What conference did William Alexander "Bill" Curry's team join after their last year as competing as football independents?
1982 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team 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, Georgia. It was their last year competing as football independents before joining the Atlantic Coast Conference in 1983.
List of independent southern football champions This is a list of yearly claims to an Independent Southern football championship from 1889 to 1932 (those not in the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association from 1895-1921, those not in the South Atlantic Intercollegiate Athletic Association from 1912-1921, and those not in the Southern Conference from 1922-1932), prior to the creation of the Southeastern Conference in 1933.