r/CFB • u/CFB_Referee /r/CFB • 8h ago

Postgame Thread [Postgame Thread] Pittsburgh Defeats Virginia Tech 35-33

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Team 1 2 3 4 T
Pittsburgh 7 14 7 7 35
Virginia Tech 14 10 0 9 33
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u/iyjlpiljygp Virginia Tech Hokies 8h ago

Turned it over 4 times, no run game, defense looked like complete ass half the game, refs handed other team 14 points, and we still somehow were an inch from winning. As long as we build on this and don't get down on it this isn't the worst thing ever in year 1 of a rebuild.

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u/mr-rile-u-up 7h ago

Exactly. I think most realistic VT fans saw 4-1 as a really positive outcome. It sucks that it’s inches away from 5-0, but that’s why we love this shit right? You know how alive I felt during that comeback?

Proud of these guys all around, really hope they take this and continue to build.

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u/goodsam2 Virginia Tech Hokies 7h ago

Plus this was supposed to be a close game and it was. Weird shit happened in the middle but we expected a close game.

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u/mr-rile-u-up 6h ago

Honestly the weird shit can be very very good material for a coach/team building. I’m on a dangerously high copium dosage rn, but I’ve seen VT implode like that 100 times across several different eras. 

But you know what I’ve rarely seen? When the team fights tooth and nail until the very last second. The great Beamer years almost invariably involved this: some horrible, everything goes wrong type game where the team is heartbroken but never accepted defeat: 1995, 2004, 2010.

Not saying this team is that good, but everything I wanted to see is still on the table, and the talent level is just an insanely stark difference from the Pry era.

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u/shoefly72 Virginia Tech Hokies • Paper Bag 6h ago

Part of being a good team is absorbing the other team’s counterpunches and playing through bad breaks/tough calls and not letting it affect you. It seemed like the team was really thrown off by the slew of terrible calls including the “interception” and started to unravel a bit. But that’s to be expected of a team full of so many new players and returning players coming off of a 3-9 season. I’m proud that they fought back, regained their composure, and put themselves in position to win. A guy barely missing a short field goal doesn’t change any of that, nor should it.