Colorado Steals Georgia Tech 14-13 with 37 Seconds Left
Colorado trailed 13-7 until 37 seconds were left, and Julian Lewis's 20-yard touchdown pass to Charlie Williams flipped it to 14-13. That was the game. Colorado (1-0) took the road win, and Georgia Tech (0-1) was left with a loss it will be thinking about for a while.
This was a low-scoring one from the start. Micah Welch ran in from five yards in the second quarter for a 7-0 Buffs lead, and then the game turned on the very next play, the kickoff. Rahkeem Smith took it back 100 yards for a Georgia Tech touchdown 14 seconds later, which tied it at 7-7. Aidan Birr kicked a 22-yard field goal late in the second to make it 10-7, and the score sat there through the third. Birr added a 29-yarder with 1:40 left in the fourth for 13-7.
In the Yellow Jackets' column, that is it: a kickoff return touchdown and two field goals, with no touchdown from the offense. Take away Smith's return and Colorado wins 14-6, and nobody argues about it. Georgia Tech had 293 total yards to Colorado's 315, with 237 of them through the air, and lost a fumble.
Colorado ran 47 times for 191 yards and threw for just 124, with Lewis finishing 14 of 27 and carrying four times for minus-12 yards. The Buffs also sacked Georgia Tech's quarterback three times. They did not turn it over.
For fantasy, it was a quiet game. Jordan Allen of Georgia Tech was the top scorer with 19.3 Promethium points on eight catches for 113 yards, even with a lost fumble. Welch had 11.8 and Williams had 10.8 on the one catch that mattered.