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Georgia Tech Atlantic Coast Conference Record: 11-2, 7-1 Coach: Paul Johnson Signature wins: Clemson ; Florida State Last meeting with Iowa: The Yellow Jackets and Hawkeyes have never met.

Nebraska had already stormed the field in celebration, having seemingly pulled off a huge upset in the Big 12 championship.

CLEMSON - The primary challenge facing Clemson in Saturday night's ACC Championship Game will be handling Georgia Tech's option offense, which as the name implies is a multiple-headed monster.

Georgia Tech coach Paul Johnson said he doesn't have a magic wand that he waves at halftime to suddenly bring his offense to life.

Any football guru will attest that big plays are more common through the air than on the ground.

Miami safety Randy Phillips is one of 19 brothers and sisters. Then there is his father and grandmother and a slew of aunts, uncles and cousins, plus a girlfriend and a charming son who turns 3 next month.

In a devastating start to his homestate return, former Aquinas football player Lee Malchow was injured making the tackle on the opening kickoff against Georgia Tech.

It was a huge night for Embry Peeples and the Georgia Tech offense. A Say what you will about Georgia Tech's performance Halloween night in Nashville.

Josh Nesbitt totaled four touchdowns -- two through the air and two on the ground -- and Jonathan Dwyer ran for 186 yards and three scores, as 11th-ranked Georgia Tech turned up the heat late to run away from Vanderbilt with a 56-31 road victory.

When a team has won five straight, launched itself into the BCS bowl picture and generally has left the impression it will skate through the "Nerders Row" portion of its schedule - Virginia, Vanderbilt, Wake Forest, Duke - it doesn't expect to have games like this.

It was a day of indiscernible plays, fluctuating weather and lots of mud-sliding. If you had difficulty following the path of the ball, you weren't alone.

With a large, boisterous crowd as his backdrop, Embry Peeples' emotions were running wild.

Here's your Georgia Tech at Florida State game blog, live from Doak Campbell Stadium.

Big strikes of the long-pass or run variety concerned Florida State entering Saturday's night game.

Because of lightning, play was suspended twice during the first quarter of Saturday's game between No.

Georgia Tech had never before played a football game in Mississippi. But the 2009 Yellow Jackets made the most of their first trip to this state, as well as a series of Bulldog turnovers, to take a 42-31 victory at Scott Field.

Georgia Tech coach Paul Johnson said his team is going to have to play better against Florida State this weekend than it did against Mississippi State last weekend.

This beheading of Georgia Tech's Embry Peeples -- by Miami's Randy Phillips and Darryl Sharpton -- fairly well sums up how the Jackets did Thursday night.

Posted by ESPN.com's Heather Dinich Georgia Tech coach Paul Johnson likened his players' efforts in Saturday's 37-17 win against Jacksonville State to "punching a clock." He liked the effort he saw on the first play when the Jackets knocked four players straight to the ground and paved the way for Jonathan Dwyer 's 74-yard touchdown run.

Georgia running back Caleb King , who was beaten out for the starting job by Richard Samuel , will likely miss the No.