It’s game day, and the Yellow Jackets have another opportunity ahead of them when they go on the road to face Boston College. Georgia Tech will look to keep pace and stay atop the ACC conference. With a chaotic weekend last weekend that saw Virginia and Louisville fall, Georgia Tech controls its own destiny and has a greater chance to make the ACC title game. It starts with handling business on the road.  A good sign is that they are fully healthy and have all of their guys back and available to go in Boston. 

“Ready for the injury report? All right, out. Will Benton. That’s it. There is no questionable. There is no probable. Everyone is ready to rock and roll. That’s good news. Yeah, really good news. I just want to, again, I know I’ve said it before earlier in the season, but our training staff, the job they do in the training room, Brad Kimball, and everyone in there. Outstanding job of having these guys ready to play week in and week out without compromising the health and safety of the players,” said head coach Brent Key. “A lot of that goes back to the weight room, also, what AJ and his guys have been able to do. Erin (Wesolowski) in nutrition keeps these guys not only fed, but fed the right way, hydrated. The little soft tissue things. The work that Pat Boyle and Jordan Diaz, Sean (Boyle), and all those guys do in putting together the sports science part, the scientific part of it, the data into how we practice and prepare. Can’t say enough for that group of people and the job they do. Really, everybody for allowing us to be able to make such a heavy commitment to that over the last three years.” 

Let’s take a look at how to watch and listen to the game on Saturday. 

TV: ACC Network

• Play-by-Play: Wes Durham

• Analyst: Steve Addazio

• Sideline Reporter: Dana Boyle

• Mobile App: ESPN

• Online: WatchESPN.com

RADIO: Georgia Tech Sports Network

• Play-by-Play: Andy Demetra

• Analyst: Andrew Gardner

• Sideline Reporter: Chris Mooneyham

• In Atlanta: 680 AM/93.7 FM The Fan

• Across Georgia: Visit RamblinWreck.com for station affiliate list

• Satellite: SiriusXM 81

• Mobile Apps: GT Yellow Jackets, 680 The Fan, SiriusXM, TuneIn

• Online: RamblinWreck.com,

A key theme in preparation for the matchup against Boston College has been not only containing the edge but setting the edge. Not allowing the Eagles to get to the outside and get large chunks. Georgia Tech will be tasked with slowing down Dylan Lonergan and Turbo Richard in the running game. Their defensive ends will be tasked with the job of setting the edge and not letting Boston College have a big game on the ground. Georgia Tech has struggled this season in slowing down teams in the run. They are hoping to avoid that on Saturday. Head coach Brent Key talked about how to properly set the edge and what needs to happen in those instances. 

“Look, there are two ways. People talk about having contain.  Who’s got contain in the defense?  Well, if I’m standing here and Simmons over there, all right, I’ve contained that. I’m also containing it if I’m way over there. I’m also containing it from right there, but when you set the edge, you are eliminating space.  They’re an A-Gap run team. They’re a power, counter, duo, those are A-Gap plays.  But they’re A plays that can bounce.  Those plays,  the support gets sucked in on the edge, and you’re running duo, that play can, it hits A, they’re the mic, bounce, bounce, all of a you’re out there with nobody to bring them down,” said Key. 

“Setting that edge is gonna be really important. It’s gonna be like team running out at practice every day because that’s who we are as an offense.  As far as the, you know, the pull game, the gap schemes.  So it’s got to be with violence. It’s got to be with great pad level.  They gotta trust their preparation and trust what they see, not let the eye candy or different things, whether it be jet motion, whether it be a rock back, whatever it is, whether it be a read scheme, it doesn’t matter. They gotta trust their preparation, trust their eyes, and come out and set that thing with violence.”

If Georgia Tech can set the edge and play at a high level defensively, then they should be just fine and able to come out with a victory. 

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The ACC has released the Initial Availability Report for Boston College and Georgia Tech two days ahead of their matchup. 

At the moment, Georgia Tech has one player listed as out in long snapper Will Benton IV. 

Boston College, on the other hand, will be down multiple players. 

The players listed out are linebacker Daveon Crouch, wide receiver Jaedn Skeete, wide receiver Johnathan Montague Jr., linebacker Jaylen Blackwell, defensive back Syair Torrence, defensive back Marcelous Townsend, defensive back Cameron Martinez, wide receiver Will Graves III, defensive lineman Micah Amedee, wide receiver Bryce Dopson, tight end Danny Edgehille, defensive lineman Ty Clemons, defensive lineman Onye Nwosisi, defensive tackle Owen Stoudmire, and defensive lineman Chuck Nnaeto. 

The Eagles also have one player placed as questionable and seven as probable. 

The questionable player is defensive back Amari Jackson and the probable players include defensive back Omar Thornton, defensive back Max Tucker, defensive back TJ Green, defensive back Ashton McShane, defensive lineman E’Lla Boykin, offensive lineman Michael Crounse, and wide receiver Cedric Lott Jr.

Boston College head coach Bill O’Brien shared after practice on Thursday morning that Skeete was out for the season after suffering a shoulder injury in practice after the Notre Dame game, but is expecting to return to the program next season. 

“No, he won’t be back,” said O’Brien. “He hurt his shoulder in practice the week after the Notre Dame game. But he’ll be back. I would tell you that he won’t be back this year, but I would anticipate him being back next year.”

In October, O’Brien shared that Torrence, Skeete, and Crouch were out for the season. Crouch and Skeete did end up returning for BC’s 25-10 loss to Notre Dame on Nov. 1, but have not played since. 

​​”No Bam [Crouch], I don’t think Bam will be able to return,” said O’Brien on Oct. 21. “Skeete won’t be able to return. Amari might. Amari might, not this game. Syair no, out for the season. There’s others, but yeah. [Jude] Bowry will be back. [Eryx] Daugherty won’t play in this game. So yeah, but there’s probably others. That’s off the top of my head.”

The conference will release an updated Availability Report on Friday and a final one on Saturday prior to kickoff.

Georgia Tech Players Out:

LS #42 Will Benton IV

Boston College Players Out:

LB #1 Daveon Crouch

WR #1 Jaedn Skeete

WR #8 Johnathan Montague Jr.

LB #8 Jaylen Blackwell

DB #10 Syair Torrence

DB #19 Marcelous Townsend

DB #29 Cameron Martinez

WR #38 Will Graves III

DL #59 Micah Amedee

WR #80 Bryce Dopson

TE #86 Danny Edgehille

DL #90 Ty Clemons

DL #92 Onye Nwosisi

DT #93 Owen Stoudmire

DL #97 Chuck Nnaeto

Boston College Players Questionable:

DB #24 Amari Jackson

Boston College Players Probable:

DB #0 Omar Thornton

DB #3 Max Tucker

DB #30 TJ Green

DB #35 Ashton McShane

DL #56 E’Lla Boykin

OL #77 Michael Crounse

WR #81 Cedric Lott Jr.