Clemson flips to Tech’s even-year schedule
Georgia Tech will play a second consecutive road game at Clemson this fall, a move that will address its scheduling issue that has had Clemson, Georgia and Virginia Tech on the same home-away rotation since 2006.
Tech will also play home games against both ACC newcomers, Pittsburgh and Syracuse. Pitt will be in the Coastal Division with Tech. Syracuse will be in the Atlantic Division and is on the schedule as the one rotating Atlantic opponent.
Tech’s other home games will be against North Carolina, Virginia Tech, Georgia, Elon and Alabama A&M. The other road opponents will be Duke, Miami, Virginia and BYU. Tech will have seven home games and five road games.
Tech officials have sought to fix the scheduling quirk that has placed the Yellow Jackets’ three biggest rivals – the Bulldogs, Hokies and Tigers – on the same pattern of coming to Bobby Dodd Stadium in odd years and hosting Tech in even years. It has caused unbalanced season-ticket sales, which has made budgeting for the athletic department uneven.
Syracuse’s visit will be its first ever to Bobby Dodd.
Home: North Carolina, Pittsburgh, Syracuse, Virginia Tech, Georgia, Elon, Alabama A&M
Away: Clemson, Duke, Miami, Virginia, BYU
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TexGT
January 11th, 2013
4:24 pm
Michigan isn’t a perennial powerhouse? Are you kidding me? Yes, they had some down years in the 2000s at the end of Lloyd Carr and Rich Rod, but come on, all big time schools have had those years.
GTBob
January 11th, 2013
4:27 pm
TexGT, thats what the academic schools do. They have runs. They never have sustainable success. Do you really expect Stanford, and Vanderbilt to be powerhouse programs in 10 years? No. People like to forget that Stanford was one of the worst teams in the FBS just a few years ago. Harbaugh and Luck helped them rebound but there is no evidence at all that they can keep it going much longer. Their 2013 recruiting class is currently below GT’s. There are only a couple of exceptions like USC, Michigan, and ND who all have overwhelming football tradition to fall back on.
GTBob
January 11th, 2013
4:28 pm
Michigan isn’t a perennial powerhouse? Are you kidding me?
What makes them a powerhouse lately? I would agree that their football program is still one of the best programs out there but they haven’t really done anything recently.
GssiT
January 11th, 2013
4:38 pm
Elon & Ala A&M will force us to give up our 4 season tix. With half our graduates living outside the state, it’s going to take a very attractive schedule to bring them back. What happened to the old TECH (Auburn-Miss St-Vandy-Tenn)???? We all know who the kids want to play! To quote the departed AD, “It is all about money!” Then we better hire a new AD with a big enough pair to upgrade our schedule. Who’s afraid of the big, bad wolf? Not we fans! Go, Jackets!
GTBob
January 11th, 2013
4:40 pm
Just to expand on my point, here is a recap of Michigan in the past 10 years:
Averaged 8 wins a year.
Went 2-8 against their rival.
Went 2-6 in bowl games.
Won 2 conference titles in 10 years.
Lost to an FCS school.
Would you say that is a powerhouse resume?
wrecked
January 11th, 2013
4:48 pm
Tech has 2 recruiting disadvantages, 1) limited curriculum 2) Paul Johnson .
THWT!
January 11th, 2013
4:49 pm
This switch sucks! Now I have a reason to dump my season tickets!
TexGT
January 11th, 2013
4:50 pm
Michigan? Yes, denying Michigan is a CFB powerhouse and one of the premeir jobs is pure ignorance You could make similar lean-year arguments for Miami, Penn State, Florida State, Bama post-Stallings until Saban in 2008 (they were bad), Tennessee now, Nebraska post-Osbourne, Oklahoma in the 90’s, USC in the 90s, UGA pre-Richt, ), and on….
Regarding Michigan, you statistics are severely driven down by the pathetic 3 year Rich Rod stent and LLoyd Carr’s final year. Besides, that, Michigan is a model of consistency, and consistently winning 9 games or more (pre-12 game schedule).
