The Virginia Tech football team suffered a 35-20 loss at Georgia Tech on Saturday afternoon to enter their first bye week of the season at 2-5. This is a good time for interim coach Philip Montgomery and his team to ge healthy. They will also get a chance to look at the film.
When looking at that film, they will try to figure out why they went 0-for-8 on third downs against the Yellow Jackets. On the plus side, they scored two touchdowns on fourth downs, where they were 3-for-4 in the game. However, Montgomery will be diving deeper into their third-down issues.
"Being behind the sticks is never good,'' Montgomery said. "I don't know the depths of those; they're a tough team on third down. They've got a lot of veterans in the secondary back there and gave us some different looks, got a couple of different pressures in there, but I'll have to look at the tape and see where that went. We've been pretty good on third down throughout the year. Today wasn't one of those days, so we'll have to go back to the drawing board to see what we can do to fix that.''
Virginia Tech returns home to host California on Oct. 24, looking to have more success on third downs.
Virginia Tech well represented on Monday night doubleheader
Week 6 is almost over in the NFL, but for Virginia Tech fans, there are still two games of interest on a rare Monday night doubleheader. Two Monday night football games will have a Virginia Tech feel to them. The first matchup at 7:15 p.m. on ESPN pits the Buffalo Bills, with Dorian Strong will travel to play the Atlanta Falcons. An hour later on ABC, Tremaine Edmunds and the Chicago Bears will travel to play Jaylin Lane and the Washington Commanders.
Virginia Tech weekend results
- The Hokies women's soccer team traveled to California to play 3rd-ranked Stanford on Thursday night and Cal on Sunday. They lost both games, 5-0, to Stanford and 1-0 to the Golden Bears. At 4-8-3 overall and 0-6-1 in the ACC, Virginia Tech will host Duke on Saturday night at 7 in a rematch of last year's Elite Eight matchup in the NCAA Tournament.
- On Saturday night at Thompson Field, the Hokies men's soccer team got two goals from freshman Dagur Traustason in a 2-0 win over Louisville. He had a hat trick against Longwood in a 3-0 win on Tuesday night. Virginia Tech improved to 5-2-4 overall and 1-2-2 in the ACC got a shutout from Sam Joseph. They will travel to North Carolina on Sunday at 5 p.m.
- Virginia Tech's women's volleyball team traveled to Louisville and Notre Dame over the weekend and lost both matches, 3-0, to the Cardinals and 3-1 to the Irish. At 9-8 overall and 1-5 in the ACC, the Hokies will host Virginia on Wednesday at 7 p.m.