GT Rivalries

Anybody who doesn't say Clemson is either way too old or way too young. Nobody else is even close. It's Clemson.

VPISU and FSU are the only other ACC schools that could be considered "rivals" in the ACC.

"But we've played Duke so many times" BFD. Just stop. Duke sucks. In no way can they be considered a rival. If you've ever been excited for the big GT-Duke rivalry game I'll call you a liar or retarded.

Auburn is no doubt our biggest yesteryear SEC rival.
Alabama and Tennessee right behind.
 
I'm not sure if we have much of a rivalry with anyone currently. VT, Duke and UNC, at least we have a chance in those games. But with the new schedule we will not be playing those teams every year. So here is to our new rivals Wake Forest and Louisville. Clemson has been an annual ass beating, but we've been closer the past two seasons. It was a fun rivalry for a few years in the early CPJ era. I can't consider teams we never play anymore much of a rivalry. Also I think you have to trade wins back and forth to be a rivalry, not much fun taking an ass whooping every year and calling it a rivalry.
 
We seem to always struggle with UNC when we have a good season cooking…1990 and 2014 come to mind immediately. And we had to suffer through a UNC-lead NCAA investigation for $300 worth of sweatpants.

We should probably hate them more than we do already, but we just beat them so often.
 
Georgia is our main rivalry. Tech just needs to start winning every now and then to make it more interesting.

Clemson is our primary non-state rival in the ACC, and no other team comes close. VPI would be my third choice, based upon the CPJ years where we fought for the Coastal title year after year.

As for Duke, yes we’ve played them seemingly forever, but as @GT flunkout stated, they are not a rival.
 
To me the biggest mistake in the grouping of teams by the ACC was dropping the GT-VT game. I know its not as old but Techmo Bowl had a feeling to it that most of our games don't have.
 
QuadF said:
Clemson only just tied Auburn as our 3rd most played team last year (86 games). I think it's a rivalry worth repairing.
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Auburn was our longest rivalry when the series ended around 1987 - longer than UGAg.
 
Clemson is 2nd biggest rival now. We may never play Aubie again cept in a bowl game maybe.
 
Given the artificial reality of today, I guess it has to be Clemson.

If all the conference consolidation nonsense going on today went away tomorrow, we would immediately return to our natural rivals and resume the >century old hostilities with Auburn and pretty sure we would be their choice as well (after Bama, of course). For those ITT who have told everyone how little they know without telling anyone how little they know, a century = 100 years which is going to shock some people who think nothing important happened before they started paying attention.

So, not unlike after WWII when entire countries were invented and added to maps, the football landscape has also been redrawn with imaginary boundaries that the fans of tomorrow will think were always that way. And the imaginary rivalries invented to support the imaginary boundaries will continue because anyone who points out how dumb and fake they are will be written off in advance as nostalgic hold-overs.

I don't pine for the day we were in the SEC but its absurd to carry on as if the natural rivalries that developed while we were a member stopped being important the minute we joined the ACC. We don't have an ACC rival in football. We just don't.
 
From the ACC, definitely Clemson. Then I'd say F$U, UNC and VT.

I do love playing Auburn and went to the game in 06' when we beat them there w/ C Johnson. That was glorious. They have great fans too. Very nice and accommodating. I still think that's why we fit most naturally with the SEC if the ACC were to break up in the future. So many natural rivalries we have in the Deep South (Bama, Aub, UT, historically in addition to UGAY).
 
You've got old guys who remember the glory days when we were beating our SEC rivals when everyone didn't have facemasks and then you have a younger generation who probably doesn't even consider us rivals with UGA since it's been so one sided in the last 40 years. Hard to say you're rivals until the opponent takes you seriously it seems.

I still consider UGA a rival but clearly the feeling isn't mutual. UGA fans seem more interested in beating anyone in the SEC over our game and seem more annoyed that the game is even on the schedule.
 
00Burdell said:
Given the artificial reality of today, I guess it has to be Clemson.

If all the conference consolidation nonsense going on today went away tomorrow, we would immediately return to our natural rivals and resume the >century old hostilities with Auburn and pretty sure we would be their choice as well (after Bama, of course). For those ITT who have told everyone how little they know without telling anyone how little they know, a century = 100 years which is going to shock some people who think nothing important happened before they started paying attention.

So, not unlike after WWII when entire countries were invented and added to maps, the football landscape has also been redrawn with imaginary boundaries that the fans of tomorrow will think were always that way. And the imaginary rivalries invented to support the imaginary boundaries will continue because anyone who points out how dumb and fake they are will be written off in advance as nostalgic hold-overs.

I don't pine for the day we were in the SEC but its absurd to carry on as if the natural rivalries that developed while we were a member stopped being important the minute we joined the ACC. We don't have an ACC rival in football. We just don't.
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Even when we were in the SEC, we played Clemson typically 5 years in each decade. And when we left the SEC they were one of the teams that stepped up to play us nearly every year, despite the fact that we kicked their ass regularly until Danny Ford arrived. If there is ever such a thing as a friendly rivalry, this game is it. It doesn't seem artificial to me.

I don't consider any other team, particularly in the ACC, as a rival (VPISU is closest, but only because my brother and nephew went there). Hell, I'd prefer having Stanford, SMU, and Cal as annual opponents before any team in North Carolina.
 
TampaBayJacket said:
I still consider UGA a rival but clearly the feeling isn't mutual. UGA fans seem more interested in beating anyone in the SEC over our game and seem more annoyed that the game is even on the schedule.
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Unfortunately, UGA doesn't view this as a real rivalry. We are just the little brother they get to beat on once a year. When we win occasionally (3 times in last 20 years), it's just viewed by UGA fans as an aberration.

Tech/UGA is kind of like somewhere between Iowa/Iowa State and ND/Navy.
 
MACHETE said:
Tech/UGA is kind of like somewhere between Iowa/Iowa State and ND/Navy.
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It's probably much closer to ND-Navy than any other rivalry in that it has been so one sided for decades. However, the similarity ends there because ND actually likes and admires Navy and credits them with saving their program in WW2 era while UGA has zero respect for us nor ever any admiration.
 
clapper said:
Even when we were in the SEC, we played Clemson typically 5 years in each decade. And when we left the SEC they were one of the teams that stepped up to play us nearly every year, despite the fact that we kicked their ass regularly until Danny Ford arrived. If there is ever such a thing as a friendly rivalry, this game is it. It doesn't seem artificial to me.

I don't consider any other team, particularly in the ACC, as a rival (VPISU is closest, but only because my brother and nephew went there). Hell, I'd prefer having Stanford, SMU, and Cal as annual opponents before any team in North Carolina.
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Between 1910 and 1966 when we left the SEC, we played Clemson about 27 times and won 25 of them. Over that same time, we played Duke 30 times and won 15. I'm not really arguing about either one but draw a distinction between rivalry and "good game". Clemson games are great but just don't have that rivalry feel to them. Duke either even tho we were only 500 against Duke - and here's a tidbit - we had a continuous losing record against Duke until we pulled even in 1963.
 
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