Overview

• Friday night's game is the first-ever on-field meeting between the Buffaloes and Yellow Jackets.
• Georgia Tech coach Brent Key billed the trip to Boulder as an opportunity to "settle the 1990 national championship."
• In 1990, Colorado won the Associated Press poll while Georgia Tech topped the coaches' ballot, creating co-champions in the pre-playoff system.
• The controversy lingers over Colorado's fifth-down win at Missouri and a 10-9 Orange Bowl clinched by Deon Figures' late interception against Notre Dame.
• Figures, who underwent a liver transplant in 2023, plans to watch from home as the now 12-team College Football Playoff reflects reforms that Colorado alumni say would have decided 1990 on the field.