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.
2001, georgia, tech, yellow, jackets, football, team, represented, georgia, institute, technology, 2001, ncaa, division, football, season, team, coach, george, leary, would, leave, school, before, bowl, game, accept, head, coaching, university, notre, dame, pl. 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 2001 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets footballSeattle Bowl championSeattle Bowl W 24 14 vs StanfordConferenceAtlantic Coast ConferenceRankingAPNo 24Record8 5 4 4 ACC Head coachGeorge O Leary 8th season Offensive coordinatorBill O Brien 1st season Offensive schemeMixed Shotgun amp AceDefensive coordinatorTed Roof 3rd season Home stadiumBobby Dodd Stadium Capacity 41 000 Seasons 20002002 2001 Atlantic Coast Conference football standingsvte Conf OverallTeam 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 BCS representative as conference championRankings from AP Poll Contents 1 Preseason 2 Schedule 3 Roster 4 Coaching staff 5 ReferencesPreseason EditComing 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 EditDateTimeOpponentRankSiteTVResultAttendanceAugust 262 00 pmvs Syracuse No 10Giants StadiumEast Rutherford New Jersey Kickoff Classic ABCW 13 741 517September 16 00 pmThe Citadel No 11Bobby Dodd StadiumAtlantaW 35 741 804September 812 00 pmat Navy No 10Navy Marine Corps Memorial StadiumAnnapolis MarylandFSNW 70 730 602September 293 30 pmClemsonNo 9Bobby Dodd StadiumAtlanta rivalry ABCL 44 47 OT41 924October 61 00 pmat DukeNo 17Wallace Wade StadiumDurham North CarolinaW 37 1010 431October 117 30 pmNo 22 MarylandNo 15Bobby Dodd StadiumAtlantaESPNL 17 20 OT40 574October 203 30 pmNC StateNo 23Bobby Dodd StadiumAtlantaABCW 27 1741 942November 17 30 pmNo 22 North CarolinaNo 23Bobby Dodd StadiumAtlantaESPNW 28 2141 893November 103 15 pmat VirginiaNo 20Scott StadiumCharlottesville VirginiaL 38 3952 494November 1712 00 pmat Wake ForestGroves StadiumWinston Salem North CarolinaJPSW 38 3324 263November 247 45 pmNo 19 Georgia No 21Bobby Dodd StadiumAtlanta Clean Old Fashioned Hate ESPNL 17 3141 974December 13 30 pmat Florida StateDoak Campbell StadiumTallahassee FloridaESPNL 17 2882 269December 274 00 pmvs No 11 Stanford Safeco FieldSeattle Seattle Bowl ESPNW 24 1430 144 Non conference gameRankings from AP Poll released prior to the gameAll times are in Eastern timeRoster Edit2001 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team rosterPlayers CoachesOffense Pos Name ClassTE 85 Salih Besirevic FrWR 8 Trevor Browman FrG 63 Tim Brown JrRB 35 Joe Burns SrWR 6 Kelly Campbell SrWR 5 Nate Curry SoRB 48 P J Daniels FrOT 70 Nat Dorsey FrRB 2 Sidney Ford JrTE 89 John Paul Foschi SoQB 11 George Godsey SrWR 3 Will Glover JrQB 13 Andy Hall SoG 72 Brad Honeycutt FrTE 84 Will Hunter SoTE 88 Brian Lee JrFB 45 Ross Mitchell SrC 61 David Schmidgall SrWR 82 Jonathan Smith SoWR 9 Kerry Watkins Jr Defense Pos Name ClassDT 99 Omar Billy FrFS 22 James Butler FrCB 23 Joanthan Cox SoSS 4 Corey Collins JrLB 59 Matthew Eiheridge JrDE 44 Tony Hargrove FrDT 96 Gary Johnson JrFS 21 Marty O Leary SrDE 38 Nick Rogers SrLB 51 Daryl Smith SoDE 56 Scott Wolf FrSS 33 Chris Young Sr Special teams Pos Name ClassK 4 Max DiPace JrP 30 Dan Dyke Jr Head coachGeorge O LearyCoordinators assistant coachesLegend C Team captain S Suspended I Ineligible Injured RedshirtRosterCoaching staff EditGeorge O Leary head coach Bill O Brien offensive coordinator quarterbacks coach Ted Roof defensive coordinatorReferences Edit Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title 2001 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team amp oldid 1110461689, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
