(Top 30 only)
RushingYPG
8.
Virginia Tech ............................................... 253.9
Total Offense YPG
9.
Virginia Tech ............................................. 451.82
PuntingNET YDS.
27.
Virginia Tech ................................................. 37.6
Punt Return Yards Avg.
20.
Virginia Tech ................................................. 12.3
Kickoff Return Yards Avg.
9.
Virginia Tech ................................................. 24.5
☛ Virginia Tech led the nation in scoring (41.4 ppg) and scoring defense (10.5). It is the first time a BIG
EAST team has led the NCAA in scoring, and the third time a league squad has been first in scoring defense
(Miami, 1994, 1991). It is the first time a team has led both categories in the same year since Florida State did it in the 1993 season.
☛ Quarterback Michael Vick led the nation in passing efficiency. The 180.4 efficiency rating set a freshman record, breaking the mark set by former Syracuse QB
Donovan McNabb in 1995.
1.
Virginia Tech ................................................. 41.4
Rushing Defense YPG
3.
Virginia Tech ................................................. 75.9
Pass Efficiency Defense Rating Pts.
7.
Virginia Tech ................................................. 98.1
Total Defense YPG
3.
Virginia Tech ............................................... 247.3
Scoring Defense PPG
1.
Virginia Tech ................................................. 10.5
(Top 30 only)
RushingYPG
28.
Shyrone Stith ............................................ 101.73
Passing Efficiency Rating Pts.
1.
Michael Vick ............................................... 180.4
Total Offense YPG
27.
Michael Vick ............................................. 242.00
Punt Returns Avg.
18.
Ricky Hall .................................................... 12.75
Kickoff Returns Avg.
18.
Shyrone Stith .............................................. 25.80
Scoring Offense PPG
7.
Shayne Graham ........................................... 9.73
Receiving Yards Per Game YPG
27.
André Davis ................................................ 87.45
Field Goals FGPG
13.
Shayne Graham ........................................... 1.55
All-Purpose Yards YPG
23.
Shyrone Stith ............................................ 141.27
Michael Vick
Pos. Offense (starts)
SE Emmett Johnson (7),
Ricky Hall (5)
LT Anthony Lambo (12)
LG Matt Lehr (12)
C Keith Short (10),
Steve DeMasi (2)
RG Josh Redding (12)
RT Dave Kadela (12)
TE Derek Carter (12)
QB Michael Vick (11),
Dave Meyer (1)
FB Jarrett Ferguson (12)
TB Shyrone Stith (12)
FL André Davis (12)
Pos. Defense (starts)
E Corey Moore (12)
T Nathaniel Williams (6),
John Engelberger (3),
T
E
Chad Beasley (3)
Carl Bradley (12)
John Engelberger (9),
Chris Cyrus (3)
OLB Ben Taylor (12)
ILB Michael Hawkes (12)
ILB Jamel Smith (12)
FC Anthony Midget (12)
FS Nick Sorensen (12)
ROV Cory Bird (12)
BC Ike Charlton (12)

Several years ago, Aretha
Franklin sang a song about respect.
The Virginia Tech Hokies know all about that. They have been trying to earn a nation’s respect for years.
And despite losing to
Florida State in the 2000
Sugar Bowl, the Hokies did exactly that.
In a breath-taking game — one of the best championship games in recent history —
Tech rallied from a 21-point first-half deficit to take the lead from Florida State going into the fourth quarter. But the
Hokies simply couldn’t overcome their mistakes nor the big plays of the
Seminoles, and as a result,
FSU walked off the field with a 46-29 Sugar Bowl victory in front of 79,280 fans at the
Superdome.
By winning, Florida State claimed its second national championship. Meanwhile,
Tech claimed respect.
“We earned their respect,”
Tech tailback André
Kendrick said. “They [the
Seminoles] let us know we played a great game. We’re not a fluke. We’re for real.
They know we’re for real.
Everyone knows we’re for real.
Tech lost for the first time in more than a year. The
Hokies, who rolled to an 11-
0 regular season, finished their greatest season ever ranked No. 2 in the final
Associated Press poll and
No. 3 in the ESPN/ USA
Today coaches’ poll.
“I’d like to congratulate
Florida State,” Tech head coach Frank Beamer said after the game. “I thought they made some great plays and we did some things that were uncharacteristic of our football team.
“But I’m proud of the people in that dressing room.
We had a good cryin’ session in there. We’ve got some people we hate to see leave this program and then we’ve got some great, young kids coming back. That’s the way college football is.”
Tech showed no fear against one of the nation’s premier programs. Florida
State became the first team to be ranked No. 1 for an entire season since the
Associated Press came out with preseason rankings in
1950. The win also gave
Florida State its first perfect season ever and its second national championship overall. The Seminoles claimed their first title in 1993.
But for the Hokies, the sting of this game will loom for a long time. Not so much because they lost, but because of how they lost.
Emmett Johnson heads upfield against Florida State in the 2000 Nokia Sugar Bowl in New Orleans.
Much like it did in the 1995
Sugar Bowl win over Texas,
Tech played poorly in the first half and trailed at halftime. In the first half alone, the Hokies had a blocked punt that was returned for a touchdown and they gave up a punt return for a touchdown. Combined with a couple of breakdowns in the secondary, Tech found itself trailing 28-7 nearly 18 minutes into the game.
But the Hokies, much like they did all season, showed some mettle. And just like in
1995 when Bryan Still returned a punt for a touchdown just before halftime against the
Longhorns, the Hokies got a score late in the first half to change the momentum.
Michael Vick, Tech’s redshirt freshman quarterback, got the Hokies back in the game with a 3yard touchdown run with 37 seconds left in the first half. Tech then went on to score 22 unanswered points and took a 29-28 lead on Kendrick’s 6-yard run with 2:13 left in the third quarter.
That score sent the
30,000-40,000 Tech fans in the Superdome into a frenzy.
“I’m proud of the way we came back,” Beamer said. “We were down 28-7 and it could have gotten ugly. I know I’d be miserable if we had gotten beat 55-7. We came back and played hard. We just didn’t make enough plays.
“You have to give them credit. They came back and took the lead and got us.”
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Unlike in 1995, when the
Hokies dominated the second half against Texas,
Tech couldn’t put the
Seminoles away primarily because of a critical fourthdown call by FSU coach
Bobby Bowden.
On fourth-and-one from the FSU 46, Bowden brought in reserve quarterback Marcus Outzen and the Hokies expected a quarterback sneak. Instead
Outzen pitched it to Travis
Minor, who ran 16 yards for a first down. After the play,
Tech was called for a 15yard personal foul penalty.
That gave the Seminoles a first down at the Tech 23.
“That was a gutsy call, but it worked out,” Beamer said.
“If we stop them there, we’ve really got the momentum. Then we got the 15-yard penalty and it became real significant.
That’s not the way we play.”
“You have to have momentum,” Bowden said.
“We had it first, they had it second, and we got it back away from them and won the game.”
The play turned out to be the turning point. Four plays later, FSU quarterback Chris
Weinke hit receiver Ron
Dugans for a 14-yard scoring play to give the
Seminoles the lead. FSU went on to score the game’s final 18 points — all in the fourth quarter.
“It would have been a momentum thing for us,”
Tech cornerback Ike
Charlton said. “We stop them there and we have good field position. But they end up getting it and they got the momentum back.
That probably hurt us a little bit.”
The game showcased two of the best players in the nation — maybe the best — and neither disappointed.
For FSU receiver Peter
Warrick, the national championship game marked
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Jake Houseright (41) and Carl Bradley tackle a Seminole.
the swan song of his wellpublicized career, while for
Vick, it marked perhaps his national coming-out party.
Warrick, the game’s most valuable player, caught six passes for 163 yards and two touchdowns. And while the
Hokies worked all week on tackling him after he caught the ball, they underestimated his ability to get deep. He caught touchdown passes of
64 and 43 yards. Fittingly, the
64-yarder got the Seminoles on the board to start the game and the 43-yarder polished the game off for
Florida State.
As for Vick, who finished third in the voting for the
Heisman Trophy, he accounted for 323 of the
Hokies’ 503 yards of total offense. He constantly avoided
FSU’s rush with a dazzling display of footwork and racked up 97 yards rushing. And he hurt the Seminoles through the air, completing 15 of 29 passes for 225 yards and a touchdown.
“I’m proud of my performance,” Vick said. “If I could change anything about this season, I wouldn’t change anything. Even tonight. I wouldn’t change a thing.
“We went out there and played as hard as we could.
We showed everyone we are champions. There is no way we don’t have the respect of this nation right now. I think everyone knows we are one of the top teams in the nation.”
Tech proved it belonged among the nation’s elite.
And now, it’s a matter of time before the Hokies play in a game of this magnitude again.
“It’s been a great year,”
Beamer said. “Some great players made some great plays against us and we did some things that weren’t quite characteristic of us.
“But having gotten here is the first step. Now we need to get back to this game and win it.”
First quarter
FSU 7, Tech 0 — Touchdown, Warrick 64-yard pass from
Weinke (Janikowski kick), 3:22. Drive: four plays,
80 yards, :32.
FSU 14, Tech 0 — Touchdown, Chaney 6-yard blocked punt return (Janikowski kick), 2:14.
FSU 14, Tech 7 — Touchdown, Davis 49-yard pass from
Vick (Graham kick), :30. Drive: three plays, 80 yards, 1:44.
Second quarter
FSU 21, Tech 7 — Touchdown, Dugans 63-yard pass from
Weinke (Janikowski kick), 13:45. Drive: five plays,
80 yards, 1:45.
FSU 28, Tech 7 — Touchdown, Warrick 59-yard punt return
(Janikowski kick), 11:40.
