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Virginia Tech (high = 26, low = 56) is next up in the countdown at #46. Brent Pry returns for his 4th season as the head coach of the Hokies on one of the hottest seats in the ACC after finishing 2024 6-7 and dropping the Duke’s Mayo Bowl to Minnesota. Having never had a winning regular season in Blacksburg in any of his 3 seasons after taking over for Justin Fuente, Pry has essentially continued the downward slide the Hokies have been on since Fuente’s first season in charge, and the real question is how many wins will he need to keep his job after this season. He did make changes at both coordinators, replacing OC Tyler Bowen with former Tulsa head coach Philip Montgomery and DC Chris Marve with Arizona Cardinals linebacker coach Sam Siefkes. All that being said, Virginia Tech did drop 2 OT games and that overturned Hail Mary game at Miami, so things might not be as bleak as their record suggests.
Roster outlook
The Hokies rank 77th in the country in returning production, with key losses on either side of the ball largely necessitating an influx of fresh blood. QB Kyron Drones is back for 2025, but RB Bhayshul Tuten is off to the NFL (Jaguars) and most of their WR corps graduated. In fact, Pry managed to put together a top 40 recruiting class nationally and paired that with the #42 portal class in the country (both ranking 9th – right in the middle – of the ACC). That portal class projects to 12 new starters (6 on offense, 6 on defense), including former Tennessee RB Cameron Seldon and former Wake Forest WR Donavon Greene, plus 4 star RG Tomas Rimac from West Virginia. On defense, the Hokies do get back LB Caleb Woodson, but will be sporting 6 G6 transfers in the starting lineup.
Schedule and outlook
The Hokies open the season in Atlanta facing LaNorris Sellers and the South Carolina Gamecocks before hosting Diego Pavia and Vandy in week 2, a team they lost to last year. If they start out 0-2, Pry has to be on the short list of candidates for first coach fired, especially with a former head coach (and thus somebody who can hold the interim title through to the end of the season) already on staff. Barring that, the schedule lightens up quite a bit for a while, with their remaining two OOC games (ODU and Wofford) at home before going to Raleigh to play the Wolfpack (ranked just below them here) and then Wake Forest. Throw in a home game against Cal and the Commonwealth Cup game at Virginia to close out the season, and there are enough winnable games on that schedule such that the Hokies should definitely be bowling at the end of the season. Which is why the question still remains – how many wins will Pry need to see season 5 in Blacksburg?