Virginia Tech Football Preview 2025: Can Brent Pry Finally Make the Hokies Contenders?

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It's never easy when you're trying to live up to the impossible standards of a legend.

Not dogging Virginia Tech in any way, but it's not Alabama, or Florida State, or Texas, or Ohio State, and yet Frank Beamer was a double-digit win machine for so long that it became routine.

Justin Fuente was able to keep the success going for a while, but things started to slip, 2020 was a problem, and now Virginia Tech is on a run of four losing seasons in the last five years - the first such run since 1970 to 1974 - and now that's starting to seem routine.

Pry has tried rebuilding, and he's doing a decent job of bringing in the talent, but there hasn't been a whole lot of luck, and there's been less early success.

Virginia Tech needs to do two things. 1) Start better, and 2 beat the mid non-ACC power programs.

Pry is now 0-6 against non-conference Power Four teams, and it's not like his guys had to deal with Michigan and Georgia, losing to Vanderbilt, Minnesota, Purdue, West Virginia, and twice to Rutgers. And because of that, the Hokies have had a hard time getting off the launching pad.

It's hard to matter when you're all but out of contention for anything fun before October starts.

The Hokies began last year with a 2-3 September - but to be fair, they were totally hosed in the Miami loss - started 2-3 in September of 2023, and 2-2 before October in 2022. And after that, the conference seasons haven't been much better.

Over the last three seasons they're 10-13 in the ACC, the program has suffered four losing seasons in the last five, and ... Pry is trying to fix that in a big hurry. 

The Hokies aren't getting rocked. Five of the six regular season losses last year were by one score, they hung tough with Clemson, and a few injury issues and inconsistencies didn't help.

They're close. Pry did a nice job in the transfer portal, the coaching staff has been changed up a bit, and there isn't a game on the schedule his team can't win if things start to go the right way.

The run of losing seasons will stop here, but to do more, especially in the ACC, it's time to crank up the ... 

Virginia Tech Offense Breakdown
Virginia Tech Defense Breakdown
Season Prediction, Win Total, Keys to Season