ATLANTA -- Georgia Tech will be without All-ACC running back Joe Burns for the Seattle Bowl.

Burns has flunked out of school and will not play in the Dec. 27 bowl game, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported on Thursday. The school announced Thursday that Burns is academically ineligible and will not accompany the team to the Pacific Northwest.

"I'm disappointed in Joe because it was his responsibility to do what he was supposed to do and he didn't," interim coach Mac McWhorter told the newspaper. "The reality is Joe doesn't have anybody to blame but himself. Hopefully, he'll learn from it."

Burns, a red-shirt junior, rushed for 1,165 yards this season. Senior Sean Gregory will assume Burns' starting tailback position.

It has not been a good month for the Yellow Jackets. The school was stunned by the sudden resignation of former coach George O'Leary, who left to take the Notre Dame job on Dec. 9. O'Leary then resigned from the Irish five days later after it was discovered he lied about his academic and athletic credentials.

Following Wednesday's practice, McWhorter told the Journal-Constitution the matter stemmed from a paper that Burns had turned in, but to the wrong place.

Burns sat out Tuesday's practice as coaches and administrators tried to clear things up, but participated in Wednesday's practice.

"We thought it was a situation we'd rectified," McWhorter told the newspaper. "Everything did not work out."