Tech to Sun Bowl
Georgia Tech has accepted an invitation to play in the Sun Bowl. The Yellow Jackets will play Utah Dec. 31 in El Paso, Texas. It will be the Jackets’ 15th consecutive bowl appearance.
“Our team is excited for the opportunity to play in the Hyundai Sun Bowl,” Tech coach Paul Johnson said in a statement. “Our players worked hard this season and we’re excited to have another game to play.
Tech played Utah in the 2005 Emerald Bowl, losing 38-10 and starting the Jackets’ six-game bowl losing streak.
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Chad
December 5th, 2011
10:03 am
This will be just like the Emerald Bowl of 2005. Utah will dominate again. GT has a good rushing attack. NEWS FLASH!!! Utah has one of the best rush defenses in the nation. Utah 27 GT 10.
Supersize that order, mutt
December 5th, 2011
10:04 am
Chad, it’s not what kind of defense our opponents have; it’s what kind of defense we don’t have.
Supersize that order, mutt
December 5th, 2011
10:06 am
Ken, will you be going to El Paso?
juvenal
December 5th, 2011
10:16 am
going out of the country for the holidays, if it’s on espn should still be able to catch it….
Supersize that order, mutt
December 5th, 2011
10:22 am
juvenal, it will be on CBS
blazer
December 5th, 2011
10:33 am
42-10 wasn’t that close and shouldn’t have been there !
DawginLex
December 5th, 2011
10:34 am
supersize
What’s happening? Saturday was a long day for us Dawgs.
did you watch UNC/UK?
My kid got to go for 5 bucks!!
I told her we could have sold that ticket and paid her tuition for the semester!
Candler
December 5th, 2011
10:35 am
@steverino
I doubt your comment even made sense to yourself. “6 national titles in a row???” Looks like Ruben Houston has been selling you some of his better stuff.
Good luck with the cheating. Looking forward to watching your cheats get humiliated as usual in the post season.
Candler
December 5th, 2011
10:43 am
@UGA = Yawn
Wow. A reasonable Tech fan that has a clue? Fortunately enough the overwhelming majority of Tech fans are delusional and still think Johnson is the answer. I am looking forward to him detroying the little bit that is left of the Tech program for years to come.
juvenal
December 5th, 2011
10:46 am
thanks, Super…..rats…….probably will try firstrowsports on the web……..Lex, a rough one, missed the 1st half(in the woods), did not expect that…..looks like your crowd hung in pretty good….
headley lamar
December 5th, 2011
10:47 am
What’s happening? Saturday was a long day for us Dawgs.
Sure was. We aren’t as good as Alabama or LSU.
But we aren’t as far away as some might think.
Either way you have to feel things are headed in the right direction in Athens.
The defense has improved dramatically and Murray with this young core of receivers is going to be dangerous for a long time.
As far as the second half goes. Well I guess that’s how Tech feels when they play us.
AlanW
December 5th, 2011
10:47 am
Good Luck in El Paso, Jackets!
You’re due to break that streak, and bring a bowl trophy home to Georgia. 8-4 is a good season, and your win against Clemson was certainly a signature moment for Coach Johnson’s reign at Tech. Bounce back from your last game, and have a great one in the Sun Bowl.
We’ll be cheering for you in December 31st! Make the State of Gerogia Proud.
Best regards,
AlanW ~ UGA Alumnus
Go Dawgs!
1 4 G
December 5th, 2011
10:49 am
Now guys, don’t be so hard on Georgie. To paraphrase Ann Richards–”Georgie cayn’t he’p it, he was born with a dog bone in his mouff.”
gtne80
December 5th, 2011
11:17 am
I’d love to see the ACC do some more tweaking on the rules for the aligned bowls and their selection criteria. We seem doomed to end up getting shipped out west most years. I wouldn’t mind seeing El Paso, but for a $500/person airfare (plus lodging, meals, tickets and incidentals), there are a number of destinations that are higher on my “bucket list” that I’d rather see.
I’d rather never see the Jackets in the Chik-fil-A bowl again. They never seem to play inspired ball there, probably because it’s a letdown not to get to travel at all.
The bowl in Charlotte will always pick one of the Carolina teams (NCState, UNC, Wake, Duke). The game in Tampa will likewise opt for either Miami or FSU if available.