TexGT
January 11th, 2013
4:52 pm
Gssit – agreed. Given our weak ACC sked every year, we need to get bold with our OOC sked, a la LSU. We need to dump these DIV II teams, and get back to scheduling against bigger brand name schools, particularly old rivals like Auburn and ND.
It is foolish to argue with...
January 11th, 2013
4:54 pm
…GTBob – he is always right, even if by the smallest of percentage points – plus, he is a legend in his own mind…
GTBob
January 11th, 2013
4:55 pm
Regarding Michigan, you statistics are severely driven down by the pathetic 3 year Rich Rod stent and LLoyd Carr’s final year.
2005 wasn’t so hot either. So over a 10 year span you think we should throw out 5 years and not count them? That’s convenient. Do you wan’t to drop this year also since they weren’t very good?
D'OH!
January 11th, 2013
4:56 pm
Agnes Scott College – Asked if tek would be there Homecoming opponent………. Tek said that they did not have room for another tough OOC game and did not want to risk being bowl eligible.
GTBob
January 11th, 2013
4:59 pm
The only reason we are playing two FCS teams this year is because the series with Alabama was postponed. We were supposed to play at Alabama.
5150 UOAD
January 11th, 2013
5:04 pm
WOW……………….WOW……………………WOW………………….WOW…………………WnE is back! He was no-show after the TECH bowl win.
WnE did you nad THOMAS BROWN enjoy your wedding and reception at “Swinging Richards” and the After party at “Bulldogs” in Midtown? Which of you wore the Do Do Brown Wedding dress?
TexGT
January 11th, 2013
5:05 pm
If you think MIchigan is not a powerhouse program, you are nuts. Now I get why the UGA fans really don’t like you – you will fight an issue not matter what, without any ability to view something objectively. We would kill to be like Michigan.
If you really need your pathetic crutch of the academic excuse for why we suck, fine stick with it, but you will only continue to look ignorant to everyone else.
5150 UOAD
January 11th, 2013
5:06 pm
GTBOB you can’t make HEATERS understand that BAMA wanted to move the game and TECH accepted the offer.
Paul in NH
January 11th, 2013
5:17 pm
“Tech got rid of O’Leary (who got the players) because he mis-represented something on his resume”
Tech never got rid of O’Leary. He quit when he was offered the HC position at Notre Dame. When ND started looking closely at his resume they saw falsehoods of both an academic nature (he didn’t have the Masters he claimed) and athletic nature (despite claiming to be a 3 year letterman, he never played a down at UNH).
GTBob
January 11th, 2013
5:17 pm
TexGT, you seem to be getting frustrated so I will quit messing with you. However, you are the first supposed Tech fan I have ever seen though that will argue tooth and nail that we have no disadvantages at all because of academics. I have given you links showing Stanford and ND had the same issues and you ignored them. To you academics play no role at all in recruiting in college football. Go ahead and live with that mindset. Keep sitting around wondering why GT can’t get much better no matter who the coach is.
Barnesville Jacket
January 11th, 2013
5:17 pm
With that home schedule, I can already see GT having to beg people to buy heavily discounted tickets on Groupon. Sheesh. Two I-AA teams in one season? Gimme a friggin’ break.
Supersize that order, mutt
January 11th, 2013
5:25 pm
I don’t like the idea of playing Elon and Alabama A&M, but that’s par for the course in college football today. Are you mutts saying that North Texas and Ap State are any better? Only one of them may be a FCS school, as opposed to both on Tech’s schedule, but they’re still patsies. As far as the rest of the schedule, Tech has no more control over the quality of other teams in the ACC than UGA does over those in the SEC. It is what it is. That being said, I think all Tech fans would love to play better OOC teams, such as Auburn, Tenn, whoever, Maybe the new AD will realize the need for that kind of scheduling.
DollarDawg43
January 11th, 2013
5:34 pm
I’m kind of surprised by some of the carping on here. I think you guys will have an excellent team next year and will compete for your division. I believe you’re looking at 8-9 regular season wins with a reasonable chance of a ten win season.
