ATLANTA (AP) - Reggie Ball has a way of bouncing back from his lowest moments.
He'll certainly need those powers of recovery on Saturday.
The Georgia Tech quarterback is coming off a miserable performance against Georgia, but he doesn't have long to fret about it. The No. 23 Yellow Jackets (9-3) are facing 16th-ranked Wake Forest in the Atlantic Coast Conference championship game, with the winner claiming a spot in the Orange Bowl.
``He'll come back strong,'' teammate Calvin Johnson predicted. ``We have a tough game coming up. We know Reggie is not going to let it bother him at all.''
Clearly, Ball has a lot of forgetting to do.
Last week, the senior looked like a raw freshman in the 48th start of his career, completing just 6-of-22 passes for 42 yards in a 15-12 loss to Georgia Tech's most bitter rival. As if that wasn't bad enough, he was intercepted twice and coughed up a fumble that was returned for Georgia's first touchdown.
``Reggie! Reggie! Reggie!'' the Georgia crowd chanted derisively.
But Ball has been through this sort of thing before during an up-and-down career. As a freshman, he was picked off three times in a blowout loss to lowly Duke - the Blue Devils' first ACC win in four years - but he rebounded the following week with three touchdown passes to beat North Carolina.
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