That means that if Tech doesn’t make it to the ACCCG, which would put us in either the Orange or Gator, we’re faced with Shreveport, El Paso, Nashville or DC. Nashville is driveable and not a bad city for a long weekend vacation over the holidays. Not a very prestigious bowl or one with a lot of exposure, but features a matchup with SEC (which has regional interests for many fans).
I hope we do well. I’m tired of the trend of getting waxed in meaningless bowl games in the name of extra weeks of practice and some small net payout for the athletic dept.
dood
December 5th, 2011
11:23 am
So Vad is leaving. Nice job coach.
Bobby Dodds Ghost
December 5th, 2011
11:24 am
GTNE80, The Gator bowl no longer has an affiliation with the ACC.
Don
December 5th, 2011
11:47 am
Gtne the champs bowl is in Orlando.
Irony
December 5th, 2011
11:47 am
The irony of Georgia fans talking crap about ATL is that more UGA fans live in ATL than do Tech fans. And second, they are talking about their state capital as well. Embarassing our own state.
THE COLLEGE FOOTBALL SPORTS MARKET HAS SPOKEN
December 5th, 2011
11:52 am
GT will be paid what from the proceeds? $2.6 Million?
UGA will be paid what from their bowl’s proceeds? $5.2 Million?
Whatever it is ……………………… that differential is what the bowl market deems these two team’s worthiness is, come bowl time. ONE has far more value than the other and one is a member of THE FOOTBALL conference of America, where National Champions come from every year. BOTH are sporting at least 3 losses.
What say you Tech fans? Gonna buy those seats on SW or Delta or Continental?
RamblingReck
December 5th, 2011
11:53 am
The idiots on both sides have ruined this blog for me. Like Old Crusty Dawg, I always rooted for the other side when we weren’t playing each other.
Walmart Blue Light Special
December 5th, 2011
11:54 am
All you Retarded UGA Trolls we are announcing a Blue Light Special tonight at 6pm. This is basically the same time that we announced the special on Saturday night during the SEC Championship game. We appreciate your patronage and thank you for leaving the game so early Saturday night to attend our Blue Light Special. Stinger said he saw you flooding the gates to get out of there. LMFAO
Watch the Oange Bowl within two more years
December 5th, 2011
11:58 am
The Orange Bowl is burned every year by the hapless, pathetic, sad ACC, like when GT was stomped by slow, German American Iowa farm boys in 2009 and this year will be no different with a 6-5 Clemson ACC C team.
The Orange Bowl will soon dump the contract with the SEC, like the Gator Bowl did, as they would have preferred having a 8-3 Arkansas or a UGA vs Michigan or Arky vs UGA, or Michigan than Clemson and West VA. These two teams will bring some crazy fans, unlike GT did in their humiliating loss to Iowa. GT also lost their last major bowl trip in 67 to Florida in the Orange.
Don
December 5th, 2011
12:04 pm
Watch…are you drunk or just stupid?
Sven Ottke
December 5th, 2011
12:29 pm
He’s stupid.
Technically Correct
December 5th, 2011
12:31 pm
Has anyone put together a package deal with a chartered flight from Atlanta?
RambleOn84
December 5th, 2011
12:38 pm
Only in Athens is 6+1=6
Beneath Reproach
December 5th, 2011
12:41 pm
Why don’t we hold an election every year in december to place the correct teams in the NC game. We could run it just like the national elections. We could have head coaches buying tv time to prove that they deserved to be elected. The coaches could hold a couple of debates to convince those sitting on the fence. Imagine the turnout, every four years this election could run concurrently with the Presidential election. This would improve turnout in both elections. If we did this then we would get the democratic process involved so that we could choose the proper opponents.
Bowls Used to be Fun
December 5th, 2011
12:42 pm
Congrats to Tech and while I think El Paso ranks below even Shreveport on the excitement scale, if the Sun Bowl committee is well-organized your players and fans can still have a great time. Likewise, I hope UGA enjoys its bowl game. The BCS and Playoff-Pushing Media have ruined the bowl season, which used to be more like a Holiday Exhibition, a veritable Football Festival. Now it is all about two or three teams at the top, and then almost three dozen relatively ignored, second-class bowls.
killerj
December 5th, 2011
12:43 pm
Alright BornandRaised! Where the hell is the best steak in town with some to-kill you juice! Love it, finally a different bowl game to go to! excited to make the trip! Yeeeee Haaaaaa! Hello see- you- rita,s,ewwwww weeeeee good buddy!,by the way Pups,”4 to 1″ baby where it counts losers! THWG! ROLL WRECK!
