The Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets and Tennessee Volunteers have scheduled a home-and-home football series for the 2026 and 2027 seasons, the schools announced Wednesday.
In the first game of the series, Georgia Tech will host Tennessee on Sept. 12, 2026, at Bobby Dodd Stadium at Hyundai Field in Atlanta and venture to Knoxville’s Neyland Stadium to battle the Vols on Sept. 11, 2027., which will conclude the two-game series.
“As we continue to invest in and elevate Georgia Tech football, securing elite-level competition is a critical component,” Georgia Tech vice president/director of athletics J Batt said. “We’re thrilled to renew our rivalry with Tennessee and look forward to the matchups in Atlanta and Knoxville. I’m confident that our passionate Tech fans will embrace this series!”
The teams have played 44 times in their respective histories, but just once in the last 38 years. That contest, a 42-41, double-overtime Tennessee victory, took place at Atlanta’s Mercedes-Benz Stadium on Sept. 4, 2017.
Georgia Tech has a complete non-league slate for the 2026 and 2027 campaigns. The 2026 game with Tennessee replaces a Sept. 19 tilt with Georgia State, which has been canceled. The Ramblin’ Wreck’s 2026 non-league opponents include home dates with Colorado (Sept. 5) and Mercer (Sept. 26) and Clean, Old-Fashioned Hate at Georgia’s Sanford Stadium on Nov. 28. The 2027 docket includes home dates with Arkansas State (Sept. 4) and Georgia (Nov. 27), with an Oct. 2 date at Notre Dame rounding out the grouping.
Tennessee has a Sept. 5, 2026, date with Furman at Neyland Stadium, along with a just-announced Sept. 19 date with Kennesaw State, with a Sept. 18, 2027, visit from Western Michigan on the docket.
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In 2027, Georgia Tech plays ND, Tennessee, FSU and Miami, in addition to Georgia. Pretty impressive.
Georgia-Georgia Tech is My favorite along with Michigan-Ohio State, Northwestern-Illinois & Arizona State-Arizona that play on Thanksgiving weekend.
Bring on Georgia Tech and Tennessee football game.
Even this Georgia Bulldogs Fan likes idea.
Great for Tennessee. This is a massive upgrade over Nebraska.
I support Nebraska having desire not to play Tennessee & I really like Cornhuskers having two MAC teams & FCS Missouri Valley team for OOC opponents in 2026.
Good dumb downs for a once storied program.
Dave Nebraska will resurrect one of these days.
Wow! Tennessee will actually play a OOC true road game in 2026. That so seldom happens with SEC teams. Thank goodness they still have an FCS team on the schedule.
Fan of cupcake games Klutchpike.
So seldom? I wouldn’t say that.
To Kevin Kelly I like cupcake games more than ever now with extended travel in conference games.
Wait, What, Hold the Phone.
Georgia Tech is scheduling 3 Out of Conference in 2026 and 2027 against not just some Power 4 Conference but they a playing 4 of those six games against teams that made the playoff in the 2024 season! In an era where many schools play one of our conference Power 4 team and a few play zero (Indiana in 2024, Michigan in 2023) Georgia Tech will play 3. They often have played two feeling the need to play Georgia and another Power 4 Conference team.
Hats off to Georgia Tech and Georgia in 2027 is also playing 3 ACC teams Out of Conference.
As a Georgia Bulldogs Fan, I like them playing three power 4 OOC games in 2027 although I prefer cupcake games like Kennesaw State & Chattanooga which have increase My interest since realignment.
Right now my big focus is SEC going to 9-game conference schedule which I fully favor of.