Dalton Keene, Virginia Tech
Dalton Keene greets Eric Kumah at the pregame coin toss. (Ivan Morozov)

When Virginia Tech went up 24-3 following the opening drive of the third quarter against Old Dominion, I felt pretty good about things.  At that point ODU had fewer than 100 yards of total offense, most of which came on their first drive of the game.  I wasn’t happy with the running game, but it looked a lot better on that opening drive of the third quarter with true freshman Bryan Hudson at center in place of John Harris.  I picked the game 41-10 in favor of the Hokies, and at that point it looked like that prediction was going to be somewhere in the ballpark.