The Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team represents the Georgia Institute of Technology in NCAA Division 1 Collegiate Competition. The Yellow Jackets’ collegiate football team plays in the Coastal Division of the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) and the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) (ACC).
Georgia Tech has had a football team every year since 1892, and as of the 2020 campaign, they had a 740-518-43 overall record. Bobby Dodd Stadium can accommodate up to 55,000 spectators at the Yellow Jackets’ home stadium, Historic Grant Field in Atlanta, Georgia.
It has been one of the most prestigious national collegiate football programs for more than a century and is still a college football powerhouse.
The first football team at Tech was a loosely-knit group of students called the Blacksmiths. On November 5, 1892, Tech met Mercer University in its first football game. The squad lost to Mercer at Macon, Georgia, 12-6. Tech played two more games during their first season, but they lost both of them, going 0-3 overall.
How many national championships in football has Georgia Tech won?
In 1917, 1928, 1952, and 1990, Georgia Tech won the national championship. As part of their present affiliation with the Atlantic Coast Conference, the Yellow Jackets have also won titles in three of the former Southern Conference, five of the Southeastern Conference, and two other leagues.
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