FSU 28, Tech 14 — Touchdown, Vick 3-yard run (Graham kick), :37. Drive: seven plays, 80 yards, 3:16.
Third quarter
FSU 28, Tech 17 — Field goal, Graham from 23 yards out,
7:54. Drive: five plays, 34 yards, 1:44.
FSU 28, Tech 23 — Touchdown, Kendrick 29-yard run
(pass failed), 5:57. Drive: three plays, 36 yards, :55.
Tech 29, FSU 28 — Touchdown, Kendrick 6-yard run
(Graham kick), 2:13. Drive: seven plays, 59 yards, 3:14.
Fourth quarter
FSU 36, Tech 29 — Touchdown, Dugans 14-yard pass from Weinke (Janikowski kick), 12:59. Drive: 11 plays,
85 yards, 4:14..
FSU 39, Tech 29 — Field goal, Janikowski from 32 yards out, 10:26. Drive: five plays, 19 yards, 1:32.
FSU 46, Tech 29 — Touchdown , Warrick 43-yard pass from Weinke (Janikowski kick), 7:42. Drive: one play,
43 yards, :10.
Virginia Tech
Florida State
Team Stats
First downs
Rushing
Passing
Penalty
Rush attempts
Net yards rushing
Net yards passing
Passes attempted
Passes completed
Had intercepted
Total plays
Total net yards
Avg. gain per play
Fumbles: no. lost
7 7 15
14 14 0
0 29
18 46
Penalties: yards lost
INT’s: return yards
Sacks by: yards lost
No. of punts-yards
Avg. per punt
Punt returns
Kickoff returns
Possession time
3rd downs
4th downs
VT
24
11
10
3
52
278
225
29
15
0
81
502
6.2
3-3
6-65
1-0
4-31
6-176
29.3
4-88
4-134
36:25
3 of 14
0 of 4
0-0
7-37
7-310
44.3
4-80
4-75
23:35
5 of 14
1 of 1
359
6.3
2-0
7-59
34
20
1
57
FSU
15
4
10
1
23
30
329
Individual Leaders
Rushing — VT: Vick 23-97, Kendrick 12-69, Stith
11-68, Davis 1-16, Johnson 1-12, Sorensen 1-7,
Ferguson 1-5, Hawkins 1-4, Graham 1-0; FSU: Chaney
4-43, Minor 9-39, Team 3-(-7), Weinke 7-(-41).
Passing — VT: Vick 15-29-0-225; FSU: Weinke
20-34-1-329.
Receiving — VT: Davis 7-108, Hawkins 2-49,
Kendrick 2-27, Johnson 1-23, Wynn 1-7, Ferguson 1-6,
Carter 1-5; FSU: Warrick 6-163, Dugans 5-99, Minnis 2-
25, Minor 2-23, Morgan 2-10, Chaney 2-5, Boldin 1-4.

The road to the 2000
Sugar Bowl and national championship took an unusual turn. Normally winding through campuses at
Lincoln, Happy Valley,
Gainesville and Tallahassee, last season the path wound its way into Blacksburg, Va.
Nestled between the Blue
Ridge and Allegheny
Mountains in scenic southwest Virginia,
Blacksburg became a hot spot for the national sports media as the Hokies finished the 1999 regular season 11-0 and ranked No. 2 in the nation in both major polls and, more importantly, in the
Bowl Championship Series
Ratings.
Not only will the Nokia
Sugar Bowl matchup with
Florida State live forever in
Hokie lore, but for Tech fans everywhere, memories of the undefeated 1999 regular season will certainly last a lifetime.
The atmosphere at Lane
Stadium/Worsham Field as
Tech put the finishing touches on its 11-0 season with a 38-14 win over Boston
College was electric. Coach
Frank Beamer and university president Dr. Paul Torgersen were carried to midfield, as was young quarterback
Michael Vick. Tech faithful tossed tiny white sugar cubes on the field in anticipation of the Hokies receiving a Sugar Bowl bid to play for the national championship. It would be
Tech’s seventh straight bowl game.
Beamer addressed the throng on the field and in the stands from midfield a few minutes after the game was over. He thanked the fans for their terrific support through what was surely a special season. The tenacious 1999 squad had run the table. The
Hokies won 11 games, including four lopsided victories over ranked teams, vaulted to No. 2 in the national polls and won the
BIG EAST Conference championship. It was Tech’s first unbeaten and untied season since 1918.
Before the 1999 season began, there was reason to believe it might be a special year for Virginia Tech. The
Hokies received their highest preseason rankings ever, being picked No. 13 by The
Associated Press and No. 14 in the ESPN/ USA Today
Coaches’ Poll. Tech was coming off a surprising 9-3 year, which ended with the
Hokies storming to a convincing 38-7 victory over
Alabama in the inaugural
Music City Bowl. Recordcrushing season ticket sales in Blacksburg were further proof of the anticipation for the 1999 campaign.
The excitement was tempered by reminders of the recent past. Tech had jumped out to a 5-0 record amidst much hype in 1998, only to have its hopes dashed by an upset loss to Temple. The
Hokies’ three losses in ’98 came by a total of 10 points and each was decided late in the fourth quarter. The
Tech coaching staff and players would use those painful reminders as fuel to stay focused in 1999. Their goal was to take one game at a time, to prepare the same way for each opponent. The mantra each week for the Hokies was
“Preparing to Win Game No.
1, or 2, or 3 …” And that is exactly what they did — 11 games in a row.
Each game was filled with highlights and heroes.
There was Vick making a spectacular debut, rushing for three touchdowns in the
Hokies’ 47-0 win over James
Madison. The defense was the star for Tech in its 31-10
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Birmingham, setting a school record for fewest yards of total offense allowed by holding the
Blazers to 63 yards. Shyrone
Stith ran wild against
Clemson, amassing 162 yards and a touchdown in the 31-11 win in a national ESPN
Thursday night game. In that tight game against the Tigers, the defense forced two turnovers late in the fourth quarter, scoring on both of them to seal the victory.
André Davis made his name known in the Hokies’
31-7 victory over arch-rival
Virginia, catching two passes for 110 yards, including a 60yard TD pass. Tech opened
BIG EAST Conference play in grand fashion, rolling past
Rutgers, 58-20, with Vick accounting for five first-half touchdowns, including two scoring passes to Ricky Hall.
The Hokies used a total team effort to improve to 6-0 with a
62-0 drubbing of Syracuse in front of ESPN and College
GameDay television crews.
Tech got touchdowns from its offense, defense and special teams and held the
Orangemen to 120 total yards in the rout.
After a weekend off, tailback André Kendrick and the then-No. 3 Hokies visited
Pittsburgh for one of the final games ever at storied Pitt
Stadium. Kendrick rushed for
162 yards to grind out Tech’s seventh win.
Tech took to the road again for what would prove to be the most exciting — and important
— game of the season against
West Virginia. Trailing by a point with 1:15 left, Vick led the Hokies’ offense down the field to set up Shayne
Graham’s game-winning, 44yard field goal as time expired.
The kick, which gave the
Hokies a 22-20 win, would keep Tech’s perfect season and national title hopes alive.
Getting past “Game No. 9” would be no easy feat for the
Hokies as No. 19 Miami came
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Corey Moore, who became Tech’s most honored football player following the 1999 season, harasses the Syracuse qurterback during the Hokies’ 62-0 win over the Orangemen.
to town. In front of another
ESPN audience and
GameDay crew, Tech scored
43 unanswered points to defeat the Hurricanes, 43-10.
Tech’s starting cornerbacks, both Florida natives, played big parts in the victory.
Anthony Midget had three interceptions and Ike Charlton recovered three fumbles, one of which he returned 51 yards for a touchdown.
Vick was phenomenal again in the Hokies’ 62-7 romp at Temple. He scored on spectacular runs of 53 and 75 yards and also threw two scoring strikes to Davis. Tech rushed for 315 yards in the game, while holding the Owls to minus-two on the ground.
Then, the Hokies were back in Blacksburg on Nov. 26 for the regular-season finale against Boston College and a chance for an undefeated campaign. Tech was in control of the game from the first whistle and racked up a season-high 555 yards of total offense. Vick threw three touchdown passes and ran for another, raising his passing efficiency rating to
180.4 — the best in the nation for the season, the best ever by a freshman, and the second-highest rating of all time. The defense played solidly, as it had all year, and the Hokies finished the regular season 11-0.
Tech took time off from practice after the regular season concluded and awaited the BCS Selection show, which aired Dec. 5.
While they weren’t active on the field, the Hokies were definitely raking in the awards off the field.
Corey Moore was the busiest, traveling to three cities in a four-day span. The senior defensive end picked up the Mike Fox/Bronko
Nagurski award on Mon., Dec.
6, in Charlotte, N.C. The award goes to the nation’s best defensive player as voted on by the College Football Writers of America. On Wednesday of that week, Moore was in
Houston to collect the
Lombardi Award as college football’s top lineman. The following day, he was in
Orlando, Fla., for the Home
Depot College Football Awards
Show. He also was named the
BIG EAST Defensive Player of the Year for the second time in as many years and won the
Dudley Award as the top college player in Virginia.
Moore was voted Football
News’ Defensive Player of the
Year and became just the second unanimous All-
American in school history.
Big accolades came for
Vick, too. The lefty was voted the BIG EAST Offensive
Player and Rookie of the Year.
He was invited to New York as one of five finalists for the
Heisman Trophy and finished third in the voting for the award. He was voted The
Sporting News ’ first-team All-
America quarterback and was listed as the publication’s
Freshman of the Year.
