Pittsburgh vs Georgia Tech Prediction, Picks & Odds for November 22 — College Football Week 13

Georgia Tech has been bad against the run recently, and our expert college football predictions expect Pitt running back Ja'Kyrian Turner to have a huge rushing game.

Douglas Farmer - Betting Analyst at Covers
Douglas Farmer • Betting Analyst
Nov 21, 2025 • 14:57 ET • 4 min read

NCAAF

Match starts: 26 hrs
GT
69 %
PITT
31 %
EXPERT PICK - PROP
Ja'Kyrian Turner o51.5  Rushing Yards (-114) Ja'Kyrian Turner o51.5 Rushing Yards (-114)
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Ja'Kyrian Turner of the Pittsburgh Panthers
Photo By - Imagn Images. Ja'Kyrian Turner of the Pittsburgh Panthers.

The Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets have allowed recent poor habits to threaten their clear path to the ACC championship game and, thus, the College Football Playoff. 

If they do not correct those mistakes immediately, the Pittsburgh Panthers will slip into a strong position for those same delights, though the Panthers would still need some help.

My Pittsburgh vs. Georgia Tech predictions recognize the stakes of this game and surprisingly doubt the Yellow Jackets’ physical resolve.

Read one for my college football picks for Saturday, November 22.

Pittsburgh vs Georgia Tech prediction

Pittsburgh vs Georgia Tech best bet: Ja'Kyrian Turner Over 51.5 rushing yards (-114)

Betting on a running back to clear a prop for only the third time in a season at -114 juice may seem foolish, but focus on how bad the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets have been against the run lately.

Syracuse, North Carolina State, and Boston College are all wretched offenses, yet they combined for 600 sack-adjusted rushing yards in the Yellow Jackets’ last three games. They averaged 6.1 yards per carry.

Brent Key has built his tenure in Atlanta on physical line play, but Georgia Tech’s defensive front has failed to close this season.

The Pittsburgh Panthers prefer to throw the ball, doing so at the second-highest relative rate in the country, behind only Hawaii.

But if ever there was a time to lean into the ground game, it is now. And that should come via running back Ja’Kyrian Turner as veteran Desmond Reid battles injuries.

Plus, Reid serves well as a receiving option.

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Georgia Tech's defensive struggles of late are just too immense to overlook, no matter how hard-nosed Haynes King will inevitably play against a Pat Narduzzi defense.

Frankly, Pittsburgh pretty clearly did not care about beating Notre Dame last week, and that blowout has added value to the Panthers' moneyline this week.

Pittsburgh vs Georgia Tech SGP

  • Ja'Kyrian Turner Over 51.5 rushing yards
  • Pittsburgh moneyline
  • Haynes King anytime touchdown

Our deep-ball SGP: Ground Attack!

Pittsburgh should lean into its ground game for once; it will be the first time all season.

Doing so will take away from Mason Heintschel’s stats while still helping the Panthers’ offense.

Pittsburgh vs Georgia Tech SGP

  • Ja'Kyrian Turner Over 51.5 rushing yards
  • Pittsburgh moneyline
  • Haynes King anytime touchdown
  • Mason Heintschel Under 292.5 passing yards
  • Pittsburgh team total Over 29.5

Pittsburgh vs Georgia Tech odds

  • Spread: Pittsburgh +2.5 | Georgia Tech -2.5
  • Moneyline: Pittsburgh +102 | Georgia Tech -120
  • Over/Under: Over 55.5 | Under 55.5

Pittsburgh vs Georgia Tech trend to know

As Georgia Tech’s defensive front has failed in the last three games, it is no coincidence that all three games cashed their Overs and by an average of 13.2 points. Find more college football betting trends for Pittsburgh vs Georgia Tech.

How to watch Pittsburgh vs Georgia Tech

Location Bobby Dodd Stadium, Atlanta, GA
Date Saturday, November 22, 2025
Kickoff 7:00 p.m. ET
TV ESPN

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Douglas Farmer
Betting Analyst

Douglas Farmer spends his days thinking about college football and his nights thinking about the NBA. His betting habits and coverage follow that same pattern. He covered Notre Dame football for various outlets from 2008 to 2024, most notably spending eight seasons as NBC Sports’ beat writer on the Irish. That was also when his gambling focus took off. Knowing there were veteran beat writers with three decades more experience than he had, Douglas found his niche by best recognizing Notre Dame’s standing in each year’s national landscape, a complex tapestry most easily understood and remembered via betting odds.

In 2021, that interest created a freelance opportunity with Covers, a role that eventually led to Douglas joining the company full-time in 2023. In the fall, Douglas will place five or six dozen bets each week, a disproportionate amount via BetRivers because the operator tends to have lines slightly different than the rest of the market. The same can be said of Circa Sports’ futures markets.

While Douglas is an avid NBA fan and covers the league throughout the year, the vast majority of his bets are on college football, because that is the biggest key to sports betting: Know what you do not know.

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