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Vanderbilt is going bowling for the first time since 2018.
On Sunday, the Commodores accepted an invite to play Georgia Tech in the Birmingham Bowl on Dec. 27. The game is scheduled to kick off at 3:30 p.m. ET from Protective Stadium in Birmingham, Alabama. ESPN will carry the broadcast.
The Dores are Birmingham bound! pic.twitter.com/Lkm3jCfy2L
— Vanderbilt Football (@VandyFootball) December 8, 2024
The Dores are looking for their first postseason victory since the 2013 campaign when Jordan Matthews earned MVP honors in a bowl win over Houston.
This will be the school’s 10th bowl game all-time. Vandy is 4-4-1 in its previous 9 appearances. With the return to the Birmingham Bowl, Vanderbilt will have played six of its 10 bowl games in Alabama or Tennessee.
Vanderbilt and Georgia Tech have met 38 times with the Yellow Jackets holding a 20-15-3 edge in the series. Tech won the last meeting, 38-7, in Atlanta in 2016. They have never played each other in the postseason before.
Vandy is limping into the postseason. It lost to Texas at home by 3 points on Oct. 26, beat Auburn on the road 17-7 on Nov. 2, and then closed out the season with 3 consecutive defeats.
Georgia Tech will enter the game with a 7-5 record. The Yellow Jackets went 5-3 against the ACC this season. Notably, they beat Miami at home on Nov. 9 to hand the Hurricanes their first loss of the season. They also played Georgia to a 2-point, 8-overtime loss in Athens on Nov. 29.
At DraftKings, Georgia Tech is a 2.5-point favorite in the game.
Derek Peterson does a bit of everything, not unlike Taysom Hill. He has covered Oklahoma, Nebraska, the Pac-12, and now delivers CFB-wide content.
