ODU Coach Bobby Wilder (center, black hat) leads players and fans in the post-game celebration after the 49-35 win over Virginia Tech (Photo by Ivan Morozov)

Before I get into things, a disclaimer: I have not, at this point, watched much of the game video. I spent all day Sunday driving back from Virginia Beach, arriving back home around 5:30 PM. At that point, I was greeted with a pickup truck that wouldn’t start, and later that night, we discovered that our basement freezer had lost power and thawed out all its contents. (It’s plugged into a GFI that tripped during a heavy storm – rather, it used to be plugged in there; it’s been moved.) Add an 8 PM Sunday night trip to church into the mix, and there was no time for me to review game film in much detail, much less read a lot about the game.