Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets The Yellow Jackets is the name used for all of the intercollegiate athletic teams that play for the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta , Georgia , United States . The teams have also been nicknamed the Ramblin ' Wreck , Engineers , Blacksmiths and Golden Tornado . There are 8 men ' s and 7 women ' s teams that compete in the NCAA Division I athletics and the Football Bowl Subdivision . Georgia Tech is a member of the Coastal Division in the Atlantic Coast Conference . The official school colors for Georgia Tech are old gold and white . Navy blue is often used as a secondary color and for alternate jersey s while black has been used on rare occasion . The traditional rival in all sports is in - state University of Georgia . This rivalry is often referred to as Clean , Old - Fashioned Hate . There are also rivalries with out - of - state Auburn and official conference rival Clemson . The athletic department is run by the Georgia Tech Athletic Association , a private organization located on campus . The department dedicates about $ 53 million per year to its sports teams and facilities . Since 2005 , the athletic director of Georgia Tech has been Dan Radakovich . Most athletic teams have on - campus facilities for competition , including Bobby Dodd Stadium at Historic Grant Field for football , the McCamish Pavilion at Cremins ' Court for men ’ s and women ’ s basketball , and Russ Chandler Stadium for baseball . Georgia Tech was a founding member of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association in 1895 . Georgia Tech was one of the 14 schools that split to found the Southern Conference in 1921 . Thirteen schools including Georgia Tech split in 1932 to form the Southeastern Conference . The Yellow Jackets left the SEC in 1964 and remained independent until becoming a founding member of the Metro - 6 Conference in 1975 . Georgia Tech moved to the ACC in 1978 and began competition within the ACC in 1979 . Football . The football team is traditionally the most popular at the Institute . The games are played at Bobby Dodd Stadium at Historic Grant Field or simply " The Flats " , which is the oldest on - campus stadium in Division I FBS football . The stadium was expanded in recent years , increasing the maximum capacity to 55 , 000 . Georgia Tech plays an Atlantic Coast Conference Coastal Division schedule in addition to yearly cross divisional games against Clemson and two other Atlantic Division teams . In addition , the team has a yearly out - of - conference meeting with Georgia at the end of the season known as Clean , Old - Fashioned Hate . The football team is in the top 20 winningest Division I - A programs and was the first team to win all four of the historical big four bowls - the Rose ( 1929 ) , Orange ( 1940 ) , Sugar ( 1944 ) , and Cotton ( 1955 ) . Georgia Tech has won four national titles in the years 1917 going 9 - 0 under John Heisman outscoring opponents 419 - 17 , 1928 going 10 - 0 under William Alexander outscoring opponents 221 - 47 , 1952 going 12 - 0 under Bobby Dodd outscoring opponents 325 - 59 , and 1990 going 11 - 0 - 1 under Bobby Ross outscoring opponents 379 - 186 . The Yellow Jackets have won a total of 15 conference titles . They won 5 SIAA titles in 1916 , 1917 , 1918 , 1920 , and 1921 ; 3 Southern Conference titles in 1922 , 1927 , and 1928 ; 5 SEC titles in 1939 , 1943 , 1944 , 1951 , 1952 , and the 1990 and 1998 ACC championships along with the 2006 ACC Coastal Division Championship . Paul Johnson and Georgia Tech won the 2009 ACC Championship in Tampa Florida which was later vacated because a player accepted $ 75 dollars worth of free clothes . The team has played in 35 bowl games , posting a record of 22 - 13 . The resulting win percentage of 0 . 629 is currently the second - highest among teams with over 20 bowl appearances . The most recent head coach is former Dallas Cowboys head coach Chan Gailey . In five seasons , Chan Gailey posted a 37 - 27 record , 5 straight bowl berths , and a 2 - 3 record in bowl games . Chan ' s 5 straight bowl appearances have the Jackets at 10 in a row overall , an active streak tied for 5th longest in the nation . Chan Gailey was fired on Monday , November 26 , 2007 . A nation - wide search for a new head coach then began , which was ended when highly - regarded Navy coach Paul Johnson was hired on December 9 , 2007 . Three Jacket players were named to the ACC 50th Anniversary Team in 2002 : Marco Coleman , OLB ; Joe Hamilton , QB ; and Ken Swilling , DB . Some notable and more recent Georgia Tech football players are three - time All - American Calvin Johnson , Keith Brooking , Joe Burns , Marco Coleman , Joe Hamilton , Tony Hollings , Dorsey Levens , and Arizona Cardinals head coach Ken Whisenhunt . Three Atlantic Coast Conference Players of the Year hailed from Georgia Tech . They were Joe Hamilton ( 1999 ) , Calvin Johnson ( 2006 ) , and Jonathan Dwyer ( 2008 ) . Men ' s basketball . The Georgia Tech men ' s basketball team plays its home games in the new McCamish Pavilion The program saw its most sustained success under the tenure of Bobby Cremins . Bobby Cremins led his team to the first ACC tournament victory in school history in 1985 , and in 1990 he took Georgia Tech to the school ' s first Final Four appearance ever . Cremins retired from Georgia Tech in 2000 with the school ' s best coaching win percentage . The current head coach of Georgia Tech is Brian Gregory . Up until March 2011 , Paul Hewitt was the head coach Georgia Tech . Helping revitalize a stagnant program in 2004 , he led Georgia Tech to a Cinderella season as the school earned its second berth in a NCAA national title game in any sport . That team won the Pre - Season NIT , ended Duke ' s 41 game home winning streak , and finished its season losing by 9 points in the national title game to Connecticut . Hewitt was fired on March 12 , 2011 after having three losing seasons over the previous four years . Some notable and more recent Georgia Tech basketball players are Iman Shumpert , Derrick Favors , Anthony Morrow , Javaris Crittenton , Thaddeus Young , Stephon Marbury , Matt Harpring , Dennis Scott , Kenny Anderson , Travis Best , Chris Bosh , Jarrett Jack , Mark Price , and John Salley . Women ' s basketball . Like the men ' s team , the women ' s basketball team plays its home games in McCamish Pavilion . The current women ' s coach is MaChelle Joseph . Baseball . Baseball is a very successful sport at Georgia Tech . The baseball team makes its home at Russ Chandler Stadium and is one of the premier baseball teams in the NCAA . Georgia Tech baseball is notable for its high - scoring offenses and stout defenses . The team ' s success is guided by head coach Danny Hall . Danny Hall has coached Tech for 13 seasons and has posted 579 wins over that span . He has led Georgia Tech to 12 years of NCAA regional play and its only three College World Series appearances in 1994 , 2002 , and 2006 . The baseball team , under Hall , has become an annual contender for the ACC regular season and tournament titles winning each four and three times respectively . Some notable and more recent Georgia Tech baseball players are Kevin Brown , Nomar Garciaparra , Matt Murton , Matt Wieters , Eric Patterson , Brandon Boggs , Jay Payton , Mark Teixeira , and Jason Varitek . Jason Varitek ' s number 33 is one of two numbers retired , Coach Jim Luck ' s number 44 is the other . Softball . Georgia Tech fields a softball team under coach Sharon Perkins . In 2011 , the team won their third straight ACC Regular Season title . Also in 2011 , Sharon Perkins was named the ACC Coach of the Year ; this is her third consecutive year winning that award , the first ACC coach win it in three consecutive years . Golf . Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets men ' s golf team is one of the most consistent Yellow Jacket teams . The men ' s golf team has made the NCAA Championship round nine straight years under twelfth - year head coach Bruce Heppler . In 2005 , the program was rated by Golf Magazine as the # 1 collegiate golf program in the country . Some notable Georgia Tech golfers are David Duval , Stewart Cink , Troy Matteson , Larry Mize , Bryce Molder , and Matt Kuchar . The most famous alumnus of the golf program however remains legendary amateur Bobby Jones , winner of the Grand Slam in 1930 and the founder of Augusta National Golf Club and The Masters , a major championship hosted annually by Augusta National . Tennis . Georgia Tech has both men ' s and women ' s tennis teams . The women ' s tennis team became the first NCAA National Champion in Georgia Tech team sports history by winning 4 - 2 over UCLA in Athens , Georgia on May 22 , 2007 . The 2007 National Championship team was coached by Bryan Shelton . Women ' s tennis has won the last three consecutive ACC titles as well . The men ' s team has won six conference titles since 1918 ( one in the SIAA , two in the SoConn , and three in the SEC ) . The men ' s tennis team is currently coached by Kenny Thorne . Volleyball . Georgia Tech Women ' s Volleyball is one of the newer additions to Georgia Tech ' s athletic department , having only been started in the past twenty years . Despite the program ' s youth , it has been a dominant force in the ACC . Georgia Tech volleyball has become a powerful , perennial ACC title contender and NCAA tournament qualifier . Tech has been in the NCAA tournament three times