Coach Frank Beamer earned eight prestigious
National Coach of the Year awards. The Associated Press also honored four Tech players on its All-America team, naming Moore first team and
Vick, defensive end John
Engelberger and linebacker
Jamel Smith to the second team.
The Hokies had 15 players named to the first and second
All-BIG EAST teams, the most in league history. Tech also became the first BIG EAST school to sweep all the league’s major awards in one season. In addition to the awards won by Moore and
Vick, Graham was named the
Special Teams Player of the
Year, while Frank Beamer was named the Coach of the Year.
Beamer also was the featured speaker at the Heisman Award banquet.

Win #1:
BLACKSBURG, Va. —
Redshirt freshman quarterback
Michael Vick rushed for three touchdowns in the first half as
Virginia Tech ran to a 47-0 victory in its 1999 season opener against James Madison at Lane Stadium/Worsham
Field.
A sellout crowd of 51,907 looked on as Vick ran 3, 54 and
7 yards for TDs before leaving the game with an ankle injury.
The Hokies went on to add three more rushing touchdowns in the second half on the way to a total of 274 yards on the ground. Tailback Shyrone Stith led the way with 122 yards on
18 carries. Tech's balanced attack also produced 202 yards through the air.
Tech's highly-rated defense gave up several long plays, but still held the Dukes to just 210 yards of total offense. The
James Madison 0
Virginia Tech 14
0
12
0
14
Michael Vick scores from 54 yards out for one of his three TDs against JMU.
Hokie defense came up with six quarterback sacks, an interception and a safety. Tech also limited JMU to just one successful third-down conversion in 13 tries.
Sept. 4, 1999 • Blacksburg, Va
Lane Stadium/Worsham Field • Att.: 51,907
0 — 0
7 — 47
VT (7:01 re 1st) — Vick 3 run (Graham kick)
VT (4:41 re 1st) — Vick 54 run (Graham kick)
VT (10:42 re 2nd) — FG Graham 32
VT (7:18 re 2nd) — Vick 7 run (Graham kick)
VT (4:21 re 2nd) — team, safety
VT (8:56 re 3rd) — And. Davis 22 run (Graham kick)
VT (3:12 re 3rd) — Meyer 2 run (Graham kick)
VT (11:58 re 4th) — Kendrick 2 run (Graham kick)
☛ Virginia Tech's 47-0 season-opening victory against James Madison marked the first shutout in a season opener for a Tech football team since the 1953 season when the Hokies posted a 7-0 opening-game win versus Marshall. It was
Tech's widest opening-game victory margin since a 47-0 home win over Roanoke
College in the 1926 opener.
quarterbacks Jimmy Lugar,
Bob McCoy and Billy
Holsclaw combined for four rushing TDs in a 46-14 win over Richmond.
☛ André Davis
(Niskayuna, N.Y.) scored on a 22-yard flanker reverse against JMU. It was the first rushing touchdown by a
Tech receiver since Shawn
Scales scored on a 17-yard reverse against Virginia in the final regular-season game of the 1996 season.
Team Stats
First downs
Rushes-yds.
Passing yds.
Return yds.
Passes
Punts-avg.
Fumbles-lost
Penalties-yds.
Time of poss.
Sacks by
JMU
10
42-119
91
13
10-18-1
9-42
3-2
7-39
27:57
2-19
VT
19
55-274
202
113
12-22-0
5-45
1-1
6-50
32:03
6-46
Individual Leaders
Rushing — JMU, Keaton 14-
108, Joyce 10-24, Carson 7-23,
DeFilipo 1-(-6), Berry 10-(-30);
VT, Stith 18-122, Vick 4-54,
Kendrick 11-45, Davis 1-22,
Suggs 8-22, Ferguson 2-11,
Hawkins 3-10, Ward 1-2,
Burnell 3-2, Meyer 4-(-16).
Passing — JMU, Berry
9-17-1-71, DeFilippo 1-1-0-20;
VT, Vick 4-6-0-110, Meyer
7-14-0-82, Noel 1-2-0-10.
Receiving — JMU,
Payton 7-71, Fleshman 1-9,
Joyce 1-8, Griffin 1-3; VT,
Witten 3-25, Hall 2-66, Davis
2-51, Ferguson 1-24, Carter
1-15, Hawkins 1-11, Johnson
1-9, Stith 1-1.
☛ All six Tech touchdowns in the game came on the ground, but only one was scored by a running back.
The Hokies got four rushing
TDs from quarterbacks, one from a wide receiver and the last from a tailback. It marked the first time since 1956 that
Tech had gotten four rushing touchdowns in a game from the quarterback position.
During the '56 season, Tech
☛ Four Tech players made their first starts against
JMU. Split end Emmett
Johnson (Chesapeake, Va.), quarterback Michael Vick
(Newport News, Va.) and flanker André Davis were first-time starters on offense, while linebacker Ben Taylor
(Bellaire, Ohio) got his first start on defense.
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Win #2:
BLACKSBURG, Va. — Virginia Tech shook off five first-half turnovers and got another stellar performance from its defense to hand UAB a 31-10 loss before a sellout crowd at Lane Stadium/
Worsham Field.
Quarterback Dave Meyer, who started in place of injured starter Michael Vick, directed the Hokies to a 17-0 lead before a series of mistakes opened the door for 10 UAB points in the second quarter. Meyer was intercepted three times in the half, and the Hokies also lost a pair of fumbles.
Tech controlled the game in the second half with a stingy defense and ball-control offense. Tech's defensive unit limited the
Blazers to just 63 yards of total offense, including only 28 yards in the second half. UAB managed only five yards rushing during the final two quarters and totaled just 18 yards on the ground for the entire game.
The Hokies finally got some breathing room when tailback
André Kendrick threw a 35-yard touchdown pass to flanker André
Davis early in the fourth quarter.
UAB
Virginia Tech
Sept. 11, 1999 • Blacksburg, Va.
Lane Stadium/Worsham Field • Att.: 51,907
0 10
10 7
0 0 — 10
0 14 — 31
VT (12:52 re 1st) — Johnson 41 pass from Meyer (Graham kick)
VT (3:54 re 1st) — FG Graham 22
VT (9:44 re 2nd) — Stith 1 run (Graham kick)
UAB (3:50 re 2nd) — Coleman 29 pass from Dixon (Gallego kick)
UAB (0:38 re 2nd) — FG Arians 47
VT (13:43 re 4th) — Davis 35 pass from Kendrick (Graham kick)
VT (2:07 re 4th) — Suggs 1 run (Graham kick)
Team Stats
First downs
Rushes-yds.
Passing yds.
Return yds.
Passes
Punts-avg.
Fumbles-lost
Penalties-yds.
Time of poss.
Sacks by
UAB
8
27-18
45
18
10-26-1
9-48
2-1
10-78
23:59
3-7
VT
26
55-196
179
90
13-22-3
3-42
2-2
8-85
36:01
4-34
Individual Leaders
Rushing — UAB, Fair 13-35,
Coleman 6-9, Conley 1-2, Thatch
2-1, Dixon 5-(-29); VT, Stith 29-124,
Kendrick 12-49, Ferguson 5-24,
Suggs 3-3, Meyer 6-(-4).
Passing — UAB, Dixon
10-26-1-45; VT, Meyer 12-21-3-144,
Kendrick 1-1-0-35.
Receiving — UAB, Coleman
4-20, Thatch 3-0, Malone 1-15,
Arrington 1-5, Fair 1-5; VT, Davis
4-57, Johnson 3-62, Hall 3-43,
Ferguson 2-12, Parham 1-5
☛ Virginia Tech set a school mark for fewest yards of total offense allowed when it held UAB to just 63 overall yards.
The Blazers managed just 18 yards on the ground and 45 yards passing. The previous Tech record for fewest yards allowed was 65 against UAB in 1997.
☛ During its loss to Tech, UAB managed a total of just five offensive plays from scrimmage that gained more than five yards. The
Blazers had pass plays of 29 and 15 yards and runs of 14,
9 and 8 yards.
Emmett Johnson hauls in a 41-yard touchdown pass from Dave Meyer to get Tech on the board early against UAB.
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☛ When Tech tailback André
Kendrick (Lynchburg,
Va.) threw a 35-yard touchdown pass to
André Davis
(Niskayuna, N.Y.) in the
UAB game, it marked
Tech's first TD on a tailback pass since 1992. Tailback
Tony Kennedy threw a 49yard touchdown pass to
Steve Sanders in Tech's
1992 season opener against James Madison.
Kennedy attempted three passes that season, completing just one.
Kendrick is the first Tech tailback credited with a pass attempt since
Kennedy's final attempt of the '92 season against
Virginia.
☛ End Corey Moore
(Brownsville, Tenn.) had three quarterback sacks, two other tackles for loss, four QB hurries, one pass deflection and six total tackles during the UAB game.
☛ Sophomore split end
Emmett Johnson
(Chesapeake, Va.) and redshirt freshman tailback
Lee Suggs (Roanoke, Va.) posted their first collegiate touchdowns during the
UAB game.

Win #3:
BLACKSBURG, Va. — Virginia Tech defensive end Corey
Moore led the charge as the Hokies' defense scored two touchdowns in the final four minutes to secure a 31-11 win against Clemson in a national ESPN Thursday night game.
The capacity crowd at Lane Stadium/Worsham Field saw
Tech build a 14-0 lead with its running game, then rely on its defense to close the door. Clemson closed the gap to 14-11 in the fourth quarter when kicker Tony Lazzara took the snap on a fake field goal and passed to Vince Ciurciu for a touchdown. A two-point conversion pass cut the Hokies' lead to three.
Tech responded with a field goal, then put the game out of reach with a 34-yard interception return for a touchdown by cornerback Ike Charlton and a 32-yard fumble return for a TD by
Moore. Moore's touchdown capped a night that saw him contribute two quarterback sacks and two other tackles behind the line for a combined loss of 34 yards. The senior defender also forced the fumble he returned for a TD and hurried the passer five times.
Sept. 23, 1999 • Blacksburg, Va.
Lane Stadium/Worsham Field • Att.: 51,907
Clemson
Virginia Tech
0
7
3
7
0 8 — 11
0 17 — 31
VT (1:12 re 1st) — Stith 3 run (Graham kick)
VT (14:12 re 2nd) — Kendrick 24 run (Graham kick)
CU (5:36 re 2nd) — FG Campbell 27
CU (11:31 re 4th) — Ciurciu 9 pass from Lazzara (LeMay pass fr Streeter)
VT (5:00 re 4th) — FG Graham 47
VT (3:09 re 4th) — Charlton 34 interception return (Graham kick)
VT (2:31 re 4th) — Moore 32 fumble return (Graham kick)
Team Stats
First downs
Rushes-yds.
Passing yds.
Return yds.
Passes
Punts-avg.
Fumbles-lost
Penalties-yds.
Time of poss.
Sacks by
CU
19
26-17
204
67
28-44-1
7-35
2-1
6-52
29:10
3-18
VT
21
51-286
88
73
7-17-3
2-36
2-1
8-75
30:50
5-39
Individual Leaders
Rushing — CU, Zachery 9-32,
Gardner 1-1, Wofford 2-(-3),
Streeter 13-(-12), Team 1-(-1); VT,
Stith 28-162, Vick 12-41, Kendrick
3-34, Ferguson 5-28, Hawkins 1-14,
Suggs 2-7.
Passing — CU, Streeter
27-43-1-195, Lazzara 1-1-0-9;
VT, Vick 7-16-3-88, Team 0-1-0-0.
Receiving — CU, Gardner
9-94, Wofford 7-41, Lawyer 5-19,
Watts 4-27, Zachery 1-13, Ciurciu
1-9, LeMay 1-1; VT, Davis 3-40,
Carter 1-21, Stith 1-13, Hall 1-8,
Kendrick 1-6
☛ Virginia Tech’s defense held Clemson to just 17 yards on the ground and 221 total yards. The Tigers entered the game averaging
397.5 yards of offense. The only Clemson touchdown of the game came on a fake field goal.
☛ Senior defensive end
Corey Moore (Brownsville,
Tenn.) scored the first touchdown of his Tech career when he forced a fumble with a sack of
Clemson quarterback
Brandon Streeter, then picked the ball up and raced
32 yards to the end zone.
☛ Cornerback Ike
Charlton's (Orlando, Fla.) 34yard interception return for a touchdown against Clemson marked the second TD return of the redshirt junior’s
Tech career. Charlton also had an interception for a touchdown in 1998 against
Rutgers.
All-American defensive end Corey Moore was flying around the football field making life miserable for Clemson.
☛ The Hokies’ two defensive touchdowns in the Clemson game marked the sixth time during Coach
Frank Beamer’s tenure at
Tech that the defense has contributed two TDs in a game.
☛ Redshirt junior
Shyrone Stith (Chesapeake,
Va.) ran for a career-high
162 yards on 28 carries, with 111 of those yards in the first half.
☛ Senior linebacker Jamel
Smith (Columbia, S.C.), the only player on the Tech roster from South Carolina, led the
Hokies in tackles against the
Tigers with 11. Smith had a quarterback sack and the night's hardest hit, a bonejarring tackle on Clemson wide receiver Brian Wofford.
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Win #4:
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — Quarterback Michael Vick passed for 222 yards, and tailback Shyrone Stith ran for three touchdowns as Virginia Tech regained the Commonwealth Cup with a 31-7 road win over No. 24 Virginia in front of the largest crowd ever to see a game at Scott Stadium.
Vick, playing in the first road game of his young career, hit flanker André Davis with a 60-yard touchdown pass to stake the
Hokies to an early lead. The redshirt freshman set up three more first-half TDs with passes of 32 yards to Ricky Hall, 25 yards to
Stith and 50 yards to Davis. Stith capped each of those drives with short touchdown runs to put Tech on top 28-7 at halftime.
The Cavaliers managed just one scoring drive against Tech's top-ranked defense. Virginia gained 80 of its 213 total yards on a second-quarter drive that resulted in a 1-yard TD pass on a fourthand-goal situation. The Cavs managed just 51 yards on the ground.
Stith contributed 85 of his 113 yards in the second half as Tech controlled the clock and the game. The Hokies finished the game with 424 yards of total offense, with 202 on the ground and 222 in the air.
Virginia Tech
Virginia
Oct. 2, 1999 • Charlottesville, Va.
Scott Stadium • Att.: 51,800
VT (9:15 re 1st) — Davis 60 pass from Vick (Graham kick)
VT (2:21 re 1st) — Stith 1 run (Graham kick)
UVa (12:20 re 2nd) — Baber 1 pass from Ellis (Braverman kick)
VT (7:09 re 2nd) — Stith 1 run (Graham kick)
VT (3:32 re 2nd) — Stith 2 run (Graham kick)
VT (5:11 re 3rd) — FG Graham 48
Team Stats
First downs
Rushes-yds.
Passing yds.
Return yds.
Passes
Punts-avg.
Fumbles-lost
Penalties-yds.
Time of poss.
Sacks by
14 14
0 7
3
0
VT
18
50-202
222
UVa
15
37-51
162
59 63
7-9-0 16-26-0
5-38
2-1
9-40
0-0
4-20
28:39
6-45
7-29
31:21
2-5
0 — 31
0 — 7
Individual Leaders
Rushing — VT, Stith 23-113,
Kendrick 10-41, Vick 10-40,
Ferguson 3-6, Hawkins 2-2, Parham
1-0, Meyer 1-0; UVa, Jones 23-83,
Harris 2-2, Southern 1-1,
Ellis 11-(-35).
Passing — VT, Vick 7-9-0-222;
UVa, Ellis 16-26-0-162.
Receiving — VT, Davis 2-110,
Hall 1-32, Stith 1-25, Parham 1-22,
Hawkins 1-19, Wynn 1-14; UVa,
Dotson 4-70, McMullen 3-32,
Hawkins 3-20, Coffey 2-20,
Southern 1-12, Jones 1-4, Mason
1-3, Baber 1-1.
Shyrone Stith ran over and around the Cavaliers for 113 yards in the Hokies’ 31-7 victory in Charlottesville.
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☛ Tech redshirt junior tailback Shyrone Stith
(Chesapeake, Va.) ran for
113 yards on 23 carries against Virginia to become the first Tech player on record to open a season with four consecutive 100-yard rushing games. Stith is the first player to run for 100 yards or more in four consecutive games during
Frank Beamer's tenure as the head coach. The last
Tech player to put together four straight 100-yard rushing games was fullback Mickey
Fitzgerald, who did it during the last four games of the
1977 season. Fitzgerald ran for over 100 yards in consecutive games against
Florida State, West Virginia,
Wake Forest and VMI.
☛ Shyrone Stith established a personal best with three rushing touchdowns against Virginia.
Stith became the second
Tech player to rush for three
TDs in a game during the ’99 season. Quarterback Michael
Vick (Newport News, Va.) had three rushing touchdowns in the Hokies' opening game against
James Madison. The last time Tech had two different players post three rushing touchdowns in games during the same season was 1985. That year, Eddie
Hunter ran for three touchdowns against William
& Mary and Maurice
Willliams ran for three versus Louisville.
☛ The Tech defense held
UVa to just 51 yards on the ground. That marked the
Cavaliers' lowest rushing total against Tech since
1982 when they managed only 10 rushing yards in a
21-14 loss at Blacksburg.
☛ Redshirt sophomore defensive tackle Chad
Beasley (Gate City, Va.) made his first collegiate start in the Virginia game.
Beasley made the most of his opportunity, posting three tackles, one assist, a quarterback hurry and a sack that resulted in a 12yard loss.

Win #5:
NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. — Virginia Tech opened BIG EAST
Conference play by scoring touchdowns on seven of its eight first-half possessions for a resounding 58-20 league victory at
Rutgers.
Redshirt freshman quarterback Michael Vick passed for four touchdowns and ran for another in just one half of play to lead a
Tech offense that piled up 511 yards. Vick hit flanker André
Davis with a 74-yard touchdown pass on the first offensive play of the game and went on to tie a school single-game record for touchdown passes by an individual. Both Davis and split end
Ricky Hall were on the receiving end of two Vick touchdown passes.
Tech’s defense posted five sacks but gave up a season high for points.
Oct. 9, 1999 • New Brunswick, N.J.
Rutgers Stadium • Att.: 30,764
Virginia Tech
Rutgers
14 35
14 0
7
0
2 — 58
6 — 20
VT (14:42 re 1st) — Davis 74 pass from Vick (Graham kick)
RU (10:27 re 1st) — McMahon 12 run (Barone kick)
VT (6:35 re 1st) — Ferguson 20 run (Graham kick)
RU (5:22 re 1st) — Smith 36 pass from McMahon (Barone kick)
VT (12:07 re 2nd) — Davis 13 pass from Vick (Graham kick)
VT (7:39 re 2nd) — Stith 2 run (Graham kick)
VT (3:39 re 2nd) — Hall 36 pass from Vick (Graham kick)
VT (1:40 re 2nd) — Vick 22 run (Graham kick)
VT (0:26 re 2nd) — Hall 5 pass from Vick (Graham kick)
VT (6:21 re 3rd) — Kendrick 10 run (Graham kick)
RU (4:36 re 4th) — Stanton 11 run (kick blocked)
VT (4:36 re 4th) — Whitaker defensive PAT return
Team Stats
First downs
Rushes-yds.
