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Jackets not using eight-overtime loss to Bulldogs as motivation

University of Georgia photo by Conor Dillon / Georgia receiver London Humphreys races to the end zone with a 14-yard touchdown catch during the first overtime of last November's 44-42 win over Georgia Tech in eight overtimes.
University of Georgia photo by Conor Dillon / Georgia receiver London Humphreys races to the end zone with a 14-yard touchdown catch during the first overtime of last November's 44-42 win over Georgia Tech in eight overtimes.

By David Paschall 4 min read

No two college football games are exactly alike.

Georgia coach Kirby Smart and Georgia Tech counterpart Brent Key are thankful for that.

Last November, Smart’s Bulldogs outlasted Key’s Yellow Jackets 44-42 in eight overtimes inside Sanford Stadium. The marathon contest took four hours and 18 minutes to complete, and it contained 153 total plays.

“It was an intense game, and there was a lot of back and forth,” Georgia coach Kirby Smart said Monday afternoon in his weekly news conference. “I’ve never been a part of a game where there was a one-play outcome 14 times, and that makes things tough when you’re going back and forth.”

The No. 4 Bulldogs (10-1) and the No. 23 Yellow Jackets (9-2) will collide for the first time since on Friday afternoon at 3:30, with the in-state matchup televised by ABC and taking place for the first time inside Atlanta’s Mercedes-Benz Stadium. Key also held his weekly news conference Monday and said that last year’s outcome does not serve as motivation from his standpoint.