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Where to watch Georgia Tech vs Vanderbilt on TV and stream online: Birmingham Bowl
The Yellow Jackets head to their 47th bowl game and as the favorites against a Commodores side who finished 6-6.
Protective stadium plays host to the 18th edition of the Birmingham Bowl in which 2014 winners, the Vanderbilt Commodores will scrap it out against the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets - one of their main college rivals.
For the Yellow Jackets, this will be their 47th appearance in a bowl game. Brent Key’s men head into this one with a 26-20-0 record and aiming for back-to-back bowl wins after clinching the Gasparilla Bowl last year.
Tech finished the regular season 7-5, sixth in the ACC. Key’s team were pretty consistent throughout but ended the campaign being edged 42-40 by the Georgia Bulldogs in a game that went to an eye-watering eight overtimes - a NCAA record.
As for the Commodores, they finished 6-6 in the the Southeastern Conference, way down the order in 12th. It was a disappointing finish for Clark Lea’s team, who lost their last three games to South Carolina, LSU and Tennessee.
When is the 2024 Birmingham Bowl?
The 2024 Birmingham Bowl between the Vanderbilt Commodores and the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets will take place at Protective Stadium in Birmingham, Alabama on Friday 27 December 2024 and is scheduled to kick off at 3:30 p.m. ET / 1:30 p.m. PT.
The game will air live on ESPN. Viewers in the United States will be able to stream ESPN’s coverage on Fubo (free trial available).
Form guide: Georgia Tech at Vanderbilt
Let’s have a look at the most recent games for these two teams:
Georgia Tech
- Georgia Tech 31-13 Notre Dame: W
- Virginia Tech 21-6 Georgia Tech: L
- Georgia Tech 28-23 Miami: W
- Georgia Tech 30-29 NCST: W
- UGA 44-42 Georgia Tech: L
Vanderbilt
- Vanderbilt 24-27 Texas: L
- Auburn 7-17 Vanderbilt : W
- Vanderbilt 7-28 South Carolina: L
- LSU 24-17 Vanderbilt: L
- Vanderbilt 23-36 Tennessee: L
The 2024-25 college football bowl season continues with another 32 games left to play, concluding with the College Football Playoff National Championship Game at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta, Georgia on 20th January 2025.
Some bowl games have changed venue this year - for example the Holiday Bowl has moved from Petco Park to Snapdragon Stadium while the Cure Bowl will take place at Camping World Stadium and not at FBC Mortgage Stadium.
In other new developments, the Guaranteed Rate Bowl has been renamed and is now known simply as the Rate Bowl.