How to watch Georgia Tech vs. North Carolina: TV channel, NCAA Football live stream info, start time

How to watch Georgia Tech vs. North Carolina football game

By Scout Staff

Sep 28, 2021 at 2:40 pm ET • 2 min read

Who's Playing

No. 21 North Carolina @ Georgia Tech

Current Records: North Carolina 2-1; Georgia Tech 1-2

What to Know

Considering their sizeable disadvantage in the spread, the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets can expect to have a real challenge on their hands Saturday. Georgia Tech and the North Carolina Tar Heels will face off in an ACC battle at 7:30 p.m. ET at Mercedes-Benz Stadium. UNC will be strutting in after a victory while the Yellow Jackets will be stumbling in from a defeat.

Georgia Tech didn't finish too far behind, but the squad still lost 14-8 to the Clemson Tigers last week. One thing holding Georgia Tech back was the mediocre play of QB Jordan Yates, who did not have his best game: besides failing to produce a single touchdown, he fumbled the ball once.

Meanwhile, while not quite a landslide, the game between UNC and the Virginia Cavaliers last week was still a pretty decisive one as the Tar Heels wrapped it up with a 59-39 win at home. QB Sam Howell was a one-man wrecking crew for UNC, passing for five TDs and 307 yards on 21 attempts in addition to picking up 112 yards on the ground. Howell's 75-yard touchdown toss to WR Khafre Brown in the first quarter made for one of the most memorable moments of the night.

The Yellow Jackets are now 1-2 while UNC sits at a mirror-image 2-1. Two defensive stats to keep an eye on: Georgia Tech is stumbling into the matchup with the 145th most rushing yards allowed per game in the nation, having given up 161.3 on average. UNC has experienced some struggles of their own as they are 194th worst in the nation in passing yards allowed per game, with 270.7 on average. It's possible one of these Achilles' heels will wind up tripping the losing team up.