in recent years and has set several school records for victories in a season , consecutive ACC victories , and consecutive victories . Other sports . Georgia Tech also fields men and women ' s track & field , men and women ' s swimming & diving , men and women ' s cross country , and assorted club sports . Georgia Tech ' s Angelo Taylor won gold medals in 400 m hurdles at the 2000 and 2008 Summer Olympics . The non - NCAA sanctioned club sports include but are not limited to crew , cricket , cycling , equestrian , fencing , field hockey , gymnastics , ice hockey , kayaking , lacrosse , paintball , roller hockey , rowing , rugby , sailing , skydiving , swimming , triathlon , ultimate , water polo , and wrestling . Traditions . Mascots . Costumed in plush to look like a yellow jacket , the official mascot of Georgia Tech is Buzz . Buzz enters the football games at the sound of swarming yellow jackets and proceeds to do a flip on the fifty yard line GT logo . He then bull rushes the goal post and has been known to knock it out of alignment before football games . Buzz is also notorious for crowd surfing and general light - hearted trickery amongst Tech and rival fans . The Ramblin ' Wreck was the first official mascot of Georgia Tech . It is a 1930 Ford Model A Sports Coupe . The Wreck has led the football team onto the field every home game since 1961 . The Wreck features a gold and white paint job , two gold flags emblazoned with the words " To Hell With Georgia " and " Give ' Em Hell Tech " , and a white soft top . The Wreck is maintained by the Ramblin ' Reck Club , a selective student leadership organization on campus . Spirit organizations . The Ramblin ' Reck Club is charged with upholding all school traditions and creating new traditions such as the SWARM . The SWARM is a 900 member strong spirit group seated along the north end zone or on the court at basketball games . This is the group that typically features body painting , organized chants , and general fanaticism . The marching band that performs at halftime and after big plays during the football season is clad in all white and sits next to SWARM at football games providing a dichotomy of white and gold in the North End Zone . The band is also the primary student organization on campus that upholds the tradition of RAT caps , wherein band freshman wear the traditional yellow cap at all band events . Fight songs and chants . The band plays the fight songs " Ramblin ' Wreck from Georgia Tech " and " Up With the White and Gold " after every football score and between every basketball period . At the end of a rendition of either fight song , there is a series of drum beats followed by the cheer " Go Jackets " three times ( each time followed by a second cheer of " bust their ass " ) , then a different drum beat and the cheer " Fight , Win , Drink , Get Naked ! " The official cheer only includes " Fight , Win " but most present other than the band and cheerleaders will yell the extended version . It is also tradition for the band to play the " When You Say Budweiser " after the third quarter of football and during the second - to - last official timeout of every basketball game . During the " Budweiser Song " , all of the fans in the stadium alternate bending their knees and standing up straight . Other notable band songs are Michael Jackson ' s " Thriller " for half - time at the Thrillerdome , Ludacris ' " Move Bitch " for large gains in football . Another popular chant is called the Good Word and it begins with asking , " What ' s the Good Word ? " The response from all Tech faithful is , " To Hell With Georgia . " The same question is asked three times and then the followup is asked , " How ' bout them dogs ? " And everyone yells , " Piss on ' em . " Alumni . Despite their highly technical backgrounds , Tech graduates are no strangers to athletics ; approximately 150 Tech students have gone into the NFL , with many others going into the NBA or MLB . Well - known American football athletes include former students Calvin Johnson , Daryl Smith , and Keith Brooking , former Tech head football coaches Pepper Rodgers and Bill Fulcher , and all - time greats such as Joe Hamilton , Pat Swilling , Billy Shaw , Joe Guyon , and Demaryius Thomas . Tech ' s recent entrants into the NBA include Javaris Crittenton , Thaddeus Young , Jarrett Jack , Luke Schenscher , Stephon Marbury , and Chris Bosh . Award - winning baseball stars include Kevin Brown , Mark Teixeira , Nomar Garciaparra , Jason Varitek , and Jay Payton . In golf , the legendary Bobby Jones founded The Masters , David Duval was ranked No . 1 in the world in 2001 , Stewart Cink the 2009 Open Championship winner , was ranked in the top ten , and Matt Kuchar won the U . S . Amateur .