Now that the book has closed on the 2024 Georgia Tech football season, work can begin in earnest to start preparing for 2025 and what looks to be another challenging slate for the Yellow Jackets.
Tech will face seven teams that made a bowl game in 2024 and two that qualified for the College Football Playoff. Seven opponents finished with a winning record and an eighth, Virginia Tech, could fall into that category if the Hokies win their bowl game in January.
The Jackets begin 2025 with a trip to Colorado, a state it hasn’t played in since Eddie Lee Ivery ran for 356 yards at Air Force in 1978. In Boulder on Aug. 30, Tech will face a Colorado team that went 9-4 this past season — but loses Heisman Trophy winner Travis Hunter and starting quarterback Shedeur Sanders off this year’s roster.
Now coached by former Atlanta Falcons and Braves star Deion Sanders, Colorado split the 1990 national championship with Tech. The two programs, however, have never played before.
Tech has two games currently scheduled in the month of September, both at Bobby Dodd Stadium: Gardner-Webb comes to Atlanta on Sept. 6 and Temple visits Sept. 20. Gardner-Webb, an FCS program went 4-8 this year while Temple finished 3-9.
The Jackets will look for a bit of retribution against the Owls, having lost at Temple 24-2 in 2019. Tech has played Gardner-Webb just once before, squeaking out a 10-7 win in 2008.
The ACC has not set dates for Tech’s 2025 conference schedule, but the Jackets do know their opponents. Clemson, Pittsburgh, Syracuse and Virginia Tech will come to Bobby Dodd Stadium and Tech will travel to Boston College, Duke, North Carolina State and Wake Forest.
Four of those contests will be rematches from 2024, contests Tech split. Tech, ranked No. 23 at the time, lost 31-28 at Syracuse on Sept. 7 and lost 21-6 at Virginia Tech on Oct. 26. It beat Duke, undefeated at the time, 24-14 on Oct. 5, and topped N.C. State 30-29 on Nov. 21 thanks to freshman quarterback Aaron Philo’s late-game heroics.
Returning to Tech’s schedule in 2025 are Clemson, Pittsburgh, Boston College and Wake Forest. The Jackets have faced Pitt 17 times, with 10 of those matchups coming since 2013, and beat the Panthers 26-21 in 2022 in Pittsburgh. Tech has beaten Wake Forest four times in a row, including the 2023 meeting, but has lost three straight to Boston College, including the Eagles win in 2023 at Bobby Dodd Stadium.
Tech and Clemson renew an 88-game rivalry that took a hiatus in 2024, the first year the two longtime foes hadn’t met since 1982. Clemson went 10-4 this year, won the ACC title and lost at Texas in the first round of the College Football Playoffs.
And then, there is the Georgia game.
Scheduled for Saturday, Nov. 29, the latest version of Clean Old-Fashioned Hate will be played at Mercedes-Benz Stadium. Tech has lost seven in a row to Georgia and has never fallen in eight straight matchups.
A month ago, the Jackets and Bulldogs played one of the more epic games in the history of the rivalry when UGA outlasted Tech 44-42 in eight overtimes in Athens. Georgia, currently 11-2, is preparing to face Notre Dame in the quarterfinals of the College Playoff on Wednesday in New Orleans.
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