Georgia Tech knocks off No. 12 Clemson with 55-yard field goal as time expires

Georgia Tech handed No. 12 Clemson its second loss of the season with a 24-21 win in Atlanta.

Aidan Birr kicked a 55-yard field goal as time expired to snap Clemson’s nine-game win streak in the series between the two schools. Until Saturday, the Yellow Jackets’ last win over the Tigers came in 2014.

It was a career-long kick for Birr and it came after he had to rush onto the field with the rest of the field goal team. Georgia Tech used its last timeout ahead of its third-down play and after Haynes King ran to the middle of the field, the field goal unit ran on for Birr to drill the kick.

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The Yellow Jackets needed the field goal for the win after Clemson tied the game with 3:26 to go on a short TD run by RB Adam Randall. But Georgia Tech did a phenomenal job of running out the clock with a 10-play drive that went 38 yards to set up Birr’s field goal.

The win was no surprise either. The Yellow Jackets controlled most of the game. Clemson’s only lead came in the third quarter when Cade Klubnik hit Bryant Wesco Jr. for a 73-yard catch-and-run TD to give the Tigers a 14-13 advantage.

Georgia Tech went up 21-14 early in the fourth on a 1-yard run by QB Haynes King and got the ensuing 2-point conversion on a Philly Special to go up seven.