Georgia Tech vs NC State: Yellow Jackets Close as 8.5 Point Favorites as Kickoff Nears

Can the Yellow Jackets close out their home slate with a win vs NC State?

Nov 9, 2024; Atlanta, Georgia, USA; Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets quarterback Haynes King (10) runs for a touchdown against the Miami Hurricanes in the fourth quarter at Bobby Dodd Stadium at Hyundai Field. Mandatory Credit: Brett Davis-Imagn Images / Brett Davis-Imagn Images

Kickoff is getting closer in Atlanta for Georgia Tech's final home game of the year. The Yellow Jackets are hosting NC State and hoping to get a win to close out their home slate and move to 7-4 heading into their big rivalry matchup with Georgia next Friday in Athens. Georgia Tech has been favored in this game all week long and that is not changing as kickoff gets closer. At Fanduel Sportsbook, Georgia Tech is closing as an 8.5-point favorite vs the Wolfpack and the total is at 50.5.

So what is at stake for the Yellow Jackets tonight? A lot more than you might think.

• With a win, the Jackets would also become only the third Tech team to go undefeated and untied at Bobby Dodd Stadium since 1966, joining the 1990 national championship team that went 6-0 at home and the 1999 squad that went 6-0 at Bobby Dodd during current head coach Brent Key's junior season. '

• Georgia Tech (6-4, 4-3 ACC) is also looking to clinch a winning overall record for the second season in a row. The Yellow Jackets have not finished above .500 in back-to-back seasons since 2013 and 2014.

• A win would also secure a 5-3 final record in Atlantic Coast Conference play for the second-straight season

• Georgia Tech would move its record up it to 7-4 overall, which would be its most regular-
  season wins since 2018 and tied for its second-most in the last 10 seasons (7 in 2018 and 8 in 2016); clinch an above-.500 season, which would give it back-to-back winning seasons for the first time since 2013 (7-6) and 2014 (11-3).

• A win would finalize a 5-3 record in ACC play, which would give it back-to-back winning records in conference action for the first time since 2013 (5-3) and 2014 (6-2).

• A win would close out a perfect 5-0 campaign at Bobby Dodd Stadium
  at Hyundai Field, which would be the Yellow Jackets 16th
  undefeated, untied season all-time at Bobby Dodd since it
  opened in 1913, only their third since 1966 and their first
  since 1999.

• A win would move to 18-22 in regular-season Thursday night games
  since Tech began ACC play in 1983.

• A win would move Georgia Tech to 16-13 in Thursday night home games since joining the ACC in 1983.

• A win would move Georgia Tech up it to 21-11 all-time versus NC State;
  be its fourth win in its last five games and 14th win in its
  last 18 matchups with the Wolfpack.

• A win would move Georgia Tech up to 12-4 all-time at home against NC State.

So who wins tonight? Here are the score predictions from the staff here at Georgia Tech On SI.

Jackson Caudell (Publisher and lead Editor), 7-3 record this year: Georgia Tech 31, NC State 21

Najeh Wilkins (Writer), 6-4 record this year- 31-17 Georgia Tech

Arvon Bacon (Writer), 7-3 record this year: 25-17 Georgia Tech

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