The Hokies began their season in the same venue they will end it in Thursday night, when they faced off with Alabama in the Chick-Fil-A Kickoff game. Despite beginning the fourth quarter with a lead, the Hokies ended up losing to the Crimson Tide to open their season on a salty note, 34-24.
Tech reeled off five straight wins after the season-opening loss, though, and in mid-October, entered a conference battle with Georgia Tech ranked fourth in the nation and poised to make a run at the BCS title game.
The Hokies couldn’t get it done when they needed to, however, and dropped not only their battle with the Yellow Jackets by a score of 28-23 but the following game as well - to the University of North Carolina, 20-17.
While their chances at a national title game and eventually, a BCS bowl game were shot – the Hokies rebounded from those losses by discovering a long lost passing attack and winning four games to close the season in November.
Junior quarterback Tyrod Taylor was incredibly efficient all year long, throwing for career-highs in nearly every statistical category. Taylor enters the Chick-Fil-A Bowl with a career-high 2,102 yards passing, a career-high of 13 touchdowns and just four interceptions.
Taylor threw two touchdowns in three games this season - something he had only done just once previously at Tech and on Nov. 14, threw three touchdowns for the first time in his career when they Hokies beat the University of Maryland, 36-9.
Thursday night’s game will end pivotal seasons for both Virginia Tech and Tennessee’s football programs.
While the Vols will have their first season under Lane Kiffin wrapped on either a good or a bad note, the Hokies will end a season that “could have been” on either a good or a bad note.
Either way, both teams have much to look forward to for seasons to come – and that’s what makes the Chick-Fil-A Bowl game so intriguing.
The Hokies will be without the services of starting cornerback Stephan Virgil Thursday night. Viril was ruled academically ineligible for the bow game a week ago.
Kickoff is set for 7:30 p.m. in Atlanta, Ga. and the game will be nationally televised on ESPN.
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