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The Virginia Tech Hokies football team represents Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in the sport of American football. The Hokies compete in the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and the Coastal Division of the Atlantic Coast Conference. They previously competed in the Big East.
Following the 1980 college football season, Virginia Tech was awarded a bid to the 1981 Peach Bowl as a reward for finishing 8–3 during the regular season. [32] Facing Virginia Tech was a familiar post-season opponent—Miami—whom the Hokies had played in the 1966 Liberty Bowl. No. 20 Miami finished the regular season with an 8–3 record. [33]
The Virginia Tech Hokies football team has had 146 players drafted into the National Football League (NFL) since the league began holding drafts in 1936. [ 1][ A 1] This includes eleven players taken in the first round and two overall number one picks, Bruce Smith in the 1985 NFL draft and Michael Vick in the 2001 NFL draft.
Since the team's first competition in 1892, Tech has played in over 1,100 sanctioned football games. Virginia Tech faced the Boston College Eagles in the 2007 ACC Championship game, the final game of the 2007 regular season. The Virginia Tech Hokies college football program are part of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA ...
The Virginia Tech shooting was a spree shooting that occurred on Monday, April 16, 2007, comprising two attacks on the campus of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) in Blacksburg, Virginia, United States. Seung-Hui Cho, an undergraduate student at the university, killed 32 people and wounded 17 others with ...
It has a capacity of 65,632. The Virginia–Virginia Tech football rivalry is an American college football rivalry between the Virginia Cavaliers football team of the University of Virginia (called Virginia in sports media and abbreviated UVA) and Virginia Tech Hokies football team of Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (called ...
Scott Stadium, the home of Virginia football since 1931. This is a list of Virginia Cavaliers football seasons. The Cavaliers are part of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS). Since their inception in 1888, the Cavaliers have played in over 1,200 games through over a century of play ...
1. –. 11. $ – BCS representative as conference champion. Rankings from AP Poll. The 2002 Virginia Tech Hokies football team represented the Virginia Tech in the 2002 NCAA Division I-A football season. The team's head coach was Frank Beamer .