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Georgia Tech Football at Florida State
Saturday, Oct. 29 · Noon ET · Tallahassee, Fla. · Doak Campbell Stadium
LB Ayinde Eley (2 – above) is the primary NCAA Division I FBS participant since not less than 2000 with as many as 71 tackles, 9,5 tackles for loss, 3.5 sacks, three pressured fumbles and two fumble recoveries by his crew’s first seven video games of the season. Over the final 23 seasons, the next-fastest participant to attain that stat line that Eley has put collectively in seven video games this season was Virginia’s Micah Kiser, who did it in 9 video games in 2016.
Top Storylines
• Georgia Tech seems to full its first three-win month in 4 years on Saturday when it closes October at longtime Atlantic Coast Conference rival Florida State.
• Georgia Tech (3-4, 2-2 ACC), which has defeated No. 24 Pitt (26-21 – Oct. 1) and Duke (23-20 in OT – Oct. 8) this month, has not received three video games in a single month since Nov. 2018, when it beat North Carolina, Miami (Fla.) and Virginia.
• The Yellow Jackets are renewing their rivalry with Florida State for the twenty ninth time total however solely the seventh time because the ACC break up into divisions in 2005.
• Florida State owns a slight 14-13-1 edge within the all-time sequence, which dates again to 1903. Tech dominated the sequence from the onset, going 9-0-1 in 10 matchups between 1903 and 1975. After the Seminoles joined the ACC in 1992, they received the primary 12 convention video games between the 2 faculties however the Jackets have turned the tide because the ACC break up into divisions, profitable the final 4 regular-season contests in 2008, 2009, 2015 and 2020. FSU’s solely wins within the sequence since 2003 have come within the 2012 and 2014 ACC Championship Games.
• In their final assembly, Georgia Tech surprised Florida State in a 16-13 triumph at FSU’s Doak Campbell Stadium to open the Covid-19-delayed 2020 marketing campaign.
• Georgia Tech continues to boast one of many nation’s prime turnover margins at plus-10 (plus-1.43/recreation), which ranks second within the ACC and fourth nationally. The Yellow Jackets 16 takeaways rank second within the ACC and ninth nationally whereas its six turnovers misplaced are the second-fewest within the ACC and Eleventh-fewest within the nation.
• Last Thursday versus Virginia, Florida native So. DB LaMiles Brooks grew to become the primary NCAA Division I FBS participant this season with a fumble restoration, an interception return for a landing and not less than 9 tackles in a recreation this season.
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