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More recently, Virginia Tech won a series record 15 straight games in the rivalry from 2004–2018 before the Cavaliers defeated the Hokies in 2019. Currently, the Hokies have won 4 straight in the series since 2020 (2022 being cancelled). Virginia and Virginia Tech were both led by College Football Hall of Fame coaches in the 1980s and 1990s.
Virginia Tech's inaugural football team in 1892. Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College (now Virginia Tech) first played football on October 21, 1892, against St. Albans Lutheran Boys School (Radford, Virginia). The game took place on a plowed off wheat field that was "about as level as a side of Brush Mountain". [8]
Virginia Tech's sports teams are called the "Hokies". The word "Hokie" originated in the "Old Hokie" spirit yell created in 1896 by O. M. Stull for a contest to select a new spirit yell when the college's name was changed from Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College (VAMC) to Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College and Polytechnic Institute (VPI) and the original spirit yell, which ...
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The Boston College football team takes its 4-2 record into Thursday night's matchup with Atlantic Coast Conference rival Virginia Tech (3-3). Both teams are 1-1 in the ACC and are coming off byes ...
The Virginia Tech Sports Network is the radio network broadcasting athletic events of the Virginia Tech Hokies games, primarily football and men's basketball. The radio network was managed by ISP Sports until that company merged into IMG (now known as Learfield IMG College ) in 2010.
Vanderbilt football defeated Virginia Tech in overtime in the season opener at FirstBank Stadium, 34-27. The Commodores took the lead with a Diego Pavia touchdown run from four yards out in overtime.
The VMI–Virginia Tech football rivalry is an American college football rivalry [1] between the Keydets of Virginia Military Institute and the Hokies of Virginia Tech (formerly known as the Virginia Polytechnic Institute "Fighting Gobblers"). The teams first played in 1894 and last played in 1984.