in overtime.
If you’re a football fan that enjoys watching the game while keeping an eye on social media, then Saturday night was the night for you. Cristobal got rightfully roasted for his coaching decision. Here are some of the best reactions online:
