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.

Contents 1 Championships 1.1 Conference Championships 1.2 Divisional Championships 2 Trophy Games 3 Individual Award Winners 3.1 Players 3.2 Coaches 4 First Overall Selections in the NFL Draft 5 Other Notable Players 6 See Also 7 Further reading 8 References

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[edit] Conference Championships

Conference Affiliations

• 1892-97: Independent
• 1898: Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association
• 1899-1906: Independent
• 1907-21: South Atlantic Intercollegiate Athletic Association
• 1922-64: Southern Conference
• 1965-90: Independent
• 1991-2003: Big East
• 2004-present: ACC

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 [edit] Divisional Championships 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 [edit] Trophy Games Black Diamond Trophy - West Virginia Mountaineers Commonwealth Cup - Virginia Cavaliers [edit] Individual Award Winners [edit] Players Bronko Nagurski Trophy Corey Moore - 1999 Dave Rimington Trophy Jake Grove - 2003 Lombardi Award Corey Moore - 1999 Outland Trophy Bruce Smith - 1984 [edit] Coaches Paul "Bear" Bryant Award Frank Beamer - 1999 Broyles Award Bud Foster - 2006 [edit] First Overall Selections in the NFL Draft 1985 - Bruce Smith, Buffalo Bills 2001 - Michael Vick, Atlanta Falcons [edit] Other Notable Players Carroll Dale - Retired NFL Tight End Jim Druckenmiller - Retired NFL Quarterback Antonio Freeman - Retired NFL Wide Receiver Shayne Graham - Placekicker, Cincinnati Bengals DeAngelo Hall - Cornerback, Atlanta Falcons Billy Hardee - Retired NFL Defensive Back Kevin Jones - Running Back, Detroit Lions Jimmie W. Monteith - Medal of Honor recipient Pierson Prioleau - Defensive Back, Washington Redskins Jim Pyne - Retired NFL Offensive Lineman Don Strock - Retired NFL Quarterback Lee Suggs - Free Agent NFL Running Back Rick Tolley & Frank Loria - Coaches, Marshall University Died with most of the members of their football team in Southern Airlines Flight 932 Marcus Vick - Wide Receiver, Miami Dolphins Ernest Wilford - Wide Receiver, Jacksonville Jaguars Jimmy Williams - Cornerback, Atlanta Falcons [edit] See Also 2006 Virginia Tech Hokies football team [edit] Further reading 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. [edit] References ^ Lavender, David (2005-08-21). No place like home. Retrieved on July 1, 2006. ^ Meet the Coaches (PDF) 30. Retrieved on July 1, 2006.  This college football-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.