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Virginia Tech Hokies Football: The ACC is back on notice
The Virginia Tech Hokies are back, or at least we think so.
The 2016 season in the ACC Coastal division was supposed to belong to the North Carolina Tar Heels. That’s what we all thought anyway. The Virginia Tech Hokies had other plans. For the duration of the season, they made sure every college football fan learned a very valuable lesson. The Hokies weren’t going to sit by idly while the guys from Chapel Hill, North Carolina cruised to a second straight appearance in the ACC Championship Game.
An opening week victory was followed by a 21-point thrashing at the hands of the Tennessee Volunteers. Who knows what happened against the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets and the Syracuse Orange. Those would be the only two losses Virginia Tech would experience in their ACC schedule.
They cruised to victories over the Miami Hurricanes and the aforementioned Tar Heels, earning them a 6-2 record in the conference. That would be good enough to get them into the most important football game of the ACC’s schedule.
Unfortunately, when they got there, they ran into the Clemson Tigers.
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Entering the game, the Hokies would play the role of the underdogs, but they gave it their best. Against the team that most would agree is the second-best in the country, the Hokies played a game that would have beaten the majority of the better college football teams in the nation. It wouldn’t be enough on that night, but seeing as how the Tigers are a legitimate title contender, the loss isn’t anything that they should hang their heads about.
What’s next?
Virginia Tech joins the Louisville Cardinals and Army Black Knights in a scandal involving a Wake Forest staff member leaking game plan information to several teams. Tech’s only game against the Demon Deacons during that stretch came in 2014 where it took both of these programs four full quarters and two overtimes to decide a winner. It would have been a classic had it not been for one thing. Both teams combined for a grand total of nine points. Former head coach Frank Beamer denies any knowledge of this his assistants being given any unfair advantage. While, officials at Virginia Tech acknowledge the seriousness of the allegations, they maintain their program handles itself with dignity.
So for now we’ll have to wait and see. Success breeds success, and with a new head coach and a great season to build on, Virginia Tech can expect the recruits to roll in. Virginia’s fertile ground for some of the best high school talent in the country. Those recruits will have another chance to see this team play before they’ll need to make a decision. Tech meets the Arkansas Razorbacks in the Belk Bowl on December 29th. A win will give them ten on the season. We’ll have to wait and see what comes of the recent allegations that have been made against them, but 2016 has taught us two things. The Hokies are back, and the only thing that can stop them is themselves.
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