| Year: | 1981 |
| Team: | Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets |
| Sport: | football |
| Conference: | Independent |
| Record: | 1–10 |
| Head Coach: | Bill Curry |
| Hc Year: | 2nd |
| Off Coach: | Rip Scherer |
| Oc Year: | 1st |
| Def Coach: | Ken Blair |
| Dc Year: | 2nd |
| Captain: | Dave Lutz Lance Skelton Mark Bradley Ken Carney |
| Stadium: | Grant Field |
The 1981 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team represented the Georgia Institute of Technology during the 1981 NCAA Division I-A football season. The Yellow Jackets were led by second-year head coach Bill Curry, and played their home games at Grant Field in Atlanta. Georgia Tech produced abysmal results for the second consecutive year under Curry, finishing with a record of 1–10, their worst season in terms of winning percentage in school history (it would later be matched by another 1–10 season in 1994). Their sole win was a season-opening upset victory over the second-ranked Alabama Crimson Tide in Birmingham.