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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Sed
December 5th, 2011
1:59 pm
I cant decide which is funnier. Don trying to combat my laughable facts above, Don trying to talk smack about his master’s from Athens or Don mocking a victory by the last good coach his program will EVER have? Lol!!? Classic!!
Sed
December 5th, 2011
2:03 pm
O’Liarey might be a liar, but he was able to do one thing few have ever been able to do at the joke by coke, and that is beat UGA!! Thats why we love Paul Johnson! Because his best days with Gailey’s talent are gone forever!!! Lol!!!!
gtfanfrom1951
December 5th, 2011
2:06 pm
Is Vad Lee leaving?
gtne80
December 5th, 2011
2:09 pm
Ok, so I missed the fact that the Gator Bowl no longer has a tie in and that the Champs Bowl is in Orlando (not Tampa). My fault.
That said, the central idea of the message was that it would be nice for the ACC to do some tweaking of the system to keep the same teams from going to the same bowls year after year (the BCS bowl tie-in, i.e., Orange nothwithstanding).
I’d drive to Charlotte or Orlando to see the Jackets play a bowl game and I think that many Tech fans in the Southeast would also. Not likely that I, or many others, will travel to Shreveport or El Paso.
But the Charlotte and Orlando bowls are set up to take teams from their area to spark local interest and Tech usually gets chucked from consideration immediately.
1 4 GT
December 5th, 2011
2:35 pm
I might have interest in going to El Paso if there is a charter flight put together with discounted tickets. If this does get put together, surely the info would be on this blog.. But I understand season ticket holders would have first choice. Just saying. GOOOOOOOOOOOO JACKETS THWG
Kyle
December 5th, 2011
3:47 pm
Weird we don’t have any tie ins with big 10 teams. I think the sec has 3.
Kyle
December 5th, 2011
3:52 pm
It’s not that the belk bowl is set to take a school from nc, it’s just that nc has 4 acc schools, 1/3 of the conf right now. The averages just say it will likely have a school from nc especially since it’s a low level bowl and thats where the unc nc state wake etc will fall.
DIT
December 5th, 2011
4:21 pm
This dawg would like to congratulate Tech, Congrats on the Bowl game. Make the south proud and send them Utes back to Utah crying. Good luck!
roughrider
December 5th, 2011
4:24 pm
Come on Tech and win this bowl game. It’s getting hard to pull for you when you lose the bowl game every year.
Randy from Macon
December 5th, 2011
5:49 pm
Tech beat Clemson 31-17 and at the time of that game Clemson was 8-0 and ranked #6. I think that all TRUE Tech fans need to be more positive and appreciate what our student athletes have to do in order to be admitted to Tech, play football while dealing with a demanding academic schedule, and actually try to graduate. Tech does things the right way, and will not recruit certain players that will be more trouble than they are worth (Crowell). We are two games better than we were at this time last year wirh the possibility of going 9-4. We are a young team and I look forward to next year. GO JACKETS anf THWG!
19
December 5th, 2011
6:13 pm
“Who’s Sed?”
“Sed’s dead baby, Sed’s dead.”
19
December 5th, 2011
6:17 pm
Sed, I would say you have a hard time deciding anything. It probably takes you 2 hours to get ready for work in the morning. Wait! You probably don’t have a job. Sorry about that and your miserable, pathetic life.
Confused Tech Fan
December 5th, 2011
7:50 pm
Again we loose to Georgia and we go to he Sun Bowl I wanted to go to play on that Blue Field .
Maybe next year we will make it there . I hope the Sun bowl is a good bowl , Man I am so confused
Randy from Macon - Stop Drinking the Kool-Ad
December 5th, 2011
9:28 pm
I have heard more than a handful of GT football players TRYING to speak on TV. Get over this academic excellence BS.
1991 Orange in which Tech whipped Nebraska?
December 5th, 2011
9:55 pm
SOme child wrote here that etch whiopped Nebraska in the 1991 Orange Bowl game. Please tell that young person that tech DID WHIP Nebraska AND DID WIN a share of the 1990 MNC BUT IN THE CITRU BOWL. Then, it was only a low level bowl, having morphed into the Citrus form the old Tangerine.
Sad. 1990 CITRUS BOWL IT WAS. Orange Bowl? Tech was there in 67 and 2009. Lost em both. Before 67 and 2009? Maybe in the 40s or 50s ands that is it.
Go Dogs.
Morning Reads for Monday, December 5th
December 6th, 2011
12:09 am
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Techbuzz
December 6th, 2011
12:13 am
Sun Bowl…..whoppty doo!!!!!!!! Tech was mediocre AT BEST this season and they have A LOT to fix for next season if they expect to win anything, and that includes games.
BlackandYellow
December 6th, 2011
4:14 am
James, I’m not sure how posting that the CEO of Wal-Mart is a Tech grad is an insult. That’s like…the largest retailer in the world? What do you call a Tech grad who reigns over thousands of U[sic]GA graduates? CEO of Wal-Mart. Get a life and go bark with your illiterate mutts, or molest a cow.
Piss 'on em
December 6th, 2011
4:33 am
I don’t understand how any news about Tech is immediately bashed by UGA fans. For a group of fans who keep claiming that there is no rivalry, you sure do like to talk trash.
Bob
December 6th, 2011
8:08 am
Gotta be some UGA recruits hoovering on the other side of the border, after all these new recruits could at least communicate with most of the UGA fans since their first language is not English along with most of the mutts.
P Simspon
December 11th, 2011
5:50 pm
Hey, Tech has its ups and downs but if it wasn’t for the Tech grads who would give the dawgs jobs after graduation?