We should have pounded the ball all game and snapped the ball with 5 seconds or less on every snap just like Georgia Tech did to us. The entire goal should have been to limit their offense but no we chose to go pedal to the metal instead.
Between that and kicking that FG late in the game tells us that Mario didn’t think the defense was a liability. The mentality was “just do what we’ve done all year and it’ll work itself out”
GT literally gave us the game plan for this game. Mitigating a great offense with a mid to poor defense. Especially up 21 early. It’s a wrap if we ran out the clock playing keep away. Whatever the game plan coming in was, it should’ve changed going up big early.
Clearly the defense lost the game but Dawson could’ve helped imo.