Six Saturdays at Bobby Dodd Stadium
Last night, the final seven games of Georgia Tech’s football schedule was announced, giving us the complete picture of what for many of us our fall Saturday’s will look like:
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After a 2024 season filled with one off games and non-Saturday kickoffs, we’re back with a far more traditional schedule, the exception being that we face georgia in Mercedes-Benz Stadium the Friday of Thanksgiving week again as part of GTAA’s deal to play one home game a year in MBS.
2025 is the final year Tech is not scheduled to play one of the new ACC members in football. Tech is slated to visit Stanford in 2026.
Of course, we kickoff against Colorado the 5th Down School of Mathematics in Boulder, which will be one of the best destination trips for Tech fans in recent memory on Labor Day weekend, a trip our own Chris Paschal took last season. The Buffs will be without Travis Hunter and Shadeur Sanders but picked up Julian Lewis, a five star QB recruit who we imagine will be starting his first career college game against Tech.
Clemson will kickoff our ACC slate in Bobby Dodd Stadium before our second ever matchup against Temple, one that I hope results in our defense forcing a safety as payback for last time.
After that, it’s a good run of winnable games. Tech doesn’t travel in consecutive weeks, which is awesome. For fans wanting to travel during the ACC slate, three of them are driveable in North Carolina and the other in Boston at least is in a fun metropolis.
We knew coming in this schedule was set up for us to do well. Now it’s just a matter of actually doing the job.
Staff Thoughts
Carter Templeton: For the first time in seemingly ages, Georgia Tech football’s schedule for this year….. actually looks pretty good. The 5/4/3 game sets split by byes is about or exactly as good as it can get, depending on your perspective. The road trip potential is extremely high, with three trips to the state of North Carolina in addition to the much hyped opener in Boulder, and there’s plenty to like about a trip to Boston, too, even if it’s in mid-November and the sun is setting before 4:30. (The latter is heavily mitigated by having access to a lot of the country’s best breweries.) There aren’t nearly as many clear playoff contenders as there were in 2024, and, in theory, Tech fans shouldn’t be chewing their fingernails off over if the team will be bowl-eligible in November, like last year. As someone who has a history of lambasting Tech’s football schedules, I don’t have a lot of complaints this time around.Just put Gardner-Webb and Temple away early. Please.
Stephen Murphey: Unofficial party line has been and shall remain: “Make a Bowl Game. Don’t embarrass me.”
Logan Sandor: If you’re an optimist this schedule sets up to be our year. Even our toughest teams have on the schedule have been slumping and with the offensive talent we have returning we should win most of the games on our schedule.If you’re a realist then this sets up to be a good season with a few big challenges. You were probably hoping for some better bye weeks but there’s a lot of home games and a good chance for us to impress some people this year.If you’re a pessimist then you’re probably trying to guess if we’re more likely to lose to Temple or Gardner-Webb.
Jack Purdy: We’ll get into season predictions later this year, but from the outset I love that this has a mix of a fun P4 game, classic rivalries, and a bunch of games easy for Georgia Tech fans to get to. We have no weekday games that fall outside holidays. Homecoming probably will slot in for the Virginia Tech or Syracuse games. We’ve got at least two home games a month (COFH inclusive) to keep people on campus regularly during the fall. I have no qualms with this setup. Can’t wait to go 12-0 and continue to be the most entertaining team in college football.
Let us know how y’all feel about the schedule! If you don’t have season tickets, you know you want them 🙂