Dublin, Ireland – Aidan Birr kicked a 44-yard field goal at the final horn, lifting Georgia Tech to a 24-21 victory over No. 10 Florida State Saturday evening in the Aer Lingus College Football Classic at Aviva Stadium. It was the 2024 season opener for both teams.

Tech tasted victory for the second time in as many trips to Aviva Stadium, having defeated Boston College on a late rally in 2016, 17-14, and also knocked off a top-10 team for the first time since upending the Seminoles, 22-16, on Oct. 24, 2015 in Atlanta.

The field goal culminated a 49-yard drive that took 12 plays and melted the final 6:33 off the game clock. Birr, a sophomore from Kennedale, Texas, had missed a 51-yarder on the Yellow Jackets’ first possession of the second half after hitting 17-of-19 last season as a red-shirt freshman (with his longest having been a 48-yarder).

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