Duke vs. Georgia Tech Preview: Key Matchup Insights

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00:00Another marquee matchup takes place in Durham, North Carolina.

00:04You see Duke right now a two-and-a-half point home favorite.

00:07It opened at one-and-a-half.

00:09We're seeing two-and-a-halves across multiple books against Haynes King and Georgia Tech.

00:14Haynes King and the Yellow Jackets started fast in their matchup against Virginia Tech.

00:19They jumped out to an 18-nothing lead.

00:21Looked like the offense could do everything against that Hokies defense.

00:26They're going to have to potentially bring their A game.

00:28I saw some, I want to say, weaknesses in their defense in the second half against Kyron

00:33Drones and Virginia Tech's offensive passing attack.

00:37But again, this game potentially could go right through the number in total-wise when you look

00:42at Darian Mensah and Haynes King's ability.

00:45Yeah, and again, there's a reason that Georgia Tech's the underdog.

00:50I mean, you've got a very explosive offense at Duke, and they've got to find a way to slow

00:56that offense down.

00:57Of course, Duke's got to shut the running game down of Georgia Tech, or at least slow

01:01it down.

01:03But mostly, Georgia Tech needs to do what they did this past week.

01:06They need to get out to an early start.

01:08You don't want to fall behind 10 or 14 points against Darian Mensah and Duke because they're

01:14too explosive on offense.

01:15Now, with the, I want to say, the rumblings and the rumors potentially of Manny Diaz being

01:22at least a candidate in the Penn State job or opening, does that affect anything for this

01:28team mindset-wise, staff-wise, heading into this weekend matchup?

01:33I think that Manny is probably smart enough and experienced enough not to let that come

01:40into play.

01:41You know, you can shut that down with one sentence.

01:44I'm focusing on this week.

01:46Now, you may have your agent working in hard on the backside.

01:49He can shut it down.

01:50And he's experienced.

01:51He's been fired.

01:52He's been through both sides of it.

01:55And you know, that's what I saw in Nebraska, Coach.

01:57I didn't think he answered way too many questions about why he doesn't want to go to Penn State.

02:03And so did, of course, Tony White at Florida State about why he didn't want to go to UCLA.

02:07So I think Manny is happy where he is.

02:10But he'll keep it quiet if they're talking to somebody behind the scenes.