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This is a list of seasons completed by the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS). Since the team's creation in 1892, the Yellow Jackets have participated in more than 1,300 officially sanctioned games, including 46 bowl games.
For his part, Heisman led Georgia Tech to an undefeated 12–0–1 record in the Georgia Tech–Clemson football rivalry. A number of successful collegiate and professional football players have also played for Tech. The program has 48 first-team All-Americans and over 150 alumni who have played in the NFL.
Alexander holds the Georgia Tech record for the longest coaching tenure (25 seasons), most games coached (244), most losses (95), and most ties (15). Heisman has the highest winning percentage, (.759), among Georgia Tech coaches who coached at least ten games. Dodd holds the Georgia Tech record for most wins (165). [7]
Georgia Tech also fields men and women's track and field, [24] men and women's swimming and diving, [24] men and women's cross country, and assorted club sports. Georgia Tech's Angelo Taylor won gold medals in 400 m hurdles at the 2000 and 2008 Summer Olympics. Buddy Fowlkes was one of Tech's most successful track coaches.
SOURCE: Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System, Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus (2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010). Read our methodology here . HuffPost and The Chronicle examined 201 public D-I schools from 2010-2014.
Started for Georgia Tech throughout senior season. Returned to Georgia Tech in 1937 to coach Tech junior varsity football. [45] Marshall Flowers: 1931 Earl Dunlap 1929–1930 Captain of the 1930 Georgia Tech football team and starting quarter for junior and senior seasons. Professional boxer from 1932 to 1933. [46] Bob Durant 1927–1928
In the 2013 and 2014 seasons, competing at the highest level of the National Collegiate Athletic Association, the team recorded just a single victory. Average attendance last year was among the 10 worst in the NCAA’s top level. Yet Georgia State’s 32,000 students are still required to cover much of the costs.
The teams first met in 1898, when Clemson's third-year program defeated Georgia Tech 23–0 to finish with a 3–1 record. The following year, the Tigers beat Tech again, 41–5. [ 4 ] In 1904, Georgia Tech lured away Clemson's head coach, John Heisman (namesake of the Heisman Trophy ), with the prospect of $450 pay raise ($15,260 adjusted for ...