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Future Tennessee-Georgia Tech (Or another ACC team) game still in the works - GTFletch - 07-14-2015 04:05 AM
LINK
http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/sports/college/story/2015/jul/13/future-tennessee-georgia-tech-game-still-works/314427/
"We've talked to Tennessee. We've talked to Georgia Tech. We've worked with (Tennessee athletic director) Dave Hart in the past. Hopefully we can get something together, whether it's Georgia Tech-Tennessee, or Tennessee against somebody else down the road. We'd love to have them in the Chick-fil-A Kickoff Game." - Gary Stokan, the president and CEO of the Peach Bowl
Read the Link.... It is interesting to me that FSU and Bama came together with in 45 to 60 days and the GT/Tennessee rumor has been for 18 months... It appears it is dead or their is something is stalling the agreement....Does not sound like a 2017 GT/TENN game is close to being official to me....
RE: Future Tennessee-Georgia Tech (Or another ACC team) game still in the works - GTFletch - 07-14-2015 04:08 AM
Link to David Paschal tweet confirming GT or another ACC team..
https://twitter.com/DavidSPaschall/status/620673665458253824
RE: Future Tennessee-Georgia Tech (Or another ACC team) game still in the works - XLance - 07-14-2015 07:28 AM
Tennessee cancelled a game with Carolina a few years ago and put us in a terrible scheduling situation. It seems that they didn't want to play unless they would be assured of a win so that their SEC ego wouldn't be bruised
I can see why they don't want to play Georgia Tech and get beaten like a drum.
RE: Future Tennessee-Georgia Tech (Or another ACC team) game still in the works - TexanMark - 07-14-2015 08:02 AM
UT is actually getting pretty good...one of my sleeper picks this year to get back into the Top 10
RE: Future Tennessee-Georgia Tech (Or another ACC team) game still in the works - ecuacc4ever - 07-14-2015 08:10 AM
Seems to me the easy solution is for Tennessee to play Duke.
Problem solved.
RE: Future Tennessee-Georgia Tech (Or another ACC team) game still in the works - Marge Schott - 07-14-2015 10:34 AM
FSU had been in talks with Atlanta for quite some time, much longer than 45-60 days. Regardless, FSU is a better draw.
RE: Future Tennessee-Georgia Tech (Or another ACC team) game still in the works - WakeForestRanger - 07-14-2015 11:58 AM
There's some talk that a Wake Forest - South Carolina game is in the works but Charlotte is the most likely site for that game. Atlanta tends to avoid us like the plague.
RE: Future Tennessee-Georgia Tech (Or another ACC team) game still in the works - Hokie Mark - 07-14-2015 12:10 PM
(07-14-2015 11:58 AM)WakeForestRanger Wrote: There's some talk that a Wake Forest - South Carolina game is in the works but Charlotte is the most likely site for that game. Atlanta tends to avoid us like the plague.
Charlotte would be a good place for Wake Forest to play, IMO.
Lots of alumni in the area.
RE: Future Tennessee-Georgia Tech (Or another ACC team) game still in the works - WakeForestRanger - 07-20-2015 09:00 AM
Georgia Tech will open the 2017 college football season on Monday, Sept. 4, against Tennessee in the Chick-fil-A Kickoff Game, announced Monday by Chick-fil-A Kickoff Game organizers. The 2017 date will be the first game between the former SEC rivals in 30 years.
The game will be one of the first college games played in the Atlanta Falcons’ state-of-the-art New Atlanta Stadium, set to open earlier that year. The game will kick off in prime time and be nationally telecast on ESPN.
https://accsports.com/georgia-tech-to-open-2017-season-vs-tennessee/
RE: Future Tennessee-Georgia Tech (Or another ACC team) game still in the works - ecuacc4ever - 07-20-2015 09:17 AM
#GOACC
I like this matchup.
RE: Future Tennessee-Georgia Tech (Or another ACC team) game still in the works - Hokie Mark - 07-20-2015 10:15 AM
Glad this worked out. Should be a good game...
So basically we have FSU vs. Alabama on Saturday, then GT vs Tennessee on Monday night - a Chick-Fil-A Kickoff double-feature.
RE: Future Tennessee-Georgia Tech (Or another ACC team) game still in the works - HRFlossY - 07-20-2015 12:33 PM
(07-20-2015 10:15 AM)Hokie Mark Wrote: Glad this worked out. Should be a good game...
So basically we have FSU vs. Alabama on Saturday, then GT vs Tennessee on Monday night - a Chick-Fil-A Kickoff double-feature.
RE: Future Tennessee-Georgia Tech (Or another ACC team) game still in the works - GTFletch - 07-20-2015 02:42 PM
Super Pumped....Not sure what took so long but at least it got done!