Georgia Tech at Pitt on Oct. 31 will kick off at 7:30 p.m. Televised on ESPN2.

Entire row to myself on this flight. Things are looking up

Brent Key: “This team needs to understand, anybody can beat anybody on Saturdays. We’ve shown that we can play with anybody on Saturdays, and we can get in a hole and then turn it around and come out of it and play. But it’s the consistency that goes through that.”

Brent Key: "I'm not sitting here trying to blow smoke by any means, but there was improvement made in places. That's what you have to show the guys. Guys have to understand, we improved here, here and here and we didn't here. Well, let's find out why we didn't."

BLACKSBURG, Va. — Georgia Tech’s turnaround lasted just a week. The Yellow Jackets fell behind Virginia Tech by three touchdowns in the first half Saturday and lost 34-24, putting a dent in the progress from last week’s upset of previously undefeated Duke. ajc.com/sports/2026/10/georg…

Georgia Tech cuts the lead to 7 with a 33-yard TD pass by Alberto Mendoza to Dalen Penson. Jackets have scored 14 points in five offensive plays in under three minutes in the third quarter.

Georgia Tech goes completion, completion, touchdown run to open the second half. Trelain Maddox ran it 42 yards for the score. Needed just 48 seconds to cut the lead to score touchdowns. Virginia Tech 24, Yellow Jackets 10.

Halftime: Virginia Tech 24, Georgia Tech 3. Stats speak for themselves. Grunkemeyer had 215 yards passing, completed 10 of 12. Que’Sean Brown 180 yards receiving. Jeffrey Overton averaging almost 7 yards a carry. Jackets' offense had success with RPOs and quick passes but scored just three points after entering the red zone twice.

Virginia Tech goes up 21-3 on a 5-yard TD pass by Grunkemeyer to Ja'Ricous Hairston on fourth down. Que'Sean Brown had a 66-yard reception to set up the score. He already has 169 yards on four catches.

Georgia Tech gets on the board with a 31-yard FG by Aidan Birr. Score set up by a mishandled punt. Drive started in the red zone, but Tech gained only six yards on three plays and settled for three points. Virginia Tech leads 14-3.

Virginia Tech goes up 14-0 with a 20-yard run by Grunkemeyer. Jeffrey Overton also had a long run on the drive. Bad angles, missed tackles by the Jackets.

oof, Trelain Maddox was headed in for a touchdown but the ball got punched out before he reached the end zone. Touchback, Virginia Tech takes over. Jackets put together a great drive and came away with nothing.

Virginia Tech scores in three plays, goes up 7-0. Ethan Grunkemeyer completed two passes for 73 yards, including a 60-yarder to Que'Sean Brown on the touchdown.

Justice Haynes and Josh Petty each listed as a game-time decision at Virginia Tech on the final injury report.

Long list of Georgia Tech players again this week on the initial injury report ahead of the trip to Virginia Tech. Tech's leading rusher, Justice Haynes, is doubtful.

That will likely be on the table for Kyle. Brent Key: “We’ve had some conversations. Y'all know what I want him to do, but he will be able to do whatever he wants to do and whatever fulfills him for the rest of his life.”

Brent Key told his Georgia Tech players in a meeting during spring practice two years ago that nobody on the team was a leader. Nobody was a captain. He went off on the group and returned to his office. Minutes later, Kyle Efford walked in and slammed his hand on Key’s desk. “Why am I not a leader?” the linebacker asked. “Why am I not a captain?” Key laughs now when he tells the story. “Kyle, it was a little bit of a show there,” Key told him. “You are, man.” Efford had to make sure. “This means more than anything in the world to me,” he told Key. ajc.com/sports/2026/10/georg…

After Kyle Efford’s shoulder injury worsened, doctors told him last month he likely would never play again. With his team 1-3 and facing undefeated, ranked Duke, Efford decided he had to play at least one more game. He had accepted his career had to end. But he would go out on his terms. “This man felt as if he could single-handedly will us out of a rut,” Brent Key said. “And he did. He did. There’s 11 guys on defense and 21 arms out there; he left it all on the field.” ajc.com/sports/2026/10/georg…

Georgia Tech team captain Kyle Efford announces his retirement from football. “I never played this game to see how long I could last. I played it to see how much I could give. And I gave it everything I had in me, man”