Regular season ·
West Virginia beat Virginia Tech
Records are after this game. Rankings are the AP poll before it.
West Virginia beat No. 15 Virginia Tech by 6 points.
Virginia Tech was No. 15 in the AP poll before the game; West Virginia was not ranked.
How the game turned
Q2 (no clock) West Virginia 14, Virginia Tech 7
West Virginia 79% to win
Burmeister run for no gain, turnover on downs
Big moments
- 1Q1 12:24 · West Virginia 7, Virginia Tech 0West Virginia's win chance rose from 57% to 70%.Brown 80-yd TD run, West Virginia goes ahead 7-0
- 2Q2 (no clock) · West Virginia 14, Virginia Tech 7West Virginia's win chance rose from 57% to 79%.Burmeister run for no gain, turnover on downs
West Virginia's lowest chance to win was 46 percent. Win chance is our own calculation from the play-by-play, with each game's start set from the pregame expectation.
The biggest swing
In the 2nd quarter, West Virginia's chance to win went from 57 percent to 79 percent on a failed fourth down.
The score stayed West Virginia 14, Virginia Tech 7.
The play: Virginia Tech on 4th down, Burmeister run for no gain.
It was West Virginia's first win over Virginia Tech since the 2003 season, after 3 straight losses in the series, counted since 1970 in our games data.
What happened next
Virginia Tech was No. 15 before the game and out of the next AP poll.
West Virginia's next game: L 13-16 at Oklahoma, Sep 25
7 days laterVirginia Tech's next game: W 21-10 vs Richmond, Sep 25
7 days laterThe teams' next meeting after Sep 18, 2021: West Virginia 33, Virginia Tech 10, Sep 22, 2022
about 12 months later
Related pages
Scores, dates and the stage: ESPN. Win chance: our curve from play-by-play; the turn is its largest one-play change that moved with the score.