It's a game mostly forgotten in Hokie football history. No Virginia Tech fan
ever reminisces fondly of the 45-23 whipping the Hokies received at the hands of
a Tennessee team led by a quarterback named Peyton Manning, in the creeping fog
at the 1994 Gator Bowl. It was the biggest stage the Hokies had played on at
that point in their history, and they flopped miserably. This game was a
miserable experience all the way around, so, hey ... what say we relive it?
The Hokies finished the 1994 regular season 8-3, but it was very different
from the 8-3 record they had posted just a year earlier. Tech was ranked 15th in
the nation in the coaches' poll and 17th in the AP poll, but the truth is, they
were fading fast.