Virginia Tech Hokies football

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Virginia Tech Hokies football
Head Coach Frank Beamer
20th Year, 156-81-2
Home Stadium Lane Stadium
Capacity 65,115 - Grass
Conference ACC - Coastal
First Year 1892
Athletic Director Jim Weaver
Website HokieSports.com
Team Records
All-time Record 637-417-46 (.600)
Postseason
Bowl Record		 7-12
Awards
Conference Titles 5
Pageantry
Colors Maroon and Orange            
Fight song Tech Triumph
Mascot HokieBird
Marching Band The Marching Virginians
Rivals Virginia Cavaliers
West Virginia Mountaineers


The Virginia Tech Hokies are a college football program that competes in NCAA Division I-A and the Coastal Division of Atlantic Coast Conference. Their home games are played at Lane Stadium, considered one of the loudest stadiums in the country and recognized in 2005 by Rivals.com as having the best homefield advantage in the country. [1]

Head coach Frank Beamer is the third-winningest active coach in Division I-A, ranking behind only Bobby Bowden and Joe Paterno with 188 wins following the 2005 season. [2] Beamer is also a Virginia Tech graduate and played defensive back for the Hokies.

The Hokies currently have the fifth-longest bowl game streak in the country, having participated in the postseason every year since 1993. In that span, the Hokies have finished with a Top-10 ranking four times, won four conference championships (three Big East and one ACC), and played once for the national championship, losing to Florida State University 46-29 in the 2000 Sugar Bowl.


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Conference Affiliations

Year Conference Overall Record Conference Record
1963 Southern 8-2
1995† Big East 10-2 6-1
1996† Big East 10-2 6-1
1999 Big East 11-1 7-0
2004 ACC 10-3 7-1
Total conference championships 5
† Denotes co-champions

Virginia Tech has appeared in the ACC Championship Game as the winner of the Coastal Division once, losing to Atlantic Division winner Florida State in 2005.

Year Division Championship ACC CG Result Opponent PF PA
2005 ACC Coastal L Florida State 22 27
Totals 1 0-1 - 22 27

Corey Moore - 1999
Jake Grove - 2003
Corey Moore - 1999
Bruce Smith - 1984

Frank Beamer - 1999
Bud Foster - 2006

Died with most of the members of their football team in Southern Airlines Flight 932

  • Beamer, Frank and Colston, Chris. Turn up the Wick. 223 pages. Epic Sports: 2000. ISBN 192884632-7.
  • Schlabach, Mark. What it Means to be a Hokie. 272 pages. Triumph Books: 2006. ISBN 1-57243-851-7.

  1. ^ Lavender, David (2005-08-21). No place like home. Retrieved on July 1, 2006.
  2. ^ Meet the Coaches (PDF) 30. Retrieved on July 1, 2006.
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