(Information from GT Sports Information was used in this report)
Georgia Tech opened their season with a 37-17 victory over Jacksonville State, but Coach Paul Johnson knows it wasn't his team's best performance.
"It's much better to start 1-0 than 0-1 for sure,”Johnson, an Avery native, said. “It was a little more ragged than I would have liked.jpg)
. I don't know if we were very consistent really in any facet that I would have hoped to have been. I give credit to Jacksonville State; they played hard, hung in there. In hindsight, scoring on the first play of the game might not have been as good as you would think. The good thing is that we won the game, we have a lot to learn from this, but we will have to be 100 times better on Thursday night or we will get run out of our own stadium. Hopefully our guys will take the challenge, and will be ready to go."
The Ramblin Wreck rested starters in the second half, but not before Johnathon Dwyer gained 95 yards and had two touchdowns.Dwyer scored on a 74 run on the first play of the game from scrimmage, and remained on the sideline for the entire second half.
Despite gaining 335 yards on the ground, Johnson feels his Yellow Jackets has work to do.
"We have had a little problem with a killer instinct and our intensity levels and playing hard,” Johnson said. “That is something that we have to work on."
The Yellow Jackets host Clemson on Thursday evening for their ACC opener.
