WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. — Georgia Tech isn’t making things easy on itself late in football games, but with the regular season’s midpoint rapidly approaching, the 16th-ranked Yellow Jackets are still unbeaten.
They intercepted Wake Forest’s 2-point conversion attempt for the win in overtime to edge the Demon Deacons 30-29 on Saturday, capping a wild afternoon in which they came back from 17 points down in the third quarter to get to 5-0 overall and 2-0 in Atlantic Coast Conference competition.
The road rally came two weeks after the Yellow Jackets needed a fire-drill 55-yard field goal from Aidan Birr to beat preseason ACC favorite Clemson, ranked 12th at the time, on the final play in Atlanta. This time, Georgia Tech trailed 20-3 early in the third quarter, came back to force overtime, went ahead, then had to hold off Wake Forest’s bid for what would have been a huge victory under first-year coach Jake Dickert.
Instead, the Yellow Jackets are 5-0 for the first time since 2014.
“The one thing I’ll say about this team: For 60 minutes and then some, there still was not one person on that sideline who didn’t believe we were going to win the football game,” Georgia Tech fourth-year head coach Brent Key said.