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Virginia Tech vs Georgia Tech: Final Score Predictions For Saturday’s Game
The matchup between Virginia Tech and Georgia Tech is arguably the most anticipated in-conference ACC game this week. Both of these teams have had incredibly high expectations at times.
Heading into week one, Georgia Tech was riding high after a walk-off win against No. 10 Florida State, a team that at the time seemed much better than what is known now. The Jackets were ranked afterwards, ending a 9-year drought tracing back to September 20, 2015.
The Hokies were also close to being ranked by the AP Poll this year, after receiving 77 votes in the intial poll, placing Virginia Tech at 27th in votes, just behind ACC foe Louisville, who was placed at 26th. Since that preseason poll, the Hokies season has been as up-and-down as it gets. The Hokies were upset by Vanderbilt and Rutgers in the first four weeks of the season, then played in a game that went to the referee’s discretion against No. 7 Miami, and dominated Stanford and Boston College, 31-7 and 42-21 respectively.
These seasons have been very different for the ‘Tech’ schools, but both teams have three losses heading into 2024’s TechMo Bowl, and Virginia Tech is listed as a 10.5-point favorite at DraftKings Sportsbook.
Here’s how we think Virginia Tech’s matchup against Georgia Tech will go.
Jackson Caudell (Publisher and Lead Editor), 6-1 record this year: Georgia Tech 27-24
Kahlil McCuller (Writer), 4-3 record this year: Virginia Tech 35-27
Zach Ozmon (Writer), 6-1 record this year: Virginia Tech 24-17
Connor Mardian (Writer), 4-3 record this year: Virginia Tech 35-17
RJ Schafer (Writer), 6-1 record this year: Virginia Tech 30-27
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Kirk Fordice-like Rick Jackson is sounding a whole lot like Daniel Kirkwood Fordice as he tries to be elected Georgia’s next governor.
Fordice came out of nowhere — actually, Vicksburg is somewhere but you know what I mean — in 1991 to become a two-term Mississippi governor.
He had money but nothing like Jackson, a billionaire businessman who’s also trying to emerge from nowhere politically to win Georgia’s top office.
“The establishment hated Trump, because they couldn’t control him. They are going to hate me,” Jackson says in an ad for Georgia’s Republican Primary on May 19, sounding like one of my favorite Mississippi governors — Fordice, because of his unpredictable personality (he could vilify or charm you, all in one sentence), not his politics. He died in 2004 of cancer.
I stood by a cafe entrance one morning, waiting to cover a Fordice speech. When he appeared, I stuck out my hand to shake his. “I’m not shaking your damn hand. You’re part of the problem down there (referring to the newspaper),” he told me, smiling and moving on.
Jackson rose to become one of economic giant-Georgia’s wealthiest people. He came from Atlanta’s rough midtown area, ending up in the foster care system. He left college due to poor financial circumstances.
The 71-year-old Jackson wormed his way into the dynamic city’s business scene in the late 1970s, mostly of the healthcare variety with mixed success before starting a workforce staffing and services company and later an antibiotics manufacturing plant. He turned those businesses into billion-dollar enterprises.
“It’s God’s money,” he said in rural Blakely, and he’s been charitable with it.
Jackson doesn’t try to hide his vast wealth. His family lives in a 48,000-square-foot mansion at Cumming, a place of nearly 100,000 people near Atlanta in Forsyth County, which once promoted its almost all-white population as a virtue.
Atlanta Journal-Constitution columnist Bill Torpy recently wrote that Jackson will spend a ton of his own money in seeking another mansion, the one occupied by Georgia’s governor. Torpy noted that present Lt. Gov. Burt Jones was once heavily favored to win the primary race, but he’s fallen behind Jackson’s bold money bid.
“The one-time front-runner in the Republican primary (Jones) has been relegated to No. 2, the result of a $100 million Mack truck running him over.
Rick Jackson, a billionaire healthcare tycoon, a man with a sly smile and reptilian gaze, is the guy driving that truck,” Torpy wrote.
The GOP field includes Secretary of State Brad Raffensberger, who spurned Trump’s demand to find 11,780 votes that would’ve allowed him to win Georgia in 2020.
Fordice was effective with some bombastic rhetoric during his run for governor, but I don’t remember it reaching the histrionic level employed by Jackson. In a major ad blitz, often referencing (Georgia college student) Laken Riley’s murderer, Jackson promises that unauthorized immigrants committing violent crimes will be “deported or departed … any questions?”
In another ad, Jackson growled, “Like President Trump, I don’t owe anybody anything, and like you, I’m sick of career politicians.”
Fordice spent only $1 million to get himself elected Mississippi’s governor. He somewhat sneaked up on the establishment, riding no escalator to the first floor of his Vicksburg concrete river mats-contracting office to declare his intentions. Who could ever forget his announcement seeking the governorship that ran on page 5 of the Clarion Ledger?
Recent polling ahead of Georgia’s May primaries for governor shows the eventual Republican nominee faces a strong Democrat in the November general election, most likely former Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms. That’ll require another whole pot of money.
— Mac Gordon, a native of McComb, is a retired Mississippi newspaperman. He can be reached at macmarygordon@gmail.com.
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