1982 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football
Conference	Independent
Record	6–5
Head coach	Bill Curry (3rd season)
Offensive coordinator	Dwain Painter (1st season)
Defensive coordinator	Rick Lantz (1st season)
Captain	Dave Lutz Sammy Brown Kevin Brownlee
Home stadium	Grant Field
Seasons ←  1981 1983 →

The 1982 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team represented the Georgia Institute of Technology during the 1982 NCAA Division I-A football season. The Yellow Jackets were led by third-year head coach Bill Curry, and played their home games at Grant Field in Atlanta. It was their last year competing as football independents before joining the Atlantic Coast Conference in 1983.

Schedule

Date	Time	Opponent	Site	TV	Result	Attendance	Source
September 11	12:30 p.m.	No. 4 Alabama	Grant Field Atlanta, GA ( rivalry)		L 7–45	57,126	[1]
September 18		The Citadel	Grant Field Atlanta, GA		W 36–7	24,463
September 25		at Memphis State	Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium Memphis, TN		W 24–20	15,061
October 2	1:00 p.m.	at No. 12 North Carolina	Kenan Memorial Stadium Chapel Hill, NC	ABC	L 0–41	49,500	[2] [3]
October 9		at Tulane	Louisiana Superdome New Orleans, LA		W 19–13	34,321	[4]
October 16		at Auburn	Jordan-Hare Stadium Auburn, AL ( rivalry)		L 0–24	57,000	[5]
October 23		Tennessee	Grant Field Atlanta, GA ( rivalry)	ABC	W 31–21	43,182	[6]
October 30		Duke	Grant Field Atlanta, GA		L 21–38	36,562
November 6		Virginia	Grant Field Atlanta, GA		W 38–32	22,103	[7]
November 13		at Wake Forest	Groves Stadium Winston-Salem, NC		W 45–7	19,257	[8]
November 27		at No. 1 Georgia	Sanford Stadium Athens, GA ( Clean, Old-Fashioned Hate)		L 18–38	82,122
Homecoming Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game All times are in Eastern time

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