Georgia Tech’s Big Ten/ACC Challenge game set
Georgia Tech will play at Nebraska in the Big Ten/ACC Challenge, a person familiar with the decision confirmed to the AJC on Thursday evening. The game had been reported first by CBS Sports reporter Jon Rothstein.
The game, to be played Dec. 9 in Lincoln, Neb., will be a rematch after the two teams met last year at McCamish Pavilion as part of the challenge event between the ACC and Big Ten. The Yellow Jackets won 73-56 in December in the teams' second-ever meeting. Coach Josh Pastner is 2-2 in the event, winning the two home games and losing the two on the road. Tech is 8-11 all-time in the challenge.
The game was the last remaining open date in Tech’s expected non-conference schedule, a slate of seven games to go with the ACC’s 20-game schedule. Pastner has not definitively ruled out playing Georgia in the coming season, but having a full 27-game schedule (barring the ACC creating a league schedule in which teams play fewer than 20 games) renders a Tech-UGA game even less likely.
The Jackets and Bulldogs have met every year dating to 1925.
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Ken Sugiura is a sports columnist at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Formerly the Georgia Tech beat reporter, Sugiura started at the AJC in 1998 and has covered a variety of beats, mostly within sports.