Passing yds.
Return yds.
Passes
Punts-avg.
Fumbles-lost
Penalties-yds.
Time of poss.
Sacks by
VT
20
44-222
289
81
15-16-0
3-33
2-2
6-53
29:31
5-38
Individual Leaders
Rushing — VT, Vick 8-68,
Stith 15-59, Ferguson 5-40,
RU
15
43-153
174
5
9-27-0
6-38
1-1
6-30
30:29
1-3
Kendrick 8-34, Suggs 7-21,
Hawkins 1-0; RU, Thomas 5-55,
Crooks 13-54, Barnes 10-33,
Stanton, 3-18, Sinclair 2-7,
McMahon 5-2, Jones 5-(-16).
Passing — VT, Vick
11-12-0-248, Meyer 4-4-0-41;
RU, McMahon 3-10-0-67, Jones
6-17-0-107.
Receiving — VT, Hall 5-73,
Davis 4-157, Witten 3-30, Wynn
1-13, Slowikowski, 1-9, Parham
1-7; RU, Smith 2-63, Crooks
2-29, Lovelace 2-7, Ring 1-39,
Martin 1-26, Johnson 1-10.
☛ Virginia Tech tied BIG
EAST records for scoring in a half (49) and a quarter
(35) during the Rutgers game. Miami had 49 points in the first half of a 1995 game against Rutgers. The
Hurricanes also had a 35point quarter on two occasions — against
Rutgers in '95 and versus
San Diego State in 1992.
Both scoring figures were modern day records (since
1950) for a Tech football team.
☛ Quarterback Michael
Vick (Newport News, Va.) enjoyed a record-setting performance against Rutgers, and he did it all in just one half of play. Vick became the first Tech quarterback on record to pass for four touchdowns in a half and to account for five TDs in both a half and a game. Vick's four touchdown passes also tied the school single-game mark for TD passes by an individual, which was set by
Don Strock in 1972 and equalled by Maurice
Ricky Hall, who scored on two pass receptions against the
Scarlet Knights, heads up the sideline with a punt return.
DeShazo twice during the
1993 season. Vick, who was
11-for-12 passing, set a BIG
EAST record for completion percentage (.917) in a game.
was the highest for a Tech receiver since Freeman had
194 yards in a 1993 game with Temple.
☛ Redshirt sophomore flanker André Davis
(Niskayuna, N.Y.) posted 157 yards receiving on four catches versus Rutgers. His yardage total tied him for the fifth best single-game total in school history. Former Tech great Antonio Freeman had
157 yards receiving against
Rutgers in 1992. Davis' total
☛ Tech registered its first blocked kick of the year when tackle Carl Bradley
(Lynchburg, Va.) blocked an extra-point kick during the fourth quarter. Ronyell
Whitaker (Norfolk, Va.) returned the block for a twopoint defensive conversion. It was just the second two-point defensive extra point in Tech history.
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Win #6:
BLACKSBURG, Va. — Virginia Tech got a total team effort on the way to an eye-opening 62-0 BIG EAST victory against Syracuse at jam-packed Lane Stadium/Worsham Field. A sell-out crowd of
53,130 watched as the Hokies ran their record to 6-0 for the first time since 1967.
Tech got touchdowns from its offense, defense and special teams in posting its biggest winning margin since 1922. The defense got things rolling when cornerback Anthony Midget forced a Syracuse fumble and rover Cory Bird grabbed the ball in mid-air and raced 26 yards for a touchdown. The defense added another score in the fourth quarter and limited the Syracuse offense to just
120 total yards.
Tailback Shyrone Stith rushed for 140 yards and two TDs as the Hokies piled up 411 yards of total offense.
☛ Virginia Tech’s 62-0 win over Syracuse tied a record for the largest margin of victory by a BIG EAST team, matching Rutgers’ 62-
0 win over Temple on Oct. 2,
1993. The winning margin was the largest for Tech since a 73-0 victory against
Catholic University in 1922 and the largest ever for the
Hokies against a team ranked in the Associated
Press poll. It also was the second-largest margin of victory by any team over a team ranked in the AP poll.
Previously, Tech’s biggest victory margin against a team ranked by AP was a
35-6 win over No. 20 North
Carolina State at Norfolk,
Va., in 1956.
☛ Redshirt sophomore flanker André Davis (Niskayuna,
N.Y.) ran 28 yards for a touchdown on a reverse against
Syracuse. It was Davis’ second career carry and his second career rushing TD. He also scored on a 22-yard reverse against James
Madison in Tech’s
’99 season opener. The last
Tech wide receiver to rush for two touchdowns in a season was
Donnie Reel, who had two rushing
TDs during the
1971 season.
Syracuse
Virginia Tech
Oct. 16, 1999 • Blacksburg, Va.
Lane Stadium/Worsham Field • Att.: 53,130
0 0 0 0 — 0
14 17 17 14 — 62
VT (7:26 re 1st) — Bird 26 fumble return (Graham kick)
VT (2:24 re 1st) — Stith 1 run (Graham kick)
VT (12:58 re 2nd) — Hall 8 pass from Vick (Graham kick)
VT (6:13 re 2nd) — Stith 1 run (Graham kick)
VT (0:23 re 2nd) — FG Graham 25
VT (13:01 re 3rd) — FG Graham 37
VT (10:08 re 3rd) — Kendrick 7 run (Graham kick)
VT (1:34 re 3rd) — Davis 28 run (Graham kick)
VT (4:56 re 4th) — Summers 43 interception return (Graham kick)
VT (2:33 re 4th) — Butler fumble recovery in end zone (Graham kick)
Team Stats
First downs
Rushes-yds.
Passing yds.
Return yds.
Passes
Punts-avg.
Fumbles-lost
Penalties-yds.
Time of poss.
Sacks by
SU
7
37-77
43
-3
6-22-2
9-41
3-3
7-69
26:52
2-20
VT
20
59-276
135
106
8-17-0
6-50
1-0
4-39
33:08
2-12
Individual Leaders
Rushing — SU, Mungro 10-74,
Brown 9-28, Walker 5-16, Scott 2-1,
Johnson 2-0, Nunes 2-(-1),
Williams 3-(-4), Woodcock 1-(-7),
Shafer 1-(-14), Team 2-(-16); VT,
Stith 22-140, Kendrick 10-65, Davis
1-28, Suggs 7-19, Ferguson 4-15,
Vick 12-6, Briggs 1-2, Hawkins 2-1.
Passing — SU, Williams
3-13-1-39, Nunes 3-9-1-4; VT,
Vick 8-16-0-135, Meyer 0-1-0-0.
Receiving — SU, Brown 2-14,
Minter 1-15, Spotwood 1-6,
Woodcock 1-6, Johnson 1-2; VT,
Hall 2-13, Wynn 1-30, Davis 1-23,
Carter 1-19, Parham 1-19, Hawkins
1-18, Johnson 1-13.
☛ Three Tech players registered their first collegiate touchdowns in the
Syracuse game. Starting rover back Cory Bird (Mays
Landing, N.J.) returned a fumble 26 yards for a TD, while his backup, Phillip
Summers (Clewiston, Fla.), scored on a 43-yard interception return. Special teams starter/outside linebacker Tee Butler
(Plainsboro, N.J.) posted his first Tech touchdown when he recovered a fumble by
SU punter Mike Shafer in the end zone.
☛ With starting center Keith Short and No. 2 center
Tim Schnecker out with injuries, walk-on Steve
DeMasi (Virginia
Beach, Va.) made his first Tech start against SU and played every offensive snap.
John Engelberger
(96) and other
Hokie defenders converge on a
Syracuse ball carrier in Tech’s
62-0 shutout of the Orangemen.
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Win #7:
PITTSBURGH, Pa. — The Pittsburgh Panthers posted some impressive passing statistics against the No. 3-ranked Hokies at
Pitt Stadium, but in the end it was Tech's ground attack that won the war in a 30-17 BIG EAST road victory.
Tech piled up 211 first-half rushing yards on the way to a 27-
7 halftime advantage that the upset-minded Panthers could never overcome. Pittsburgh passed on 51 of its 80 offensive plays and amassed 427 yards through the air, a season-high against the Hokies. But by the end of the night all the Panthers' air miles produced just one passing touchdown and led to a total of only 17 points.
Quarterback Michael Vick got the Hokies going with a 46yard touchdown run less than five minutes into the game and guided the team on three key second-quarter scoring drives.
Tailback André Kendrick sparked the running game with a career-best 162 yards. Tech finished with 295 yards rushing and
465 total yards. The Hokies used nine sacks to hold Pittsburgh to minus-12 yards rushing.
Oct. 30, 1999 • Pittsburgh, Pa.
Pitt Stadium • Att.: 42,678
Virginia Tech
Pittsburgh
10 17
0 7
0
7
3 — 30
3 — 17
VT (10:48 re 1st) — Vick 46 run (Graham kick)
VT (1:33 re 1st) — FG Graham 46
P (14:09 re 2nd) — Goings 1 run (Lotz kick)
VT (10:53 re 2nd) — Davis 37 pass from Vick (Graham kick)
VT (3:41 re 2nd) — Stith 9 run (Graham kick)
VT (0:07 re 3rd) — FG Graham 32
P (12:02 re 3rd) — Bryant 16 pass from Priestley (Lotz kick)
P (14:47 re 4th) — FG Lotz 23
VT (11:09 re 4th) — FG Graham 52
Team Stats
First downs
Rushes-yds.
Passing yds.
Return yds.
Passes
Punts-avg.
Fumbles-lost
Penalties-yds.
Time of poss.
