Regular season ·
Vanderbilt beat Virginia Tech
Records are after this game.
Vanderbilt had a 5 percent chance to win with 4:07 left in the 4th quarter, by our win chance curve, and won 34-27 in overtime, August 31, 2024.
How the game turned
Q4 10:12 Vanderbilt 20, Virginia Tech 20
Vanderbilt 31% to win
Drones 11-yd TD pass to Tuten, ties it 20-20
Big moments
- 1Q1 8:27 · Vanderbilt 3, Virginia Tech 0Taylor 43-yd field goal, Vanderbilt goes ahead 3-0
- 2Q4 10:12 · Vanderbilt 20, Virginia Tech 20Vanderbilt's win chance fell from 63% to 31%.Drones 11-yd TD pass to Tuten, ties it 20-20
- 3Q4 4:21 · Vanderbilt 20, Virginia Tech 27Vanderbilt's win chance fell from 28% to 7%.Drones 62-yd TD pass to Jennings, Virginia Tech goes ahead 27-20
- 4Q4 1:51 · Vanderbilt 27, Virginia Tech 27Vanderbilt's win chance rose from 10% to 28%.Pavia 8-yd TD pass to Alexander, ties it 27-27
- 5OT1 · Vanderbilt 34, Virginia Tech 27Vanderbilt's win chance rose from 25% to 41%.Pavia 4-yd TD run, Vanderbilt goes ahead 34-27
Vanderbilt's lowest chance to win was 5 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
With 10:12 left in the 4th quarter, Virginia Tech's chance to win went from 37 percent to 70 percent when Virginia Tech scored a touchdown.
The score went from Vanderbilt 20, Virginia Tech 13 to Vanderbilt 20, Virginia Tech 20.
The play: Drones 11-yd TD pass to Tuten, ties it 20-20.
It was Vanderbilt's first win over Virginia Tech since the 1982 season, after 5 straight losses in the series, counted since 1970 in our games data.
What happened next
Vanderbilt's next game: W 55-0 vs Alcorn State, Sep 7
7 days laterVirginia Tech's next game: W 31-14 vs Marshall, Sep 7
7 days laterThe teams' next meeting after Aug 31, 2024: Vanderbilt 44, Virginia Tech 20, Sep 6, 2025
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.