The Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets were scheduled to travel to take on the Georgia State Panthers in 2026, but that game will not be played, according to a Wednesday release.
On Wednesday, Georgia Tech announced a new home-and-home football series with the Tennessee Volunteers for the 2026 and 2027 seasons. The Panthers’ game with the Yellow Jackets was slated for Saturday, Sept. 19.
“We are greatly disappointed in the contract not being fulfilled, especially considering that we played at Bobby Dodd this fall,” Georgia State Athletic Director Charlie Cobb said in the release. “Moving forward, we will take the cancelation fee and invest significantly in our program.”
The cancelation fee is $1,000,000. The contract was signed in 2019.
The Panthers’ amended 2026 campaign features a home date with North Carolina A&T on Sept. 5, with a trip to Kennesaw State the following week.
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We all know the real reason this was cancelled, GT doesn’t want to play at a GO5 school, no P4 schools suddenly want to anymore.
G5 Schools are afraid that there will be more visiting fans from P4 Schools plus G5 have smaller capacity at their campus stadiums.
It´s not that Georgia Tech didn´t want to, they would just rather play Tennessee and it might even be good for Georgia State because getting that million dollars is very helpful in this day and age of NIL and portal where G5 schools like them need every last penny.
Dan, you´re also completely wrong. Hosting a P4 team is every G5 school´s dream. It´s the P4 schools that are choosing not to play the game. They also don´t care about what fans from each team show up, if they did, no school would ever play BYU at home because a lot of the time half the stadium or more is blue.
Thank you very much BYUfan to help me understand pardon me for getting little confused occasionally however I always remain positive.
I am very optimistic that Georgia-Georgia Tech will continue to play on Thanksgiving weekend when SEC goes to nine game conference schedule which I am still pulling for.
The potential for Georgia-Georgia Tech and other SEC-ACC rivalries to not be played is why I don´t want the SEC to have a nine game conference schedule.
Not concerned at all & very open for Georgia who would they play on Thanksgiving weekend & would welcome Bulldogs to play various opponents which Oklahoma State & Syracuse do.
Hope you do mind me being SEC nine game supporter plus I respect your comments BYUfan.
Dan what’s your thing about thanksgiving weekend? Is it a fetish of yours on who plays that weekend? Bet you want Ohio st and Michigan to play on CBS don’t you?
USC and Stanford continued to play Notre Dame when the Pac-12 went to 9 games. I don’t see how the SEC/ACC rivalries will stop if/when the SEC goes to a 9-game schedule.
I am telling you for second time Illninoles97 games Dan really care for on thanksgiving weekend are
Michigan-Ohio State
Northwestern-Illinois
Arizona State-Arizona
Georgia-Georgia Tech
& that it
I do not care who Oklahoma State plays on Thanksgiving weekend.
I do not care who Syracuse plays on Thanksgiving weekend.
I do not care who Northern Illinois plays on Thanksgiving weekend.
I do not care who Bowling Green plays on Thanksgiving weekend.
All I want to do is have fun cheer on Teams that I enjoy watching on any given Saturday during Fall.
I have full respect of both My Michigan Wolverines & rival Ohio State Buckeyes that they want to play at High Noon & FOX televising Michigan-Ohio State which network really likes.
I am very flexible with CBS in which Big Ten game will be shown on Thanksgiving weekend on Black Friday & Saturday 3:30PM.
Evan I am confident that Georgia-Georgia Tech will continue to play on Thanksgiving weekend when SEC goes to a 9-game schedule which I am fully favor of.
USC still has an opening that date. :)
Too soon, USC only adds non-conference games last minute.
I’m saying SoCarolina vs Georgia State could happen, Okay for you?
@Keeper
Can very much happen, but I wouldn’t be surprised if SoCalifornia hit up Georgia State before SoCarolina.
Dad to see happen but at least I hope the check cleared for the $1 million payout. It pretty much paid for the FCS home game with a little extra left over
That is why G5 have to get the P4 to agree to home games for the first game of the series, because then there is more on the line for P4, more often then not when P4 hosts first they will buy out the rest of the contract. To me its fraud as the school has no intention to fulfill that contract when they sign it.
We seem to be moving in a direction where the buyouts for the return game need to be significantly more punitive than they have been once the first game has been played.
$1m is nice but GSU was likely expecting their biggest home gate ever. Now they’ll probably have to schedule a road game to make that much money
Georgia State vs USC 2026 watch it happen.
Given that Jim Phillips said a few years ago that he didn’t want his ACC members to pay visits to mid-major programs in football, I’m not shocked by this move at all. That sucks for Georgia State because it would’ve had a gargantuan gate with all those Georgia Tech fans trying to get in.