2001 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team
| 2001 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football | |
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Seattle Bowl Champions | |
| Conference | Atlantic Coast Conference |
| Ranking | |
| AP | No. 24 |
| 2001 record | 8–5 (4–4 ACC) |
| Head coach | George O'Leary |
| Offensive coordinator | Bill O'Brien |
| Offensive scheme | Mixed Shotgun & Ace |
| Defensive coordinator | Ted Roof |
| Home stadium |
Bobby Dodd Stadium (Capacity: 41,000) |
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| Team | W | L | W | L | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| #11 Maryland $ | 7 | – | 1 | 10 | – | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| #15 Florida State | 6 | – | 2 | 8 | – | 4 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| North Carolina | 5 | – | 3 | 8 | – | 5 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Clemson | 4 | – | 4 | 7 | – | 5 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| #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
| Date | Time | Opponent# | Rank# | Site | TV | Result | Attendance | ||
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| August 26 | 2:00 PM | vs. Syracuse* | No. 10 | Giants Stadium • East Rutherford, NJ (Kickoff Classic) | ABC | W 13–7 | 41,517 | ||
| September 1 | 6:00 PM | The Citadel* | No. 11 | Bobby Dodd Stadium • Atlanta, GA | W 35–7 | 41,804 | |||
| September 8 | 12:00 PM | at Navy* | No. 10 | Navy–Marine Corps Memorial Stadium • Annapolis, MD | FSN | W 70–7 | 30,602 | ||
| September 29 | 3:30 PM | Clemson | No. 9 | Bobby Dodd Stadium • Atlanta, GA (Rivalry) | ABC | L 44–47 OT | 41,924 | ||
| October 6 | 1:00 PM | at Duke | No. 17 | Wallace Wade Stadium • Durham, NC | W 37–10 | 10,431 | |||
| October 11 | 7:30 PM | No. 22 Maryland | No. 15 | Bobby Dodd Stadium • Atlanta, GA | ESPN | L 17–20 | 40,574 | ||
| October 20 | 3:30 PM | NC State | No. 23 | Bobby Dodd Stadium • Atlanta, GA | ABC | W 27–17 | 41,942 | ||
| November 1 | 7:30 PM | No. 22 North Carolina | No. 23 | Bobby Dodd Stadium • Atlanta, GA | ESPN | W 28–21 | 41,893 | ||
| November 10 | 3:15 PM | at Virginia | No. 20 | Scott Stadium • Charlottesville, VA | L 38–39 | 52,494 | |||
| November 17 | 12:00 PM | at Wake Forest | Groves Stadium • Winston-Salem, NC | JPS | W 38–33 | 24,263 | |||
| November 24 | 7:45 PM | No. 19 Georgia* | No. 21 | Bobby Dodd Stadium • Atlanta, GA (Clean, Old-Fashioned Hate) | ESPN | L 17–31 | 41,974 | ||
| December 1 | 3:30 PM | at Florida State | Doak Campbell Stadium • Tallahassee, FL | ESPN | L 17–28 | 82,269 | |||
| December 27 | 4:00 PM | vs. No. 11 Stanford* | Safeco Field • Seattle, WA (Seattle Bowl) | ESPN | W 24–14 | 30,144 | |||
*Non-conference game.  Homecoming. #Rankings from AP Poll released prior to game. All times are in Eastern Time. | |||||||||
Coaching staff
- George O'Leary, head coach
- Bill O'Brien, offensive coordinator, quarterbacks coach
- Ted Roof, defensive coordinator