2001 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team
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.
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Seattle Bowl champion | |
Conference | Atlantic Coast Conference |
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AP | No. 24 |
2001 record | 8–5 (4–4 ACC) |
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Offensive coordinator | Bill O'Brien (1st season) |
Offensive scheme | Mixed Shotgun & Ace |
Defensive coordinator | Ted Roof (3rd season) |
Home stadium | Bobby Dodd Stadium (Capacity: 41,000) |
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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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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 | ABC | W 13–7 | 41,517 | |
September 1 | 6:00 pm | The Citadel* | No. 11 | W 35–7 | 41,804 | ||
September 8 | 12:00 pm | at Navy* | No. 10 | FSN | W 70–7 | 30,602 | |
September 29 | 3:30 pm | Clemson | No. 9 |
| ABC | L 44–47 OT | 41,924 |
October 6 | 1:00 pm | at Duke | No. 17 | W 37–10 | 10,431 | ||
October 11 | 7:30 pm | No. 22 Maryland | No. 15 |
| ESPN | L 17–20 | 40,574 |
October 20 | 3:30 pm | NC State | No. 23 |
| ABC | W 27–17 | 41,942 |
November 1 | 7:30 pm | No. 22 North Carolina | No. 23 |
| ESPN | W 28–21 | 41,893 |
November 10 | 3:15 pm | at Virginia | No. 20 | L 38–39 | 52,494 | ||
November 17 | 12:00 pm | at Wake Forest | JPS | W 38–33 | 24,263 | ||
November 24 | 7:45 pm | No. 19 Georgia* | No. 21 |
| ESPN | L 17–31 | 41,974 |
December 1 | 3:30 pm | at Florida State | ESPN | L 17–28 | 82,269 | ||
December 27 | 4:00 pm | vs. No. 11 Stanford* | ESPN | W 24–14 | 30,144 | ||
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Roster
2001 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team roster | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Offense
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Defense
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Special teams
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Coaching staff
- George O'Leary, head coach
- Bill O'Brien, offensive coordinator, quarterbacks coach
- Ted Roof, defensive coordinator