Saturday 9 April 2011

Georgia Tech College Football

By Steven Jorgensenn


The Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets are constantly a force to be reckoned with inside the difficult ACC. Even though this may well well be considered a rebuilding season after the loss of four major players to the NFL draft, the team's record is 3-2 as of the 1st week of October. There have been wins over South Carolina State, North Carolina, and Wake Forest. Their losses have been to Kansas and ACC rival NC State.

The Yellow Jackets have a tough conference schedule in front of them, with upcoming conference games against Virginia, Clemson, Duke, Miami, and Virginia Tech. The Yellow Jacket's last game of the season is traditionally played against in state rival University of Georgia. You will find 4 remaining home games this season.

Paul Johnson has been the head football coach at Georgia Tech since 2008. He previously served as the head coach at GSU from 1997-2001 and also the US Naval Academy from 2002-07. Johnson amassed a 20-7 record in his 1st 2 years at Tech, and led the team to the ACC Championship in 2009. The Yellow Jackets also went on to play within the Chick fil-A Bowl in 2008 and also the Orange Bowl in 2009.

The Yellow Jackets play their home games in Bobby Dodd Stadium at Historic Grant Field, inside the heart of the Tech campus. Built in 1913, the stadium is the oldest on campus stadium in Division I football. The stadium is named for Georgia Tech coaching legend Bobby Dodd, the head coach for twenty two years, from 1945-66. Bobby Dodd stadium supplies fans with a magnificent view of downtown Atlanta's skyline. A main expansion of the stadium was completed in 2003, adding extra seating at both end zones, new locker rooms, a player's lounge, a media room, and coach's offices. The current seating capacity is 55,000 seats.

Georgia Institute of Technology was founded in 1885. It is considered 1 of the leading research universities inside the country. Located on four hundred acres in the heart of Atlanta, Tech has an enrollment of over 20,000 students. US News & World Reports has consistently ranked Georgia Tech among the top ten public universities within the nation. The university offers degree programs in 36 undergraduate majors, 47 master's programs, and thirty doctoral programs.




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