Georgia Tech beat No. 17 Miami 23-20 Saturday night because of a fantastic last-second landing cross — that the Yellow Jackets mustn’t also have been in a position to take a look at. With 10 seconds left at the clock, Yellow Jackets quarterback Haynes King took a snap from the shotgun at Miami’s 44-yard line. His preliminary reads were not open, so he scrambled to his proper against his proper. At the similar time, extensive receiver Christian Leary streaked towards the tip zone. Leary raced previous Miami’s deep defensive backs and King let the ball fly.
Leary stuck it in-stride across the 10-yard line with no defender close to him. He slid into the tip zone to present Georgia Tech its decisive 23-20 lead. Instead of risking a blocked more level, the Yellow Jackets kneeled the ball at the extra-point try. Miami were given the ball again with two seconds, however Georgia Tech’s protection held.
Perhaps the much more implausible than the landing is how Georgia Tech were given able to win the sport. Miami had the ball and a 20-17 lead, with lower than a minute at the clock. Georgia Tech did not have any timeouts left.
Instead of kneeling the ball out, Miami trainer Mario Cristobal bafflingly drew up a run play on third-and-10 from Georgia Tech’s 30-yard line. Running again Don Chaney Jr. fumbled the ball and Georgia Tech recovered, a play that held up after professional evaluation.
“At the end of the game, chance to put it away and should have just told them to take a timeout right there,”
Cristobal mentioned after the sport. “Recalibrate and just take a knee. So, we gave them a chance and they took advantage of it and scored.”
Of observe, practically the exact same thing happened to Cristobal when he used to be the trainer at Oregon against the tip of a 2018 additional time loss to Stanford.
King finished a 30-yard cross to Malik Rutherford at the resulting power to arrange what was the game-winning landing cross.