CPJ's road openers

southendzoneBEE

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Evaluating CPJ's road openers: 4-6, but a lot of disappointing losses and easy wins.

2008- W vs. B.C. 19/16
-This, tied with Duke '13, is the best road opening victory in CPJ's career to date.

2009- L vs. Miami 17/33
-The first of a slew of disappointing losses in road openers, this was an outlier compared to the rest of the schedule, and ended up being our biggest loss of the season.

2010- L vs. Kansas St. 28/25
-This is one of the absolute biggest atrocities in all of Georgia Tech football's history.

2011- W vs. MTSU 49/21
-This was a fun game to watch and probably the best our offense has been over a 5 game span during CPJ's tenure. Also this was an awesome game to go to, MTSU has a beautiful campus.

2012- L vs. VT 17/20
-Going into the season we thought we had a good team and defense. We played well, but this OT game will always go down as a missed chance for a huge victory.

2013- W vs. Duke 38/14
-Solid victory over what ended up being one of Duke's best teams of all-time. Duke went on to win 8 straight after losing to Pitt 58/55 the next week, including beating ranked VT and Miami. Tied with '08 BC as CPJ's best road opening win.

2014- W vs. Tulane 38/21
-I don't think we played very good in this game, and it was generally boring.

2015- L vs. ND 22/30
-Couldn't get anything going this whole game really. Extremely disappointing game with a ton of injuries and we only won one game from here out.

2016- L vs. Pitt 34/37
-Defense couldn't get a stop to save their lives. Really let this one get away from us, and it's a shame because there were so many awesome plays this game (Juene's catch and JJ's KRTD).

2017- L vs. Miami 24/25
-Maybe even more disappointing than the '09 road opener vs. Miami.

So as you see, CPJ has not fared very well in these road openers. He has taken care of the weaker opponents, but none of the better opponents other than Duke '13. So the real question is, where does USF lie? I say better than BC '08 but not as good as Pitt '16.
 

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Pretty good look. I think the USF game will be something similar to the 2014 Tulane game: close until the 4th quarter, but our experience on offense will be too much for the USF defense, and our new defense will make enough plays to get off the field.

 

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Pretty good look. I think the USF game will be something similar to the 2014 Tulane game: close until the 4th quarter, but our experience on offense will be too much for the USF defense, and our new defense will make enough plays to get off the field.

Totally forgot about that blocked punt, man we did that a bunch during those seasons!
 

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I didn't include that or the CFA game last season.

The CFA game really wasn’t a road game, but the BC game most definitely was. The point is that you are traveling and out of your element. I think Ireland fits that definition quite well. And we got the job done.
 

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We did not play Kansas State in 2010. Before posting this, might want to check the facts.
 

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Evaluating CPJ's road openers: 4-6, but a lot of disappointing losses and easy wins.

2008- W vs. B.C. 19/16
-This, tied with Duke '13, is the best road opening victory in CPJ's career to date.

2009- L vs. Miami 17/33
-The first of a slew of disappointing losses in road openers, this was an outlier compared to the rest of the schedule, and ended up being our biggest loss of the season.

2010- L vs. Kansas St. 28/25
-This is one of the absolute biggest atrocities in all of Georgia Tech football's history.

2011- W vs. MTSU 49/21
-This was a fun game to watch and probably the best our offense has been over a 5 game span during CPJ's tenure. Also this was an awesome game to go to, MTSU has a beautiful campus.

2012- L vs. VT 17/20
-Going into the season we thought we had a good team and defense. We played well, but this OT game will always go down as a missed chance for a huge victory.

2013- W vs. Duke 38/14
-Solid victory over what ended up being one of Duke's best teams of all-time. Duke went on to win 8 straight after losing to Pitt 58/55 the next week, including beating ranked VT and Miami. Tied with '08 BC as CPJ's best road opening win.

2014- W vs. Tulane 38/21
-I don't think we played very good in this game, and it was generally boring.

2015- L vs. ND 22/30
-Couldn't get anything going this whole game really. Extremely disappointing game with a ton of injuries and we only won one game from here out.

2016- L vs. Pitt 34/37
-Defense couldn't get a stop to save their lives. Really let this one get away from us, and it's a shame because there were so many awesome plays this game (Juene's catch and JJ's KRTD).

2017- L vs. Miami 24/25
-Maybe even more disappointing than the '09 road opener vs. Miami.

So as you see, CPJ has not fared very well in these road openers. He has taken care of the weaker opponents, but none of the better opponents other than Duke '13. So the real question is, where does USF lie? I say better than BC '08 but not as good as Pitt '16.
Nice summary, thanks.

Bigger concern for me is that we haven't won a game as a (true) road favorite since NCST in 2014.

2015 @Duke (-7.5) L 38-21
2015 @UVA (-4) L 27-21
2015 @Miami (-2.5) L 38-21
2017 @UVA (-7.5) L 40-36
2017 @Duke (-7) L 43-20
 

RamblinWreck92

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2009 loss to um Biggest loss of season?

That sums up the state of our program and fan base quite well.

Losing to ugag the last regular season game was 100 times worse.
the 2009 mutt loss (to a pack of mutts that was so bad it fired its DC after it stifled CPJ) is the worst loss in the history of our program IMO. Definitely CPJ's worst loss.

I couldn't give 2 öööös about losing to miami that year. Don't even remember it.
 

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I would rate 7 of the 10 games listed above as "frustrating" or "extremely frustrating". Maybe there's something to us struggling in road openers.
 
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