All
week long, as this game got closer and closer, I found myself thinking that a
Thursday night home game might be just the tonic this team needed. The Thursday
night atmosphere was indeed sweet, but it also helped that the matchup was one
the Hokies could exploit. The rushing game had been missing all year from
Virginia Tech football, and against the overmatched Maryland Terrapins, it
returned, in spades. Now it's up to the Hokies to use this romp as a springboard
to an ACC Championship Game appearance.
This game was only 23-13, not the 55-6 whipping Tech laid on Maryland in the
2004 season, but it was every bit as physically dominating as the win four years
ago.