2001 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team
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| AP | No. 24 |
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| Team | W | L | W | L | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| No. 11 Maryland $ | 7 | – | 1 | 10 | – | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| No. 15 Florida State | 6 | – | 2 | 8 | – | 4 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| North Carolina | 5 | – | 3 | 8 | – | 5 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Clemson | 4 | – | 4 | 7 | – | 5 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| No. 24 Georgia Tech | 4 | – | 4 | 8 | – | 5 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| NC State | 4 | – | 4 | 7 | – | 5 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Wake Forest | 3 | – | 5 | 6 | – | 5 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Virginia | 3 | – | 5 | 5 | – | 7 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Duke | 0 | – | 8 | 0 | – | 11 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The 2001 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team represented the Georgia Institute of Technology in the 2001 NCAA Division I-A football season. The team's coach was George O'Leary, who would leave the school before the bowl game to accept the head coaching job at the University of Notre Dame. It played its home games at Bobby Dodd Stadium in Atlanta.
Preseason
Coming off of three strong seasons (including 3 straight New Year's Day bowl appearances and 3 wins over the archrival Georgia Bulldogs), the Jackets were expected to contend for the National Championship in 2001. In 2000, quarterback George Godsey had picked up where his predecessor Joe Hamilton had left off, passing for 2,906 yards and 23 touchdowns (against just 6 interceptions). Armed with targets like Kelly Campbell for his senior season, a number of preseason magazines named Godsey to 1st Team All-ACC honors, and pundits predicted that a loaded Georgia Tech team would win the Atlantic Coast Conference title with the departure of many key players from the defending champion Florida State Seminoles.
Schedule
August 262:00 PMvs. Syracuse*No. 10
ABCW 13–7 41,517 September 16:00 PMThe Citadel*No. 11
W 35–7 41,804 September 812:00 PMat Navy*No. 10
FSNW 70–7 30,602 September 293:30 PMClemsonNo. 9
- Bobby Dodd Stadium
- Atlanta, GA (Rivalry)
ABCL 44–47 OT41,924 October 61:00 PMat DukeNo. 17
W 37–10 10,431 October 117:30 PMNo. 22 MarylandNo. 15
- Bobby Dodd Stadium
- Atlanta, GA
ESPNL 17–20 40,574 October 203:30 PMNC StateNo. 23
- Bobby Dodd Stadium
- Atlanta, GA
ABCW 27–17 41,942 November 17:30 PMNo. 22 North CarolinaNo. 23
- Bobby Dodd Stadium
- Atlanta, GA
ESPNW 28–21 41,893 November 103:15 PMat VirginiaNo. 20
L 38–39 52,494 November 1712:00 PMat Wake Forest
JPSW 38–33 24,263 November 247:45 PMNo. 19 Georgia*No. 21
- Bobby Dodd Stadium
- Atlanta, GA (Clean, Old-Fashioned Hate)
ESPNL 17–31 41,974 December 13:30 PMat Florida State
ESPNL 17–28 82,269 December 274:00 PMvs. No. 11 Stanford*
ESPNW 24–14 30,144
Coaching staff
- George O'Leary, head coach
- Bill O'Brien, offensive coordinator, quarterbacks coach
- Ted Roof, defensive coordinator
References
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