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Year of the upset? Georgia Tech’s victory over Miami clinches remarkable feat for underdogs
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The year in college football has been all-time crazy, and we’ve still got 3 more Saturdays in November to go before we even hit December.
By saying crazy, we mean upsets, and upsets galore. And the upsets continued in Week 11 when unranked Georgia Tech took down No. 4 Miami, 28-23, at a raucous Bobby Dodd Stadium in Atlanta. In an all-too-familiar scene this fall, delirious Yellow Jackets fans rushed the field after it was all over and some fans were even spotted carrying one of the goalposts out of the stadium.
Georgia Tech knocked Miami from the ranks of the unbeaten in the ACC shocker, and the Yellow Jackets added to a statistic that shows just how crazy and unpredictable 2024 has been in college football.
The victory was already the 10th this season for an unranked team over a top-10 team, as noted by the AP’s Josh Dubow. That’s twice as many of those wins as we had all of last season and, again, we still have 3 more college football Saturdays in the month of November before December even arrives.
Georgia Tech's win over Miami is the 10th this season by an unranked team for a top 10 opponent. That's twice as many as there were all of last season
— Josh Dubow (@JoshDubowAP) November 9, 2024
The Georgia Tech upset happened in the noon ET time slot, and already in the 3:30 p.m. ET time slot there was another unranked team threatening to knock off a top-10 team, with Michigan giving No. 8 Indiana all it could handle in Bloomington. Indiana ended up holding on to a 20-15 win.
Perhaps this number will grow next weekend as top-10 teams like Oregon, Texas, Notre Dame, BYU and others are slated to take on unranked opposition in Week 12.
Cory Nightingale, a former sportswriter and sports editor at the Miami Herald and Palm Beach Post, is a South Florida-based freelance writer who covers Alabama for SaturdayDownSouth.com.
