Report: Tech to be granted bowl waiver
Georgia Tech will receive a bowl-eligibility waiver from the NCAA even if it loses the ACC Championship game to finish at 6-7, according to a cbssports.com report.
The story cited two unnamed sources. Tech, ACC and bowl officials could not confirm the report. Without directly commenting on the news, acting athletic director Paul Griffin reaffirmed his confidence in Tech’s situation, reiterating a comment made Monday.
“We’ll be playing in an ACC bowl game between the 27th of December and the first of January,” he said. “We’re going to make sure we do everything we can to make sure that it’s the Orange Bowl.”
With a new NCAA rule in place addressing bowl eligibility, concerns arose that Tech might not be bowl eligible if it lost to Florida State to drop below .500, a standard to receive a bowl invite, even though UCLA received a waiver last year in a similar situation. If the Yellow Jackets were not granted a waiver, it would have put them in a situation of needing to win the title game to go to the Orange Bowl or be shut out of the bowl picture altogether. Griffin and other Tech officials maintained their certainty that they would be playing in a bowl regardless. It appears they had reason.
Ken Sugiura, Georgia Tech blog
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154 comments Add your comment
GT Lee
November 30th, 2012
2:14 pm
11 of 12 I get what he was saying. No need to to take it too seriously.
Rick James
November 30th, 2012
2:43 pm
@G(winnett)T(ech)Lee
OK, Rick “Ronald McDonald” James. Maybe you and dawgfan can meet up after the game and cry together!
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No tears Lee..Its just a game and losing to Alabama would be nothing to be ashamed of.I may have cried if we lost to Tech though.I do wish tickets for the SEC game started at 4 bucks like they do for the ACC game..
Birmingham Jacket
November 30th, 2012
3:15 pm
TECH TO BIG 10 NEXT WEEK!
Count it!!!
Hallelujah!!!!
TECHIE
December 2nd, 2012
7:35 pm
@65 Dawg—————-agreed, I have never believed in every kid gets a trophy. It doesn’t happen that way in the real worldand al these sports and schools are supposed to be about preparing kids for the future. I love GT forever but I wish we had the balls to end the “bowl fever madness” when not deserved. I would respect that more and I’m sure that a lot others would too. If you continue to go to a bowl every year , deserved or not, then how do you fuel the hunger for a bowl. That hunger will breed excellance and that’s the truth. !!……THWGeorgy.!!!