Clemson looks to Continue the Decade of Dominance Over Georgia Tech

It's been a one-sided matchup between the Clemson Tigers and the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets over the past decade, and it hasn't really been close.

In the last 10 matchups between these two programs, the Tigers own a 9-1 record and have an average margin of victory of 26.8, and including the one loss, the Tigers have outscored them by an average of 23.9 points per game.

Outside of one matchup in 2021 and obviously last year's defeat, it hasn't been close for the last 10 years, and the Tigers are looking to continue that on Saturday.

These two teams frankly are having equally weird seasons that are hard to explain. For Georgia Tech, they lost a couple of players after last year, and the fallout has been significant and surprising. 

The Yellow Jackets enter Saturday's game with a 2-7 record and a 1-5 record in conference. The kicker is that one win is over one of the better teams in the ACC, the Duke Blue Devils, who would be in College Football Playoff contention had it not been for that loss to the Yellow Jackets.

On the Clemson side, it has been more of the same that we have been experiencing for the last four years with this program. This is a very average team that has been stagnant as long as the NIL era has become more prevalent in the world of college sports. 

As they have been doing, they don't have the skill power to reach up in class, they are prone to being beaten by even competition, and against lesser foes, they really just squeak by. 

For this week, the hope is that Dabo Swinney and his staff are able to dip into their bag of tricks, however small that bag may be, and not be at risk of an upset. Historically, this is a game that the Tigers win and win easily, but you never really know what you are going to get with this team.

Removing the Charlestown Southern game in the middle of October, this Clemson team has only scored more than 30 points one time this year, and that was against Florida State a couple of weeks ago, which led to the end of the Mike Norvell era. 

They do not have to do that this weekend to beat the Yellow Jackets, but it would be a sight for sore eyes for sure. Clemson just has to win this football game to continue on their path to what is likely the last winnable game on their schedule.

However, is a nice comfortable win too much to ask for? This one should be all Tigers.