Your defense will be much better (I’m happy for Ted Roof to have the opportunity to “come home” but, as a Georgia man, I don’t know how much I like that-I believe he is a better coach than many seem to realize) and that will make a huge difference.
I know this past year was rough but you guys are closer to being pretty darn good than you give yourselves credit for.
Supersize that order, mutt
January 11th, 2013
5:36 pm
Thanks, DollarDawg43
Rick James
January 11th, 2013
5:39 pm
@And, GT Bob…
…whgat is the difference in sigining a JUCO player and what Tech just did in having the MD guy transfer? And Tech COULD sign JUCO’s if they could find any who wanted to come to Tech – how did they get Dewberry from UGA, or that tight end who FLUNKED out of UGA but was eligible at Tech (many years ago)?
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Tyrone Sorrells
5150 UOAD
January 11th, 2013
5:48 pm
ACC………..step Up………….9 ACC games………..7 home games……1 FCS paid for win…….1 OOC RIVAL(UGa)………..One Big OOC in the South(SEC old foe[money H-n-H]) Tenn/Vandy/ Sou Carolina/ Bama/ Auburn………
Play BIG r go home………make the CUSTOMER want to BUY the Product. Don’t make me BUY 3-4 games I don’t want to see. I will PAY MORE for games that MATTER and make my STINGER STIFF.
spider
January 11th, 2013
5:49 pm
i love this home schedule, looks like several 10.00 game to me.
5150 UOAD
January 11th, 2013
5:50 pm
Rick James………go wash your Bentley and fry some more chicken for Da Brothers.
gt34backer
January 11th, 2013
6:01 pm
Dawgfan must have forgotten how many top ranked teams they played this year. Take a look at Texas A&M and tell me UGA had a better season…..When you play any real opponents….oh yeah I forgot you did play USC and lost! Let’s see that was 1 out of how many?
WnE
January 11th, 2013
6:16 pm
Paul in NH
January 11th, 2013
3:19 pm
WnE obviously needs to learn the meaning of the word SCHOLARship.
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And you need to earn the meaning of the word ATHLETIC, CPJ ain’t a friggin’ professor, he’s a PE MAJOR from Western Carolina and he judges ATHLETIC/FB ability first and then “The Hill” forces him to considers some level of academics.
BTW, the NCAA officially calls them a “Grant-in-Aid”, and not a scholly, in order to get these types of Grant-in-Aids you must have a lot of ATHLETIC ability, unless of course Pajamas is recruiting you.
Dacusville Bill
January 11th, 2013
6:23 pm
I really thought GT would beat Middle Tenn State in 2012, so I am not betting against Elon–Saw them beat Furman a while back, and errbody knows that Furman beat Tech back in the Salad–er -
- Curry–days—Wish Tech would fire Pitiful Paul and wish Cotton was a Monkey
just sayin
January 11th, 2013
6:44 pm
tech SUCKS
Rick James
January 11th, 2013
6:54 pm
@5150 UOAD
Rick James………go wash your Bentley and fry some more chicken for Da Brothers.
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I know that your narrow mindedness may not allow you absorb this but I own McDonald’s franchises not chicken shacks not KFC’s not Popeye’s or Churches.And beleive or not we dont serve watermelon..I do understand though how your ignorance allows you to automaticly link Brothers and chicken.I wont deny the Bentley.
Ronald
January 11th, 2013
6:56 pm
Honestly, I had no idea Georgia Tech still played football until I moved back to Atlanta a few months ago. Good to see they’re still chugging along and striving to be average.
And I drive a Rolls Royce.......NOT
January 11th, 2013
7:08 pm
People who brag about their income, their cars, their houses, or pretty much anything else can generally be assumed to be F O S !!!
That would include Rick James
Go back where you came from, Ronald
January 11th, 2013
7:09 pm
Enuf said
craig
January 11th, 2013
7:27 pm
There is a state law in Georgia that the bees and dawgs have to play. this was passed several years ago when the north avenue trade school wanted to end the series.
