1986 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team

1986 Atlantic Coast Conference football standings
	$ – Conference champion; Rankings from AP Poll

1986 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football
1986 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football
Conference	Atlantic Coast Conference
1986 record	5–5–1 (3–3 ACC)
Head coach	Bill Curry (7th season);
Defensive coordinator	(3rd season)
Captain	Cory Collier ; Kyle Ambrose ; Bart Jones
Home stadium	Grant Field ; (Capacity: 46,000)
	Seasons ← 1985 1987 →

The 1986 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team represented the Georgia Institute of Technology during the 1987 NCAA Division I-A football season. The Yellow Jackets were led by head coach Bill Curry, in his seventh and final year with the team, and played their home games at Grant Field in Atlanta. The team competed as members of the Atlantic Coast Conference, finishing in fourth.

Schedule[]

Date	Opponent	Site	TV	Result	Attendance
September 13	Furman*	Grant Field Atlanta		T 17–17	33,352
September 20	at Virginia	Scott Stadium Charlottesville, Virginia		W 28–14	34,800
September 27	Clemson	Grant Field Atlanta (rivalry)	Raycom	L 3–27	46,062
October 4	at North Carolina	Kenan Memorial Stadium Chapel Hill, North Carolina		L 20–21	50,000
October 11	No. 17 NC State	Grant Field Atlanta	Raycom	W 59–21	24,110
October 18	at No. 7 Auburn*	Jordan–Hare Stadium Auburn, Alabama (rivalry)		L 10–31	72,500
October 25	Tennessee*	Grant Field Atlanta (rivalry)	TBS	W 14–13	28,432
November 1	Duke	Grant Field Atlanta		W 34–6	37,102
November 8	VMI*	Grant Field Atlanta		W 52–6	23,542
November 22	at Wake Forest	Groves Stadium Winston-Salem, North Carolina	Raycom	L 21–24	17,300
November 29	at No. 18 Georgia*	Sanford Stadium Athens, Georgia (Clean, Old-Fashioned Hate)	TBS	L 24–31	82,122
*Non-conference game Homecoming Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game

Sources:^[1]^[2]

References[]

^ "1986 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets Schedule and Results". Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved June 14, 2017.
^ 2011 Georgia Tech Media Guide. p. 174

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[1] "1986 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets Schedule and Results". Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved June 14, 2017.

[2] 2011 Georgia Tech Media Guide. p. 174

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v t Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football
Venues	Piedmont Park (1899–1901; 1903–1904) Brisbane Park (1902) The Flats (1905–1906, 1912) Ponce de Leon Park (1907–1911) Grant Field (1913–1987) Bobby Dodd Stadium at Historic Grant Field (1988–present)
Bowls & rivalries	Bowl games Auburn Clemson Georgia: Clean, Old-Fashioned Hate Tennessee Vanderbilt Virginia Tech
Culture & lore	Buzz Ramblin' Wreck "Ramblin' Wreck from Georgia Tech" "Up with the White and Gold" Marching band Heisman shift 1916 Cumberland game 1990 game at Virginia
People	Head coaches Starting quarterbacks NFL draftees Statistical leaders
Seasons	1892 1893 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021
National championship seasons in bold

1986 Atlantic Coast Conference football standings
v t	Conf					Overall
Team	W		L		T	W		L		T
No. 17 Clemson $	5	–	1	–	1	8	–	2	–	2
NC State	5	–	2	–	0	8	–	3	–	1
North Carolina	5	–	2	–	0	7	–	4	–	1
Georgia Tech	3	–	3	–	0	5	–	5	–	1
Maryland	2	–	3	–	1	5	–	5	–	1
Wake Forest	2	–	5	–	0	5	–	6	–	0
Duke	2	–	5	–	0	4	–	7	–	0
Virginia	2	–	5	–	0	3	–	8	–	0

$ – Conference champion Rankings from AP Poll