Sacks by
VT
3
10-17-0
4-42
1-0
7-53
28:47
9-60
P
21 25
46-295 29-(-12)
170 427
0
29-51-0
6-34
3-0
6-55
31:13
2-12
Individual Leaders
Rushing — VT, Kendrick
16-162, Vick 11-70, Stith 14-65,
Hawkins 1-3, Ferguson 2-0, Team
2-(-5); P, Goings 13-31, Feola 3-17,
Cox 2-(-1), Team 1- (-1), Turman
1-(-6), Priestley 9-(-52).
Passing — VT, Vick 10-17-0-
170; P, Priestley 28-46-0-407,
Turman 1-5-0-20.
Receiving — VT, Davis 5-93,
Hall 2-23, Wynn 1-35, Slowikowski
1-14, Parham 1-5; P, Bryant
13-215, Grim 12-188, McMullen
2-12, Goings 2-12.
☛ Virginia Tech held
Pittsburgh to minus-12 yards rushing, but gave up a season-high 427 yards passing. The Panther’s rushing total was the lowest against Tech in a
BIG EAST game. Their passing total was the second-highest versus the
Hokies in a league game.
Boston College had 448 yards passing against
Tech during the 1993 season.
☛ Pittsburgh was the first team to score points on
Tech in the third quarter of play during the ’99 season.
☛ André Kendrick
(Lynchburg, Va.), Tech’s
No. 2 tailback, turned in his first career 100-yard rushing game during the win over the Panthers. Kendrick carried 16 times for 162 yards. His 59-yard scamper in the second quarter was the longest run from scrimmage of his career.
André Kendrick pulls away from a Panther defender for some of his 162 yards rushing against Pittsburgh.
☛ Quarterback Michael
Vick (Newport News, Va.) registered his fifth rushing touchdown of the year on a
46-yard run during the
Pittsburgh game. He became the first Tech quarterback to rush for five TDs in a season since 1981 when Steve
Casey ran for six.
☛ Tech blocked its first punt of the season in the first quarter of the Pittsburgh game when André Davis
(Niskayuna, N.Y.) blocked the Panthers' first attempt of the game. Tech blocked more kicks against
Pittsburgh (7) than against any other team during the
1990s.
☛ Place-kicker Shayne
Graham (Dublin, Va.) booted a 52-yard field goal in the
Pittsburgh game — his longest ever in a BIG EAST game and the secondlongest of his Tech career.
Graham kicked a 53-yarder at Clemson in 1998. His previous best in a league game was 49 yards against
Syracuse in ’98 at the
Carrier Dome.
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Win #8:
MORGANTOWN, W.Va — Shayne Graham kicked a 44-yard field goal as time expired to give Virginia Tech a heart-stopping
22-20 BIG EAST victory at West Virginia.
Tech held a seemingly comfortable 19-7 lead following a 6yard touchdown run by Shyrone Stith with just 4:59 remaining in the game. That was not the case, however, as WVU backup quarterback Brad Lewis tossed a pair of touchdown passes within a two-minute span to rally the Mountaineers to a 20-19 lead with just 1:15 left.
Luckily for the Hokies, redshirt freshman quarterback Michael
Vick saved some magic of his own for the final 75 seconds. With
Tech starting at its own 15-yard line with no timeouts, Vick drove the Hokies to the WVU 27, turning in a stunning 26-yard run in the process. Graham took care of business from there.
Tech outgained WVU in total offense 469 yards to 299. The
Hokies benefited from six quarterback sacks, including three by
Corey Moore and two from John Engelberger.
Virginia Tech
West Virginia
Nov. 6, 1999 • Morgantown, W.Va.
Mountaineer Field • Att.: 56,906
0
0
7
7
5 10 — 22
0 13 — 20
VT (7:05 re 2nd) — Kendrick 46 run (Graham kick)
WVU (0:49 re 2nd) — Ivy 6 pass from Bulger (Taylor kick)
VT (10:51 re 3rd) — FG Graham 20
VT (0:48 re 3rd) — team, safety
VT (4:59 re 4th) — Stith 6 run (Graham kick)
WVU (3:15 re 4th) — Porter 4 pass from Lewis (Taylor kick)
WVU (1:15 re 4th) — Ivy 18 pass from Lewis (pass failed)
VT (0:00 re 4th) — FG Graham 44
Team Stats
First downs
Rushes-yds.
Passing yds.
Return yds.
Passes
Punts-avg.
Fumbles-lost
Penalties-yds.
Time of poss.
Sacks by
VT
17
39-214
255
16
14-31-0
8-38
1-1
6-50
30:11
6-45
WVU
18
40-107
192
1
19-38-0
9-47
2-0
9-63
29:49
1-10
Individual Leaders
Rushing — VT, Stith 21-84,
Kendrick 6-71, Vick 9-50, Ferguson
2-8, Hawkins 1-1; WVU, Cobourne
27-133, Rego 2-10, Lewis 8-(-15),
Bulger 3- (-21).
Passing — VT, Vick
14-30-0-255, Team 0-1-0-0;
WVU, Bulger 10-21-0-94, Lewis
9-16-0-98, Team 0-1-0-0.
Receiving — VT, Davis 5-138,
Hall 4-50, Ferguson 2-12, Wynn
1-29, Parham 1-14, Johnson 1-12;
WVU, Ivy 7-79, Becht 3-43,
Cobourne 3-24, Porter 3-24, S.
Terry 1-8, Rego 1-8, Abraham 1-6.
Shayne Graham’s last-second field goal lifted Virginia Tech over
West Virginia, 22-20, and kept the Hokies’ national championship hopes alive.
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☛ Virginia Tech’s last-second 22-20 win at West Virginia on a 44-yard
Shayne Graham field goal marked the Hokies' first win on the last play of the game in Frank
Beamer’s 13 seasons. The last time Tech won on the last play was in the 1986 Peach
Bowl when kicker
Chris Kinzer booted a 40-yard field goal to give the Hokies a
25-24 victory over
North Carolina
State. Ironically, both Kinzer and
Graham played high school football at
Pulaski County (Va.)
High School.
☛ When West
Virginia scored two touchdowns late in the final quarter to take a 20-19 lead, it marked the first time all season that Tech had trailed in a game.
☛ Tech failed to score in the first quarter of play against
WVU, breaking a string of 16 straight games in which it had scored points in the first quarter of play.
☛ The Tech offense registered over 400 yards of offense for the fifth straight game, but scored a seasonlow 22 points. The game ended the Hokies’ schoolrecord string of 10 consecutive games with 30 or more points.
☛ Shyrone Stith
(Chesapeake, Va.) scored on a
6-yard run against the
Mountaineers, marking the seventh consecutive game in which he had run for at least one TD.
☛ Tech registered its second safety of the year during the WVU game. The
Hokies’ other safety came against JMU. The last time
Tech had two safeties in a season was 1966.

Win #9:
BLACKSBURG, Va. — Virginia Tech scored 43 unanswered points to defeat No. 19 Miami, 43-10, before a capacity crowd and a national ESPN audience. It was Tech's fifth straight win over UM.
Tech spotted the Hurricanes 10 points before gradually taking control of the game with some big plays and stellar defensive performances. A 41-yard touchdown run by tailback
Shyrone Stith put the Hokies ahead for good in the second quarter and a 64-yard punt return for a TD by Ricky Hall helped break the game open early in the final quarter. Twenty-four seconds after Hall's touchdown, Tech scored again when defensive end Corey Moore forced a fumble that was returned
51 yards for a touchdown by Ike Charlton.
Miami, which entered the game ranked second nationally in turnover margin, lost three fumbles and tossed three pass interceptions against the Hokies. Tech turned those miscues into
24 points.
☛ Virginia Tech’s 43-10 win over Miami produced the widest victory margin in the series by either team. Tech's first four wins against UM came by a total of 29 points.
☛ When Tech trailed 10-0 in the first quarter against
Miami, it was the Hokies’ biggest deficit of the season.
The only previous deficit for the Hokies in ’99 had been one point against WVU in the fourth quarter of a 22-20 win.
Miami
Virginia Tech
Nov. 13, 1999 • Blacksburg, Va.
Lane Stadium/Worsham Field • Att.: 53,130
10
7
0
7
0 0 — 10
6 23 — 43
UM (11:44 re 1st) — FG Crosland 28
UM (4:35 re 1st) — King 7 pass from Kelly (Crosland kick)
VT (0:17 re 1st) — Stith 1 run (Graham kick)
VT (7:08 re 2nd) — Stith 41 run (Graham kick)
VT (5:03 re 3rd) — FG Graham 42
VT (0:24 re 3rd) — FG Graham 28
VT (13:39 re 4th) — Hall 64 punt return (Graham kick)
VT (13:15 re 4th) — Charlton 51 fumble return (kick blocked)
VT (10:27 re 4th) — FG Graham 42
VT (7:45 re 4th) — Davis fumble rec. in end zone (Graham kick)
Team Stats
First downs
Rushes-yds.
Passing yds.
Return yds.
Passes
Punts-avg.
Fumbles-lost
Penalties-yds.
Time of poss.
Sacks by
UM
18
40-126
183
6
14-34-3
8-37
4-3
6-46
27:10
2-13
VT
18
50-248
151
153
11-23-0
6-33
5-2
4-50
32:50
5-44
Individual Leaders
Rushing — UM, Portis 27-139,
McPartland 1-10, Moss 1-7, Payton
1-0, Team 1-(-1), Dorsey 2-(-9),
Kelly 7-(-20); VT, Stith 16-78,
Kendrick 8-66, Vick 14-46, Hawkins
2-31, Suggs 8-30, Ferguson 1-0,
Team 1-(-3).
