favorite bowl memory?

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we are TWO WEEKS AWAY from the Yellow Jackets 47th bowl game. Tech has a 26-20 record all time in bowl games. The Jackets' 47 appearances is tied with Auburn for 15th all time. Tech has played in five of the six current NY6 bowls (the Fiesta is the only one we haven't appeared in).

This is also the EIGHTH decade in a row that the Yellow Jackets have played a bowl game in. (you could argue tenth as the 1940 Orange Bowl was for the 1939 season)

So what's your favorite GT bowl memory? I'm young so I never saw the very very best of our bowl triumphs but I've seen some that are enjoyable.

2014 Orange Bowl was super fun. Wasn't there in person but watched from home with my family and some family friends. CPJ's crowning moment.

2016 Gator/TaxSlayer is a special memory for me because while most of our fans were in Jacksonville, I was at the GT-UNC basketball game watching shootyhoops upset the eventual national champions, and they kept showing the bowl highlights on the scoreboard in between timeouts to update the crowd on the score.

Last year's win in Tampa was fun, I hope we do something similar in two weeks.

share some nostalgia and memories below! :buzz:
 
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RamblinRed said:
Favorite to me was Citrus Bowl. Beautiful day, great win. Watching the ND game in a hotel ballroom that night was great until Rocket ismail's punt return was called back.

I was also at the basketball game in 2016 and that was alot of fun.
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so I wasn't the only Tech fan in McCamish that day! (with most of our crowd in Jax UNC packed the dome.)
 
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1991 Citrus Bowl, Orlando, FL, against the University of Nebraska with Dr. Tom Osborne as HC. The media darling that year was Colorado who had a loss, a tie, and another loss that was negated by a 5th down at the GL. Yet, they were ranked ahead of us, standing undefeated at 10-0-1.

We beat Nebraska handily that day and my future wife and I were there to see it. My top moment as a GT alumnus/fan and bowl moment as well.

Nebraska HC Osborne, as the only common opponent, openly stated that GT was the better team. His vote in the coach’s poll was the difference.
 
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1965 Gator Bowl.

Tech has had perhaps bigger and better bowl victories since then but I was a young impressionable kid. The air was clear, the colors looked brilliant to me, and I had not yet learned to dread things going wrong in a Tech game. The Texas Tech running back (Anderson, who later turn pro) was the pregame talk of all the pundits and everyone seemed to fear him. An unknown sophomore running back, Lenny Snow, outclassed him as Tech’s MVP for the game and stole the show. I remember little about the game except that both teams seemed explosive. Whenever I got nervous that Texas Tech was moving the ball too easily, Ga Tech came up with an interception or fumble recovery.

Final Score: Georgia Tech 31 Texas Tech 21
 
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Roasting in the upper deck of the Citrus Bowl, then seeing Shawn Jones break off the big run and William Bell spin off a defender and make one of the first end zone dives I can remember.
And afterward, watching security ruthlessly tackle Tech fans as they tried to run onto the field. We were too far away and way too hungover to try that.

No. 2. The Orange Bowl 2014. "They can't stop it, folks." Watching PJ just eviscerate Missy State's NFL defense (Chris Jones, Preston Smith, failed Falcons pick - one of many - Bernardrick McKinney) that night was a joy. Watching Missy State get absolutely tied in knots with the mid line ... just a thing of beauty.
 

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For me, it was the 2014 Orange Bowl. My wife and I had great seats for the game. After Justin Thomas and the team had a great performance against Dak Prescot and the Bulldogs, I had a great feeling about the future of GT football. We had returned to the Orange Bowl twice since the 1966 season.

The 1990 Citrus Bowl was obviously more important in terms of accomplishment with a National Championship. Regretfully we did not attend that one, but we definitely watched on TV while Brent Musburger called the game and talked about the old time History of Georgia Tech football.
 
