1986 Peach Bowl several years, then reentered school and graduated from Virginia Tech in 1994 with a degree. Virginia Tech would go on to join the Atlantic Coast Conference, which NC State was a member of, in 2004. The ACC has had an automatic tie-in with the Peach Bowl (later renamed the Chick-Fil-A Bowl) every year since the 1992 Peach Bowl. 1986 Peach Bowl The 1986 Peach Bowl was a post-season American college football bowl game at Fulton County Stadium in Atlanta, Georgia between the Virginia Tech Hokies and the North Carolina State Wolfpack from on December 31, 1986. The game was the
The Peach Orchard road." The orchard drains southward into Rose Run, through Rose Woods, to Plum Run; and the orchard tract has a modern north-south embankment along the Emmitsburg road to the west of which a drainage depression separates the orchard from Warfield Ridge. By 1858 on the southeast corner of the crossroads, the Peach Orchard had been planted by Reverend Joseph Sherfy, who had a homestead to the north on the opposite (west) side of the Emmitsburg Road. On the Battle of Gettysburg, Second Day, the "Peach Orchard Salient" military position of the Army of the Potomac had been established from the