This epic beatdown, in which the Hokies got thoroughly outplayed and outcoached by an average football team, sent me rummaging through my memory banks to reflect on blowouts of the past.
The thing about "blowouts of the past" is that they can shed some perspective on things and help you put things in context, but they can't tell you what's going to happen next, this year. You might think they can, but really, they can't. You either think the Hokies are going to recover and be okay, or you think this loss is a harbinger of doom for this program. Some of you will be right, and some of you will be wrong. That doesn't make either camp accurate soothsayers, just lucky guessers.