Virginia Tech Preview

It's Basketball Season! Well at least that's what Canes fans should be saying with Frank Haith's team lighting up the scoreboard down in Puerto Rico. Anyhow today the Canes play the enemy AKA Virginia Tech.

Frank Beamer has stated that he will alternate Tyrod Taylor and Matt Glennon at QB. Personally I would rather face the immobile Glennon who the Canes ate up last season down in the OB. The Hokies had only a 132 total yards in that game but beat the Canes thanks to three bad Kyle Wright interceptions and some assistance from Jack Childress' officiating crew. I'm not sure if Childress and his friends will be in Blacksburg today but the Canes D-line needs to pressure either Virginia Tech QB.

While Va Tech's receivers are solid they aren't game breakers. I personally rate Virginia much more highly than VT, since the Cavs can grind out games on the ground and wear teams down and have a dominating pass rush. The Canes offensively will be without Graig Cooper and Shawnbrey McNeal but as down as I have been on the Canes all year (I picked them recall to finish below .500) something tells me a win is coming today. Look for Kyle Wright to have time to go downfield to Darnell Jenkins and for Miami to work on getting its multitude of TE's move involved.

Virginia Tech is the program most associated with November collapses against inferior opponents when ranked too high in the Top 25. It happens again today with a shocking Canes win.

MIAMI 16 VIRGINIA TECH 13