ATLANTA – It is game day at Bobby Dodd Stadium where Clemson battles Georgia Tech as they get league play underway.

The Tigers look to start a run to another ACC championship and the College Football Playoff.

Location: Bobby Dodd Stadium

Kickoff: Noon

Television: ESPN

Announcers: Kris Budden, Louis Riddick, Bob Wischusen

2025 Record: Clemson 1-1,  Georgia Tech 2-0

ACC Record: Clemson 0-0, Georgia Tech 0-0

Series History: Clemson trails series 36-51-2

Last Meeting:  Clemson defeated Georgia Tech 42-21 on November 11, 2023

After opening the 2025 season with back-to-back non-conference home games, No. 12/11 Clemson will open both its conference slate and its road slate on Saturday, Sept. 13 when the Tigers face the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets. Kickoff at Bobby Dodd Stadium at Hyundai Field in Atlanta is set for noon ET on ESPN.

The game will be the 90th meeting between the two programs dating to their first meeting in 1898, Clemson’s third year of football. Amid changes to the ACC scheduling model, Clemson and Georgia Tech did not face one another last year, ending a streak of 41 consecutive years in which the two programs had squared off.

Clemson enters the game on a nine-game winning streak in its series with Georgia Tech. With a win on Saturday, Clemson would produce its ninth all-time winning streak of 10 or more games against a single opponent.

WHAT TO WATCH FOR THIS WEEK

– Clemson and Georgia Tech facing one another for the 42nd of the last 43 years. By virtue of the ACC adopting a divisionless format with altered protected rivalries in 2024, last season marked the first year since 1982 that
Clemson and Georgia Tech did not face one another.

– Clemson attempting to earn its 37th all-time victory against Georgia Tech. Georgia Tech is one of eight schools against whom Clemson has earned at least 35 all-time victories (South Carolina, Wake Forest, NC State, Furman, Virginia, North Carolina, Duke and Georgia Tech).

– Clemson attempting to win its 10th consecutive game against Georgia Tech, dating to a 43-24 home win in 2015. It would extend Clemson’s longest winning streak in the all-time series.

– Clemson attempting to produce its ninth all-time winning streak of 10 or more games against a single opponent.

• Clemson attempting to improve to 46-26-1 in conference openers since joining the ACC.
• Clemson opening ACC play against Georgia Tech for
  the 15th time all-time. Georgia Tech will tie Virginia (15)
  as Clemson’s most common opponent in ACC openers
  all-time.
• Clemson attempting to improve to 13-2 in ACC
  openers against Georgia Tech. Clemson has won its last
  five conference openers against the Yellow Jackets in
  qualifying meetings in 2016, 2018, 2019, 2021 and
  2022.
• Clemson attempting to improve to 142-19 against
  AP-unranked teams under Dabo Swinney and improve
  to 119-9 in those games since the start of the 2012
  season.

CLEMSON IN ACC OPENERS

The 2025 campaign marks Clemson’s 73rd season of membership in the ACC, dating back to the conference’s first year of play in 1953. In its previous
72 seasons of ACC membership, Clemson has posted a 45-26-1 record in conference openers.

Clemson has won nine of its last 10 ACC openers. Clemson’s eight-year winning streak in conference openers from 2015-22 was Clemson’s longest such streak in school history. Head Coach Dabo Swinney is 11-5 in ACC openers at Clemson, with four of the five losses coming on the road.

Clemson’s ACC openers have disproportionately been played on the road in recent years. Including this year, 11 of Clemson’s 14 conference openers will have been played away from Memorial Stadium.

WITH THE WIN

– Clemson improved to 3-0 all-time against Troy.

– Though Clemson is now 3-0 in its all-time series with Troy, Clemson has had to overcome halftime deficits in two of the three victories. Clemson’s eventual ACC title team overcame a 16-13 halftime deficit for a 43-19
win in the teams’ first meeting in 2011, and Clemson’s eventual national championship team held off Troy by one score in a 30-24 win in 2016.

– Clemson improved to 13-0 all-time against Sun Belt Conference teams.- Clemson improved to 31-1 against opponents from outside power conferences in Head Coach Dabo Swinney’s tenure.

TCI Predictions 

Robert – Clemson 20, Georgia Tech 24

Will – Clemson 23, Georgia Tech 21

JP – Clemson 23, Georgia Tech 16