"Finished the year strong?"
I would hardly call our finish strong. Yes, we won the bowl 52-10. It was against Tulsa. Not a very good team. The best team they beat was Hawaii, and that score was 27-16. As Georgia Tech, we are supposed to beat the Tulsa's of the world 52-10 or worse. The gameplan of simply run, run, run, run would not have worked against the majority of the bowl teams. Our starting QB consistently over or under-threw his receivers. Our defense was stout, but again, it was against TULSA. A team that went 1-10 a year ago.
As for the end of the regular season, we lost 3 of our last 4 games, including a pounding at the hands of DUKE and our 3rd consecutive loss to the rednecks from the east.
I'd hardly call that a strong finish. Here's to next year. Hopefully it'll be better than the last two.