Sunbelt
January 11th, 2013
7:27 pm
Super, I wouldn’t go out trashing any Sunbelt teams, North Texas played MTSU just as well as GT did. . App. State has put more players in the NFL the past 2 drafts than Tech. Alabama State does have something Tech doesn’t , a 5 star Running Back.
Joe 12-Pack
January 11th, 2013
7:29 pm
Prediction for the next ten years: 6-6 and a Bowl game over 1000 miles away.
Tech Guy
January 11th, 2013
7:40 pm
Tech will have a diffcult time winning 7 games. There is the possibility of another losing season except for the addition of the two cupcakes. To get to 7 wins, Tech will have to win 5 of 8 ACC games which they haven’t done recently. Pittsburg and Syracuse haven’t seen Johnson’s triple option, so Tech could defeat them and win 5 ACC games.
If Ted Roof exceeds expectations, Tech could win 7 or more games. That’s a big if.
Supersize that order, mutt
January 11th, 2013
8:00 pm
@ Sunbelt…..Tech plays Alabama A&M, not Alabama State, although frankly, I’ve never heard of either of them. And actually, I wasn’t trashing anybody. All I was saying was that Tech is no different from anybody else in scheduling supposedly weak OOC opponents.
Supersize that order, mutt
January 11th, 2013
8:03 pm
@ Joe 12-Pack and Tech Guy……Tech was going to lose to FSU and SC by 5 or 6 TD’s too, weren’t we? Well, we see what those predictions were worth, and yours are about as meaningful….which is to say MEANINGLESS !!!!
Supersize that order, mutt
January 11th, 2013
8:06 pm
@ Tech Guy……Tech won at least 5 ACC games in 2008, 2009, 2011, and 2012. NEXT !!!!
Supersize that order, mutt
January 11th, 2013
8:07 pm
You’re not much of a “Tech guy” if you don’t even know our record.
5150 UOAD
January 11th, 2013
9:19 pm
Rick James……………I know what you have said you OWN. I say different to make you mad just like you post CRAP here to make Tech people mad. lol it works on you like you want it to work on us…..Now make some fires.
Bulljacket
January 12th, 2013
8:29 am
Sure tech77 – 9 or 10 wins? osama bin ladin would like a cool glass of ice water but that ain’t happening either.
Tony
January 12th, 2013
9:43 am
With the conferences growing and the soon to be 4 team play off the NCAA should go to true divisional champions playing. Every school plays all the teams in their division and those only count toward the division champion. Then the two division champs play for the conference title. Teams could schedule teams from the other side but they wouldn’t count toward the division championship. Never understood why a team would be the division champ but only because a competitor played tougher teams from the other side. So in many ways being divisional champion is just luck of the draw.
Then do away with playing FCS schools unless they have been in that group’s playoff in the last say 5 years. Would love this to be a shorter time frame but not sure if practical. That would allow for the GA State’s /App State’s of the world to be on the schedule.
This would improve the overall schedules and also not penalize a team by playing tougher teams from the other division and have at least somewhat competitive FCS teams. There could be more SEC/ACC games scheduled and more fan interest to go to the games.
Watching games from all over the country I see many stadiums that are not full and TV has a lot to do with that. AS many have essentially said here why pay to go see a game you know will be a blowout when you can sit at home watch it on TV and also catch others when the game gets out of hand.
The playoffs could be handle through this but that is for another day.
I know many will think this is crazy but before you say so come up with a better plan that will keep fan interest throughout the season and sell tickets.
Also I didn’t proof this so there could be some typos so if you are an English prof I don’t need those comments either unless it is totally not understandable.
White&Gold
January 12th, 2013
11:38 am
Bulljacket, you do realize even after blowing two games late in the fourth and losing to MTSU, we still won 7 games last year, right? Nine games isn’t impossible.
1 4 GT
January 12th, 2013
5:50 pm
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