Team: Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets
Stadium: Boddy Dodd Stadium
Conference: ACC
Sport: College Football
Background: The Georgia Institute of
Technology, or Georgia Tech for short, is a public university
in midtown Atlanta, Georgia with about 15,000 students.
Founded in 1885 as the Georgia School of Technology,
it is primarily an engineering and science school, though
it is also well-known for its programs in the related
disciplines of architecture, mathematics, management,
computer science, and public affairs. Georgia Tech's
campus was the site of the athletes' village and a venue
for a number of athletic events for the 1996 Summer
Olympics.
Georgia Tech was at one time often referred to as the
North Avenue Trade School, although this was never its
official title. The name stems from the fact that the
campus is bordered to the south by North Avenue, and
that the school, in its earlier years was operated much
like a trade school, with students working part of the
day in a machine shop, and the other part of the day
in classrooms.