Georgia vs. Georgia Tech — Clean, Old-Hate ranked rivalry originally appeared on The Sporting News. Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here.
The “Clean, Old-Fashioned Hate” is one of the best in college football. Georgia-Georgia Tech’s official temperament and unofficial mission statement rides on those words.
AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementFirst played in 1893, Georgia Tech’s academic-first mindset battles Georgia’s championship-first edge. In recent years, this has been a heated exchange between both squads. Brent Key's Yellow Jackets took Kirby Smart's Bulldogs to eight overtimes last year and came away on the losing end. However, it shows how bad each side wanted to win.
The rivalry’s teeth live in recruiting overlap across Georgia and Florida pipelines, defensive line leverage and schematic disruption for the region. This is an extension that goes past the Peachtree State.
Georgia consistently leaned on physical run schemes historically under Smart, while Tech carved triple-option identity decades before shifting to modern tempo under Key. The Governor’s Cup trophy, intermittently exchanged since the 1960s, symbolizes a rivalry too stubborn to die. Trust me, it's not going to either.
No. 4 Georgia meets No. 23 Tech on Friday (3:30 p.m. ET, ABC).
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