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.
Columbia Football League The Columbia Football League was a short-lived NAIA intercollegiate athletic football conference that existed during the 1985 and 1986 seasons and was composed of member schools from the states of Oregon and Washington. The league's teams were divided into two divisions based on geography, the North and South Divisions. The league dissolved after the 1986 season and its membership became the Mount Hood Division of the newly formed and similarly-named Columbia Football Association.