Passing — UM, Kelly 8-17-2-
138, Dorsey 6-17-1-45; VT, Vick
11-23-0- 151.
Receiving — UM, King 4-31,
Moss 4-25, Franks 3-55, McPartland
2-21, Wayne 1-51; VT, Johnson
3-44, Parham 3-26, Hall 2-37,
Carter 1-20, Wynn 1-15, Stith 1-9.
☛ Tech starting cornerbacks Ike Charlton and
Anthony Midget, who both hailed from Florida, contributed big performances against the
'Canes. Charlton (Orlando) posted eight tackles, recovered three fumbles — one of which he returned 51 yards for a touchdown — and caused another fumble.
Meanwhile, Midget (Clewiston) tied a school and BIG EAST
Conference single-game mark by intercepting three passes.
He also contributed four tackles and broke up another pass.
☛ Tech’s Ricky Hall
(Chester, Va.) returned a punt
64 yards for a touchdown against UM. It was the Hokies’ first punt return for a TD since
1995 when Bryan Still had a
60-yard return for a score against Texas in the Sugar
Bowl. The last Tech player to return a punt for a touchdown in a regular-season game was
Antonio Freeman who had an
80-yard TD return against
Pittsburgh in 1994.
Tech defenders Ike Charlton (3, returning a fumble recovery above) and Anthony
Midget (9) each had huge nights for the Hokies against Miami.
2000 Virginia Tech Football 173

Win #10:
PHILADELPHIA, Pa. — Quarterback Michael Vick rushed for two touchdowns and passed for two touchdowns as Virginia Tech clinched at least a tie for the BIG EAST Championship with a 62-7 win over Temple at Veterans Stadium.
Tech, which was upset by Temple in Blacksburg in 1998, spotted the Owls a touchdown before scoring 62 unanswered points. Vick got the Hokies started with a 53-yard scoring run on the team’s second offensive play. He added a 75-yard touchdown run and scoring passes of 65 and 30 yards before the day was done.
The Hokies rushed for a season-high 315 yards in the game and equalled their season-high for total offense with 511 yards.
The Owls managed just 224 total yards. Tech limited Temple to minus-2 yards rushing for the game.
Virginia Tech
Temple
Nov. 20, 1999 • Philadelphia, Pa.
Veterans Stadium • Att.: 25,822
10 17 21 14 — 62
7 0 0 0 — 7
TU (11:50 re 1st) — Godfrey 2 run (Poklemba kick)
VT (10:49 re 1st) — Vick 53 run (Graham kick)
VT (0:38 re 1st) — FG Graham 28
VT (14:50 re 2nd) — Austin 31 interception return (Graham kick)
VT (2:25 re 2nd) — Davis 65 pass from Vick (Graham kick)
VT (0:06 re 2nd) — FG Graham 34
VT (9:51 re 3rd) — Vick 75 run (Graham kick)
VT (4:43 re 3rd) — Davis 30 pass from Vick (Graham kick)
VT (2:05 re 3rd) — Kendrick 20 run (Graham kick)
VT (14:48 re 4th) — Kendrick 3 run (Graham kick)
VT (8:38 re 4th) — Suggs 2 run (Graham kick)
Team Stats
First downs
Rushes-yds.
Passing yds.
Return yds.
Passes
Punts-avg.
Fumbles-lost
Penalties-yds.
Time of poss.
Sacks by
VT
20
53-315
196
57
9-12-2
1-19
0-0
5-35
30:06
4-45
TU
10
28-(-2)
226
0
19-37-2
9-37
3-1
10-91
29:54
3-23
Individual Leaders
Rushing — VT, Vick 12-134,
Stith 17-75, Kendrick 9-50, Suggs
9-34, Burnell 4-12, Hawkins 1-6,
Ferguson 1-4; TU, Godfrey 11-30,
McKie 6-17, Jackson 1-0, Sharps
3-(-4), Ringwelski 1-(-12), Scott
5-(-16), DeVito 1-(-17).
Passing — VT, Vick 7-10-2-
171, Meyer 2-2-0-25; TU, Scott
12-23-1-152, DeVito 7-13-1-74,
Harvey 0-1-0-0.
Receiving — VT, Davis
4-121, Hall 1-26, Slowikowski
1-24, Carter 1-17, Johnson 1-7,
Suggs 1-1; TU, Khamis 5-61,
Johnson 4-47, Wallace 2-66,
Dillard 2-22, Godfrey 2-8, Stubbs
1-12, Muckerson 1-9, Leftwich
1-1, Sharps 1-0.
André Davis hauls in one of two touchdown passes he caught against Temple in Veterans Stadium.
174 2000 Virginia Tech Football
☛ Redshirt freshman quarterback Michael Vick
(Newport News, Va.) rushed for 134 yards in Tech's 62-7 win over Temple. Vick's rushing total was the best for a Tech quarterback in a game since 1975 when Phil Rogers ran for 168 yards in a win over Houston in the
Astrodome. Rogers spent his first three seasons at Tech as a halfback before moving to quarterback for the majority of the ’75 season. Vick’s 134 yards were the seventh-best single-game total for a Tech quarterback.
☛ Vick’s 75-yard TD run in the Temple game was the longest run by a Tech quarterback since Al Clark sprinted 81 yards for a touchdown at Rutgers in the
1997 season opener. Vick’s run was the fifth-longest run on record for a quarterback at
Tech. The run also stood as the longest by a BIG EAST player in 1999.
☛ Larry Austin (Norfolk,
Va.), a redshirt sophomore cornerback, scored his first collegiate TD on a 31-yard pass interception return. Austin became the 28th different Tech player to score on defense during Frank Beamer’s 13 seasons as the coach. The
Hokies have scored 38 defensive TDs under Beamer.
☛ Ricky Hall (Chester, Va.) had 28 yards on punt returns against the Owls to up his season total for punt return yards to 489 yards — a new
Tech record. The old season mark of 467 yards was set by
Antonio Freeman in ’94. Hall finished the season with 510 yards.
☛ Shayne Graham (Dublin,
Va.) connected on all eight of his extra-point kicks in the
Temple game, giving him a
Tech season record 51 successful PAT kicks. The Tech senior surpassed the old mark of 48 set by Ryan Williams in
1993.

Win #11:
BLACKSBURG, Va. — Virginia Tech piled up a season-high
555 yards of total offense to complete its first-ever 11-0 regular season with a 38-14 BIG EAST Conference win over Boston
College.
A capacity crowd of 53,130 looked on as the Hokies used the arm of quarterback Michael Vick and the aggressiveness of their nationally-rated defense to secure their third BIG EAST championship. Vick tossed touchdown passes of 69 and 59 yards to André Davis in the first half as Tech built a 24-0 halftime advantage. The redshirt freshman added a 30-yard TD strike to fullback Cullen Hawkins and a 5-yard touchdown run in the fourth quarter to seal the victory.
Tech’s defense kept the pressure on the Eagles most of the game. Boston College managed 319 total yards, but 142 of those yards came on two plays — a 97-yard touchdown pass late in the third quarter and a 45-yard TD run with less than a minute remaining. The Hokies posted six sacks in the game, including three by redshirt junior Cory Bird and two by All-
American end Corey Moore.
Nov. 26, 1999 • Blacksburg, Va.
Lane Stadium/Worsham Field • Att.: 53,130
Boston College
Virginia Tech
0 0
7 17
7 7 — 14
0 14 — 38
VT (12:24 re 1st) — Stith 3 run (Graham kick)
VT (13:15 re 2nd) — Davis 69 pass from Vick (Graham kick)
VT (9:12 re 2nd) — Davis 59 pass from Vick (Graham kick)
VT (2:40 re 2nd) — FG Graham 40
BC (1:08 re 3rd) — Dewalt 97 pass from Hasselbeck (Matich kick)
VT (12:37 re 4th) — Hawkins 30 pass from Vick (Graham kick)
VT (3:27 re 4th) — Vick 5 run (Graham kick)
BC (0:46 re 4th) — Green 45 run (Matich kick)
Team Stats
First downs
Rushes-yds.
Passing yds.
Return yds.
Passes
Punts-avg.
Fumbles-lost
Penalties-yds.
Time of poss.
Sacks by
BC
13
39-181
138
0
6-21-0
6-45
3-0
10-86
27:13
5-41
VT
28
57-265
290
21
11-13-0
3-24
2-1
7-50
32:47
6-41
Individual Leaders
Rushing — BC, Washington
16-105, Green 6-64, St. Pierre 2-8,
Rowe 1-2, Hasselbeck 14-2; VT,
Stith 23-97, Vick 16-76, Ferguson
4-37, Kendrick 10-28, Davis 1-22,
Hawkins 1-7, Team 2-(-2).
Passing — BC, Hasselbeck
6-19-0-138, St. Pierre 0-2-0-0;
VT, Vick 11-13-0-290.
Receiving — BC, Arndt 4-28,
Dewalt 1-97, Washington 1-13;
VT, Davis 5-172, Carter 2-40, Hall
2-27, Hawkins 1-30, Wynn 1-21.
☛ Virginia Tech’s 38-14 victory over Boston
College gave the Hokies their first-ever 11-0 regularseason finish. It marked just the third time a Tech football team finished with an undefeated regularseason mark and only the second unbeaten, untied regular-season record for the Hokies. The 1954 Tech grid team posted an 8-0-1 record, while the 1918 squad was 7-0.
☛ The win gave Tech its second outright BIG EAST
Championship and it’s third overall. The Hokies won the title in 1995 and shared it with
Miami and Syracuse in 1996.
