Regular season ·

Virginia Tech beat North Carolina

No. 10 North Carolina0-110
Virginia Tech1-017Final
Fri, Sep 3 · Lane Stadium, Blacksburg, Va. · Crowd 65,632 · 77°, mainly clearESPN

Records are after this game. Rankings are the AP poll before it.

Virginia Tech beat No. 10 North Carolina by 7 points.

North Carolina was No. 10 in the AP poll before the game; Virginia Tech was not ranked.

How the game turned

Virginia Tech aheadNorth Carolina aheadLow: 38%
12

Q1 10:01 Virginia Tech 7, North Carolina 0

Virginia Tech 51% to win

Burmeister 4-yd TD run, Virginia Tech goes ahead 7-0

Big moments

  1. 1Q1 10:01 · Virginia Tech 7, North Carolina 0Virginia Tech's win chance rose from 45% to 51%.Burmeister 4-yd TD run, Virginia Tech goes ahead 7-0
  2. 2Q2 3:07 · Virginia Tech 14, North Carolina 0Virginia Tech's win chance rose from 65% to 77%.Burmeister 11-yd TD pass to Mitchell, Virginia Tech leads 14-0

Virginia Tech's lowest chance to win was 38 percent. Win chance is our own calculation from the play-by-play, with each game's start set from the pregame expectation.

How the lead changed

Virginia Tech led after every score.

What happened next

  1. North Carolina went from No. 10 to No. 24 in the next AP poll.

  2. Virginia Tech's next game: W 35-14 vs Middle Tennessee, Sep 11

    8 days later

  3. North Carolina's next game: W 59-17 vs Georgia State, Sep 11

    8 days later

  4. The teams' next meeting after Sep 3, 2021: North Carolina 41, Virginia Tech 10, Oct 1, 2022

    about 13 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.

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