GEORGIA TECH FOOTBALL vs. GEORGIA STATE
Saturday, Aug. 31 · 8 p.m. ET · Atlanta, Ga. · Bobby Dodd Stadium at Hyundai Field
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Under the lights at Bobby Dodd Stadium at Hyundai Field will be the setting for Saturday’s home opener between Georgia Tech and Georgia State
• Coming off its first season-opening victory in four years and looking to move to 2-0 for the first time in eight seasons, Georgia Tech opens the home portion of its 2024 schedule versus Georgia State.
• Georgia Tech opened its 2024 slate by knocking off No. 10 Florida State, 24-21, last Saturday in the Aer Lingus College Football Classic in Dublin, Ireland. Aidan Birr’s 44-yard game-winning field goal as time expired capped a 12-play drive that milked the final 6:33 off the clock for the Yellow Jackets.
• Tech won its season opener for the first time since it won at Florida State, 16-13, in the 2020 opener.
• Last Saturday’s win over No. 10 Florida State was the Jackets’ first over a top-10 opponent since their 22-16 “Miracle on Techwood Drive” triumph over No. 9 FSU on Oct. 24, 2015.
• Georgia Tech’s season-opening win over a top-10 opponent was its first since it knocked off No. 4 Alabama, 24-21, Sept. 12, 1981.
• The Yellow Jackets are looking to move to 2-0 for the first time since they won their first three games of the 2016 season.
• Although their campuses are separated by less than two miles, Georgia Tech and Georgia State are meeting for the first time on the gridiron.
• Georgia Tech is 39-4-2 all-time against opponents from the state of Georgia besides archrival Georgia. The Yellow Jackets have not lost to an in-state opponent besides UGA since a 7-6 loss to Oglethorpe on Sept. 25, 1926. Its only other defeats to in-state opponents besides UGA came in the 19th century.
2024 GEORGIA TECH FOOTBALL TICKETS
Season Tickets
2024 Georgia Tech football season tickets are on sale now and include the best seats for the Yellow Jackets’ six-game home slate, which features Atlantic Coast Conference showdowns against Duke, NC State and Miami (Fla.) at Bobby Dodd Stadium at Hyundai Field and Tech’s highly anticipated matchup with Notre Dame at Mercedes-Benz Stadium. Season ticket packages begin at just $225. Click HERE to become a season ticket member today.
Three-Game Mini-Plans
Three-game mini-ticket plans to catch the exciting action of Georgia Tech football in 2024 are on sale now. Mini-plans include a ticket to the Yellow Jackets’ highly anticipated showdown versus Notre Dame on Oct. 19 at Mercedes-Benz Stadium, the Sept. 14 Military Appreciation Day home game versus VMI and the choice of either the Oct. 5 ACC matchup versus Duke or the Nov. 21 primetime ACC battle against NC State. Click HERE to purchase a three-game mini-plan.
Single-Game Tickets
Single-game tickets for Georgia Tech’s five home games at Bobby Dodd Stadium at Hyundai Field in 2024 – Aug. 31 vs. Georgia State, Sept. 14 vs. VMI, Oct. 5 vs. Duke, Nov. 9 vs. Miami (Fla.) and Nov. 21 vs. NC State – and a limited number of single-game tickets for the Notre Dame game on Oct. 19 at Mercedes-Benz Stadium are on sale now and can be purchased by clicking HERE.
Following the Yellow Jackets’ 24-21 victory over No. 10 Florida State in the Aer Lingus College Football Classic, Head coach Brent Key was named the Bobby Dodd Trophy National Coach of the Week, while r-Jr. QB Haynes King (Longview, Texas/Longview H.S.), RB Jamal Haynes (Loganville, Ga./Grayson H.S.), OL Weston Franklin (Jesup, Ga./Wayne County H.S.) and LB Kyle Efford (Dacula, Ga./Dacula H.S.) were all named Atlantic Coast Conference Players of the Week for their roles in the Yellow Jackets’ win over the 10th-ranked Seminoles.
Alexander-Tharpe Fund
The Alexander-Tharpe Fund is the fundraising arm of Georgia Tech athletics, providing scholarship, operations and facilities support for Tech’s 400-plus student-athletes. Be a part of the development of Yellow Jackets that thrive academically at the Institute and compete for championships at the highest levels of college athletics by supporting the Annual Athletic Scholarship Fund, which directly provides scholarships for Georgia Tech student-athletes. To learn more about supporting the Yellow Jackets, visit atfund.org.
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