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Citrus Bowl in 1991. Somewhere I might still have the glossy ticket showing a tall glass of juice. I remember walking back to the car and seeing a group of fans carrying a piece of one of the the goalposts. We drove home (in Florida) and got to see the end of the Orange Bowl. I cynically commented, "Okay Rocket, do what you're paid to do and score a touchdown," or something similar, and he did just that. I thought, "That block was on the side. It's legal." Obviously the ref thought otherwise and the TD came back. For once I wanted ND to win a big game and they couldn't do it. Fortunately, we got #1 in the UPI. We'll finally get that matchup with Colorado next season.
 
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Darthdad said:
Citrus Bowl in 1991. Somewhere I might still have the glossy ticket showing a tall glass of juice. I remember walking back to the car and seeing a group of fans carrying a piece of one of the the goalposts. We drove home (in Florida) and got to see the end of the Orange Bowl. I cynically commented, "Okay Rocket, do what you're paid to do and score a touchdown," or something similar, and he did just that. I thought, "That block was on the side. It's legal." Obviously the ref thought otherwise and the TD came back. For once I wanted ND to win a big game and they couldn't do it. Fortunately, we got #1 in the UPI. We'll finally get that matchup with Colorado next season.
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colorado shouldn't have gotten any votes for even punting to Rocket that late in the game. The only way they could really lose was 1) a punt block or 2) Rocket does something with the return.
And we went nuts in our hotel room when Rocket hit the gas. But I saw the flag come out and sank.
 

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Northeast Stinger said:
1965 Gator Bowl.

Tech has had perhaps bigger and better bowl victories since then but I was a young impressionable kid. The air was clear, the colors looked brilliant to me, and I had not yet learned to dread things going wrong in a Tech game. The Texas Tech running back (Anderson, who later turn pro) was the pregame talk of all the pundits and everyone seemed to fear him. An unknown sophomore running back, Lenny Snow, outclassed him as Tech’s MVP for the game and stole the show. I remember little about the game except that both teams seemed explosive. Whenever I got nervous that Texas Tech was moving the ball too easily, Ga Tech came up with an interception or fumble recovery.

Final Score: Georgia Tech 31 Texas Tech 21
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swampsting said:
Roasting in the upper deck of the Citrus Bowl, then seeing Shawn Jones break off the big run and William Bell spin off a defender and make one of the first end zone dives I can remember.
And afterward, watching security ruthlessly tackle Tech fans as they tried to run onto the field. We were too far away and way too hungover to try that.

No. 2. The Orange Bowl 2014. "They can't stop it, folks." Watching PJ just eviscerate Missy State's NFL defense (Chris Jones, Preston Smith, failed Falcons pick - one of many - Bernardrick McKinney) that night was a joy. Watching Missy State get absolutely tied in knots with the mid line ... just a thing of beauty.
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...and that was a TFG defense, too.
 

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Northeast Stinger said:
1965 Gator Bowl.

Tech has had perhaps bigger and better bowl victories since then but I was a young impressionable kid. The air was clear, the colors looked brilliant to me, and I had not yet learned to dread things going wrong in a Tech game. The Texas Tech running back (Anderson, who later turn pro) was the pregame talk of all the pundits and everyone seemed to fear him. An unknown sophomore running back, Lenny Snow, outclassed him as Tech’s MVP for the game and stole the show. I remember little about the game except that both teams seemed explosive. Whenever I got nervous that Texas Tech was moving the ball too easily, Ga Tech came up with an interception or fumble recovery.

Final Score: Georgia Tech 31 Texas Tech 21
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8 years old at the time,enjoyed my first bowl but Citrus was the best
 
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As a fan, 1991 Citrus Bowl win..... listening to it the scratchy broadcast on AFRTS Radio in my flat in London... three weeks before Desert Storm kicked off....hey - some people went to the desert, I went to London.... if it wasn't me, someone else would've been in my place... that's why they call it "Naval Intelligence."

As a player, the 1970 Sun Bowl vs Texas Tech, in spite of the utter BS Carson put us through during Finals Week.

Least favorite: Obviously the 1971 Peach/Mud Bowl vs Ole Miss.
 
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