1991 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team
American college football season
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Aloha Bowl champion
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Aloha Bowl
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Stanford
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Conference | Atlantic Coast Conference |
Record | 8–5 (5–2 ACC) |
Head coach |
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Offensive coordinator | Ralph Friedgen (5th season) |
Defensive coordinator | George O'Leary (5th season) |
Captain |
Mike Mooney
Willie Clay Steve Pharr |
Home stadium |
Bobby Dodd Stadium
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Conf | Overall | |||||||||||
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Team | W | L | T | W | L | T | ||||||
No. 18 Clemson $ | 6 | – | 0 | – | 1 | 9 | – | 2 | – | 1 | ||
No. 24 NC State | 5 | – | 2 | – | 0 | 9 | – | 3 | – | 0 | ||
Georgia Tech | 5 | – | 2 | – | 0 | 8 | – | 5 | – | 0 | ||
Virginia | 4 | – | 2 | – | 1 | 8 | – | 3 | – | 1 | ||
North Carolina | 3 | – | 4 | – | 0 | 7 | – | 4 | – | 0 | ||
Maryland | 2 | – | 5 | – | 0 | 2 | – | 9 | – | 0 | ||
Duke | 1 | – | 6 | – | 0 | 4 | – | 6 | – | 1 | ||
Wake Forest | 1 | – | 6 | – | 0 | 3 | – | 8 | – | 0 | ||
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The 1991 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team represented the Georgia Institute of Technology during the 1991 NCAA Division I-A football season . The Yellow Jackets were led by head coach Bobby Ross in his fifth and final year with the team, and played their home games at Bobby Dodd Stadium in Atlanta, Georgia . They competed as members of the Atlantic Coast Conference , finishing tied for second.
The defending national champions of the Coaches Poll , Georgia Tech finished with a disappointing five losses. They opened the year with a top-ten battle with Penn State in the Kickoff Classic , losing 22–34. Further losses to ACC foes Clemson and NC State knocked Georgia Tech out of the polls. They won 5 of their last 6, however, capped by a come-from-behind win over Stanford in the 1991 Aloha Bowl in Honolulu .
Schedule
Date | Opponent | Rank | Site | TV | Result | Attendance |
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August 28 | vs. No. 7 Penn State * | No. 8 | Raycom | L 22–34 | 77,409 | |
September 14 | at Boston College * | No. 17 | W 30–14 | 26,108 | ||
September 19 | Virginia | No. 17 | ESPN | W 24–21 | 42,192 | |
September 28 | at No. 7 Clemson | No. 19 | ABC | L 7–9 | 83,500 | |
October 5 | at No. 19 NC State | No. 21 | Raycom | L 21–28 | 44,105 | |
October 12 | Maryland |
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Raycom | W 34–10 | 42,011 | |
October 19 | at South Carolina * | L 14–23 | 62,220 | |||
October 26 |
North Carolina
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Raycom | W 35–14 | 45,542 | |
November 2 | at Duke | W 17–6 | 38,732 | |||
November 9 | Furman * |
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W 19–17 | 40,039 | ||
November 16 | Wake Forest |
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Raycom | W 27–3 | 38,124 | |
November 30 | No. 25 Georgia * |
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Raycom | L 15–18 | 46,053 | |
December 25 | vs. No. 17 Stanford * | ABC | W 18–17 | 34,433 | ||
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Roster
1991 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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Game summaries
Vs. Penn State
Vs. Stanford (Aloha Bowl)
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References
- ↑ "1991 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets Schedule and Results" . Sports Reference LLC . Retrieved June 12, 2017 .
- ↑ 2011 Georgia Tech Media Guide Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine . p. 174
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