Virginia Tech Football: 5 things we learned from Virginia win

5. Virginia is all bark and no bite

After beating Duke last weekend, Colandrea spoke about the matchup with the Hokies and went on the record that they were going to win. Message sent in Charlottesville and message received in Blacksburg.

Colandrea wasn’t alone in giving Pry, his staff, and team bulletin board material after the Cavaliers beat the Blue Devils, and so did safety Jonas Sanker.

You would think that after speaking as strongly as Colandrea and Sanker did that Virginia would come out ready to go and give Virginia Tech everything they could handle. Well, guess again.

As it turned out, the Cavaliers came out and laid an egg. Defensively they offered little resistance against the Hokies’ offense, offensively they we shut down by the Virginia Tech defense, and in the end, Tech put up 55 points, the most ever by one team in a game in the rivalry and heading into the offseason at 3-9 with a lot more questions than answers.

Virginia was hoping to take another step in their rebuild, instead for one afternoon, they took a giant step backward. I get it, kids are young and they should think before they speak, but facing a Virginia Tech team hungry and looking to become bowl-eligible, there was no need to speak what they were thinking at the time.

In the end, the Hokies won and are bowl-eligible with another month of practice before a bowl game in December before they start planning for 2024.