Sed
December 5th, 2011
12:47 pm
Haha!!!!
Bowls Used to be Fun
December 5th, 2011
12:47 pm
At this point, the NCAA should just eliminate the bowls altogether. If a bowl is no longer a reward for fans and players, then it just becomes a vehicle for corruption and a four-hour infomercial on the mothership network. The Beauty Contest System (BCS) is a hybrid abomination that pleases neither the media and Vegas-backed playoff supporters nor the college fans and players who just want to celebrate another season in an interesting setting.
Sed
December 5th, 2011
12:50 pm
The “mighty” Big East has 3 times the number if BCS wins as the crappy ACC. Even the MountainWest has more!!!! Lol!!! You people are hopeless.
You should focus more on the safety of your own students than your lost cause football program, cheats.
Bowls Used to be Fun
December 5th, 2011
12:50 pm
Watch the Orange: what about the 1991 Orange Bowl when Tech whipped Nebraska and won the NC
Sed is Zed is Brain-Dead
December 5th, 2011
12:51 pm
Sed, you really are a ‘zed’
Sed
December 5th, 2011
12:56 pm
Tech didnt play in the Orange Bowl in 1991, moron.
Sed
December 5th, 2011
12:59 pm
Tech played in the Citrus against the real National Champs leftovers. And when Colorado destroyed them they beat them with their starting QB, unlike the cheats who faced the backup.
NEXT!!!!
killerj
December 5th, 2011
12:59 pm
Yo! “Bowls used to be fun”,that was the citrus bowl back then.
Sed
December 5th, 2011
1:02 pm
The real National Champions did play in the Orange in 1991, so you were half right
killerj
December 5th, 2011
1:02 pm
And SED,five downs not withstanding! Worst call in football I,ve ever seen,that game was protested by Notredame fool!…NEXT!!
TampaDawg
December 5th, 2011
1:05 pm
Whats up Super and juvenal?
I have proven once again that win or lose, still love my Dawgs, life will go on and I certainly place other things in a much higher priority than ANY college football team/game (I didn’t even get to watch the game while dealing with MUCH bigger priorities).
That being said, sure wish the Dawgs would have played the second half as well as they did the first.
Sun Bowl prediction … wait for it … waaaait for it …..
GT 38, Utah 27
Sed
December 5th, 2011
1:05 pm
So the Big Easy has 3 times the number of BCS wins as the ACC. The MWC has 1 more and the WAC has just as many. Lol! You cannot write better comedy than that!!!! And the ACC always usually has the easier competition to boot!! Lol!!
Sed
December 5th, 2011
1:08 pm
Playing a shameless schedule, facing a team the real champs already owned and against their backup qb?!? Lol!!! Try again!!
NEXT!!!!
Sed
December 5th, 2011
1:11 pm
The Helen of Troy Bowl:
Utah – 48
Cheating thugs -17
Don
December 5th, 2011
1:38 pm
The big easy is also 2-0 against the dogs this century. Bwahahaa Now that is comedy.
Sed
December 5th, 2011
1:46 pm
Actually liar, UGA has only faced one Big East team this century, the same team that beat your cheats the following year I believe
Sed
December 5th, 2011
1:49 pm
Now whats REALLY funny is Tech’s 0-2 record against the mighty WAC this”century” lol!!!
Sed
December 5th, 2011
1:50 pm
Or their 0-1 record against the MountainWest!!! Lol!!!
Don
December 5th, 2011
1:51 pm
Wow sed you really are a dumbass.
Boston College 2001 LOSS
West Va 2005 LOSS
Both big easy members at the time. Learn the facts idiot!
Don
December 5th, 2011
1:53 pm
Uga 0-1 against Conf Usa in bowl games. Bwahaha And they couldn’t even score a td against them! Now that is pathetic, like sed!
AquariusGT
December 5th, 2011
1:58 pm
If Paul Johnson loses this game then D Rad needs to start looking