The Virginia Tech Hokies’ Football Season Ends and There was No Mercy: 7-27

The Wahoos have a quarterback and a decent enough team to dominate the Hokies and head to the ACC championship game. There is probably only one good thing to come out of this mess and it’s that the season is mercifully over for the hapless Hokies. The defense did the best that it could, given the circumstances, but the offense just didn’t manage to show up.

The Game Started Slowly Enough

It did look like there’d be a shot at getting the Cavaliers hung up in a defensive slug fest that the limited Virginia Tech offense could manage to get somewhere and score something. The first quarter ended with the Hoos only up 7-0 and the Hokie defense was managing to get some decent stops of Chandler Morris and his single season miracle UVA offense.

The problem was that Kyron Drones couldn’t connect on many passes, and when he did, they were short and didn’t accomplish much in the way of moving the ball. The bad news started with a tipped ball off of a straight drop back that was intercepted by the Hoos. The resulting scoring drive put the Cavs up 7-0, and they could afford to do some struggling of their own at that point.

Tech did manage a few good runs but the closest that they got was a stalled drive at the UVA 28, John Love, uncharacteristically missed a relatively short field goal for him that would have at least gotten Tech off the floor. That was really the final time the Hokies managed to threaten the Wahoos.

No First Downs for You

The story of the game was the complete meltdown of the Virginia Tech offense after the missed field goal in the 1st. They wouldn’t manage a first down for the remainder of the game. Tech never got the ball past their 47-yard line after that drive.

The only thing that the Tech offense managed to do was run the ball a few times. Freshman Jeffrey Overton lead the rushing effort for Tech, Kyron Drones, and Terion Stewart toted the rock, too, but the team never averaged more than 4 yards per carry. Drones was totally ineffective in the passing game and ended up completing just 25% of his passes with two interceptions. He was victimized by a few drops but his struggles with the passing game continued to the end of the season.

The Hokie defense, with a total lack of help from the offense was just finally overmatched and even with the Hoos only scoring 27 points the Hokie D just couldn’t hold the Hoos scoreless. They had some pretty manful stops and a turnover on downs late, but the offense just couldn’t take advantage.

The Only Saving Grace, a Dead Skunk

There was one saving grace for the Hokies, with Tech stalled, again at their own 43 it was 4th down and a total desperation inside slant pass play on 4th down and 2 resulted in a touchdown for the Hokies that killed the skunk and allowed them a measure of dignity in a game that the offense just never really showed up to play. Drones’s 4 completion of his 16 attempts was a touchdown to Shamarius Peterkin who caught the ball in 1st down territory (would have been Tech’s first one since the first quarter) broke into the open and streaked down the left seam for a 57-yard Tech touchdown. John Love kicked the final point of the game.

UVA got the ball after a failed onside kick and never let it go. They burned off the final 4:19 of the game as Tech didn’t call timeouts to stall the inevitable.

The Curtain Falls on 2025

The stage drapes fell hard on the Hokies this season. They just weren’t very good, and there is very little probability that much of this team will be left in the locker room for the Spring Game.

The story of the 2026 Hokies will have to wait to be written, though. The Transfer Portal window isn’t open, yet, and the coaching moves haven’t been announced or even discussed in public.

It will be a 100% rebuild for 2026, and it will be surprising to see any leftovers from this one. There are a few players that showed some promise for the next campaign, but the staff is likely to be completely new, and the funds for NIL are likely to be stretched to find enough talent to make it worth showing up.

Time to Cover Basketball

Both Hokie Hoops teams show promise but also challenges. It will be good to cover something else for a change of pace. Baseball starts up in the middle of February, and new fresh things will be up to talk about.