🏈 Tech vs VMI: 36 Years in the Making

Scouting the VMI Keydets

Welcome to The Tech Way, a newsletter fueled by Student-Athlete NIL (SANIL) for Georgia Tech’s collective The Tech Way.

In today’s content:
- What was that coach? 👂
- Taking back the reins 🏈
+ So much more 💪

🏈 Football vs VMI quick game preview

🐝 Tech unveils a new tailgating experience called “Pregame- The Ultimate Tailgate

⛳ Dive into the latest #ProJackets Golf Report

🎤 COACH KEY PRESSER: WEEK 3 VS VIRGINIA MILITARY INSTITUTE (VMI)

Let’s hear from Coach Key as Tech returns to Bobby Dodd this Saturday to host the VMI Keydets in hopes of going 3-1 on the year:

  • “(He) was a Yellow Jacket to his core and a true definition of what a Tech man is” (0:34)

  • Monitoring the bye-week stretch to stay fresh and ready (5:47)

  • “I guess the bottle had a hole in the bottom of it or something” (6:20)

  • Lack of pressure and sacks so far this season (9:50)

  • “You learn the most if you allow yourself to in failure” (15:05)

🦘 SCOUTING THE OPPONENT: VMI

Yellow Jackets look to make a winning-streak comeback this weekend as they face an 0-2 Virginia Military Institute team:

  • The Keydets are currently winless this season after falling to William & Mary (41-7) and Bucknell (35-28)

  • In the Bucknell contest, DB Kouri Crump had a career-best 15.0 tackles, while RB Hunter Rice rumbled for 166 yards and two touchdowns (his 7th career multi-score game)

  • Tech and VMI are battling on the gridiron for the 16th time overall but the first time in 36 years

  • The Georgia Tech-VMI series dates back 110 years, with the first meeting between the two schools coming on Oct. 24, 1914 (a 28-7 Tech win)

🏐 September 11 // #15 Volleyball welcomes #13 Florida Gators at 7:00 pm ET on ESPN 2 (Georgia Tech Classic)

🏐 September 12 // Volleyball goes head-to-head against South Alabama at home at 7:00 pm ET on ACC Network X (Georgia Tech Classic)