Hokie Footall

‘"Coming off of last week and people asking, 'Could we get back up?' 'How much is that going to hurt us?' 'Mentally, what did it do to us?'" Coach Frank Beamer said. "I thought our kids and coaches went out there and gave them a response today,” said Beamer after the win over Marshall.
This was a must win football game said by many fans for the Hokies this weekend. Hokies came back strong to defeat the number 15 Nebraska Cornhuskers Saturday evening. Tyrod Taylor would come through in a very exciting fourth quarter as the game ended 16-15. Our Hokie quarterback, Tyrod Taylor, found Danny Coale running along the sideline all alone and wide open in the 80-yard completion. Coale said. "I just kept running as fast as I could and I looked up and saw the ball heading right into my hands." This completion in the fourth quarter gave the Hokies great field position. Three plays later Tyrod Taylor found another receiver, Dyrell Roberts, in the endzone to result in a touchdown which rescued the Hokies for the win Saturday. The Cornhuskers fell to 1-21 in the last 22 games against teams in the top twenty in the nation. Virginia Tech continued its string of 32 non conference home game wins.
This was a great win for the Virginia Tech Hokies who had struggled all day against the Nebraska defense. Virginia Tech was down by five points to Nebraska. An offense that had mustered only two first downs and 55 yards in the second half was stuck on its own 12-yard line. There appeared to be little shot of victory. "Once I saw that he was open, I just had to let it go," said Taylor, who was hit just after he released the ball in the eighty yard completion to Danny Coale. This got the Hokies on the three yard line with about one minute left on the clock in the fourth quarter. After being sacked on the first play from the 3 three yard line for an eight yard loss and then rushed into throwing the ball away, Tyrod scrambled for what some say seemed to be an eternity before rifling the ball to Roberts on the right side of the end zone with 21 seconds left.
The Miami Hurricanes are going to be rolling into Blacksburg on the twenty-sixth as the Hokies next opponent. The Hokies are 9-17 against the Hurricanes from nineteen fifty-three to two-thousand eight. Five of the wins came at Lane Stadium, which has a tendency to do that to teams. Lane Stadium is one of the loudest in the nation. The Virginia Tech football team has enjoyed well over a decade of success, going to 16 straight bowl games. A big part of that success is the home-field advantage the Hokies enjoy at Lane Stadium/Worsham Field.