☛ Michael Vick (Newport
News, Va.) finished the game with 366 yards of total offense. The redshirt freshman quarterback’s offensive total was the fourthbest performance in school history. Vick passed for 290 yards during the game and
Fullback Jarrett Ferguson rushes for a first down in the
Hokies’ regular-season finale against Boston College.
added 76 yards on the ground. He also hit on 11 of
13 passes to finish the season with a Tech record
.592 completion percentage.
(962) and yards per reception (27.5).
☛ Sophomore receiver
André Davis (Niskayuna,
N.Y.) caught two touchdown passes against Boston
College, giving him a recordtying nine TD catches on the season. His total ties the mark set by Antonio
Freeman in 1993. Davis’ five catches for 172 yards in the
BC game also helped him set new Tech single-season marks for receiving yards
☛ Tech’s 555 yards of total offense helped it set a new school season mark for offensive yardage with
4,970. The Hokies averaged a record 6.56
yards per play for the season.
☛ The Tech defense had six sacks against BC upping its season total to
58. That set a BIG EAST mark for sacks in a season, surpassing the old record of 52 set by West Virginia.
2000 Virginia Tech Football 175

★ Bronko Nagurski Award
★ Lombardi Award
★ Football News Defensive Player of the Year
★ Associated Press First-Team All-American
★ AFCA First-Team All-American
★ Walter Camp Foundation First-Team All-American
★ Football Writers’ First-Team All-American
★ Football News First-Team All-American
★ Sporting News First-Team All-American
★ BIG EAST Defensive Player of the Year
★ ECAC Division I Player of the Year
★ Dudley Award (Virginia Player of the Year)
★ Unanimous First-Team All-BIG EAST Conference
★ ECAC Division I-A All-Star
★ VaSID Division I All-State
★ Associated Press Second-Team All-American
★ First-Team All-BIG EAST Conference
★ ECAC Division I-A All-Star
★ VaSID Division I All-State
★ Associated Press Second-Team All-American
★ Second-Team All-BIG EAST Conference
★ ECAC Division I-A All-Star
★ VaSID Division I All-State
★ Sporting News Third-Team All-American
★ First-Team All-BIG EAST Conference
★ VaSID Division I All-State
★ BIG EAST Special Teams Player of the Year
★ First-Team All-BIG EAST Conference
★ ECAC Division I-A All-Star
★ VaSID Division I All-State
★ First-Team All-BIG EAST Conference
★ VaSID Division I All-State
176 2000 Virginia Tech Football
★ First-Team All-BIG EAST Conference
★ ECAC Division I-A All-Star
★ First-Team All-BIG EAST Conference
★ Second-Team All-BIG EAST Conference
★ ECAC Division I-A All-Star
★ VaSID Division I All-State
★ Second-Team All-BIG EAST Conference
★ VaSID Division I All-State
★ Second-Team All-BIG EAST Conference
★ VaSID Division I All-State
★ Second-Team All-BIG EAST Conference
★ VaSID Division I All-State
★ Second-Team All-BIG EAST Conference
★ Second-Team All-BIG EAST Conference
★ VaSID Division I All-State

★ Went 10-1 as a starter in his first year at the helm, leading the Hokies
to the BCS National Championship game
★ Accounted for 322 yards of offense in the Nokia Sugar Bowl,
rushing for 97 yards and a TD and throwing for 225 yards
and a score on 15-of-29 passing against the top-ranked
Florida State Seminoles
★ Finished third in the voting for the 1999 Heisman Trophy,
equalling the highest finish ever by a freshman
★ First freshman invited to the Heisman Award ceremony
in 18 years
★ Winner of the inaugural Archie Griffin Award as the
College Football Player of the Year
★ Won an ESPY as the College Football Performer of the Year
★ Runner-up for The Associated Press Player of the Year
★ The Sporting News First-Team All-American
★ The Sporting News Freshman of the Year
★ The Associated Press Second-Team All-American
★ BCS Second-Team All-American
★ CBS SportsLine Second-Team All-American
★ One of 10 candidates for the Davey O’Brien Award,
given to the nation’s best quarterback
★ Football News First-Team Freshman All-American
★ Unanimous BIG EAST Offensive Player of the Year
Keep up with Michael Vick via the web hokie sportsinfo .com/vick
★ BIG EAST Rookie of the Year
★ First-team All-BIG EAST quarterback
★ The first player in Division I history to win a league’s Player of the Year Award (offensive,
defensive or special teams) in the same season he won Rookie of the Year
★ Virginia Sports Information Directors (VaSID) Division I All-State Player of the Year
★ Led the highest-scoring offense in Division I football
★ Led the nation in passing efficiency with a 180.4 rating, the second-highest rating of all time
★ Set an NCAA freshman record for passing efficiency
★ Set or tied four school passing records and one school total offense mark
★ Had a rushing play of 20 yards or more in 10 of the 11 games in which he played
2000 Virginia Tech Football 177

RECORD
All Games
Conference
Non-Conference
Date
Sept. 4, 1999
Sept. 11, 1999
Sept. 23, 1999
Oct. 2, 1999
Oct. 9, 1999
Oct. 16, 1999
Oct. 30, 1999
Nov. 6, 1999
Nov. 13, 1999
Nov. 20, 1999
Nov. 26, 1999
Jan. 4, 2000
Overall
11-1-0
7-0-0
4-1-0
Home
6-0-0
3-0-0
3-0-0
Opponent
JAMES MADISON
UAB
CLEMSON at Virginia at Rutgers*
SYRACUSE* at Pittsburgh* at West Virginia*
MIAMI* aW hW at Temple* aW
BOSTON COLLEGE* hW
Florida State § nL
W/L hW hW hW aW aW hW aW
Away
5-0-0
4-0-0
1-0-0
Neutral
0-1-0
0-0-0
0-1-0
Score Attend
47- 0 51,907
31- 10 51,907
31- 11 51,907
31- 7 51,800
58- 20 30,764
62- 0 53,130
30- 17 42,678
22- 20 56,906
43- 10 53,130
62- 7 25,822
38- 14 53,130
29- 46 79,280
* indicates BIG EAST Conference game
§ Nokia Sugar Bowl National Championship (does not affect statistics)
RUSHING
STITH, Shyrone
KENDRICK, André
VICK, Michael
FERGUSON, Jarrett
SUGGS, Lee
HAWKINS, Cullen
DAVIS, André
BURNELL, Keith
WARD, Wayne
BRIGGS, Wayne
PARHAM, Terrell
TEAM
MEYER, Dave
Total
Opponents
PASSING
VICK, Michael
G Effic
10 180.37
MEYER, Dave
NOEL, Grant
9 111.50
3 92.00
TEAM 11 0.00
KENDRICK, André 11 724.00
Total
Opponents
11 165.86
11 98.06
11
9
11
11
2
G Att Gain Loss Net AvgTD Long /G
11 226 1147
11 103 671
10 108 782
28
26
197
1119
645
585
5.0
6.3
5.4
13
7
8
58
59
75
101.7
58.6
58.5
34
44
15
3
7
175
148
76
72
16
2 173
12 136
1
0
2
75
14
5.1
3.1
5.0
72 24.0
2.0
1
2
0
3
0
33
12
18
28
6
15.7
15.1
6.8
6.5
7.0
11
11
4
5
9
1
1
1
5
11
11 559 3102
11 388 1488
0
0
2
2
11
0
0
0
10
31
309
653
2
2
0
-10
-20
2793
835
2.0
2.0
0.0
-2.0
-1.8
5.0
2.2
0
0
0
0
1
35
5
2
2
0
0
3
75
78
0.5
0.4
0.0
-0.9
-2.2
253.9
75.9
Att-Cmp-Int
152- 90- 5
42- 25- 3
21- 0
199-117- 8
344-166-10
Pct
59.2
1840 12
59.5
50.0
20- 0 0.0
11- 0 100.0
Yds
292
10
0
35
TD
1
0
0
1
58.8
2177 14
48.3
1885 10
LngAvg
74
41
10
0
35
74
97
184.0
32.4
3.3
0.0
3.2
197.9
171.4
TEAM STATISTICS
SCORING
Points Per Game
FIRST DOWNS
Rushing
Passing
Penalty
RUSHING YARDAGE
Yards gained rushing
Yards lost rushing
Rushing Attempts
Average Per Rush
Average Per Game
TDs Rushing
PASSING YARDAGE
Att-Comp-Int
Average Per Pass
Average Per Catch
Average Per Game
TDs Passing
TOTAL OFFENSE
Total Plays
Average Per Play
Average Per Game
VT
455
41.4
228
127
79
22
2793
3102
309
559
5.0
253.9
388
2.2
75.9
35
2177
5
1885
199-117-8 344-166-10
10.9
5.5
18.6
197.9
14
4970
758
6.6
451.8
11.4
171.4
10
2720
732
3.7
247.3
OPP
116
10.5
158
69
77
12
835
1488
653
KICK RETURNS: #-YDS 22-539
PUNT RETURNS: #-YDS 42-518
INT RETURNS: #-YDS 10-142
KICK RETURN AVG
PUNT RETURN AVG
INT RETURN AVG
FUMBLES-LOST
24.5
12.3
14.2
19-11
PENALTIES-YARDS
Average Per Game
PUNTS-YARDS
Average Per Punt
Net punt average
TIME OF POSS/GAME
65-560
50.9
46-1765
38.4
37.6
31:21
3RD-DOWN CONV
3rd-Down Pct
4TH-DOWN CONV
4th-Down Pct
SACKS BY-YARDS
MISC. YARDS
54/141
38%
9/14
64%
58-449
120
41/167
25%
6/20
30%
26-171
2
TD’S SCORED
FIELD GOALS-ATT
PAT-ATTEMPTS
ATTENDANCE
57
17-22
56-57
315,111
15
4-6
12-13
207,970
Games/Avg Per Game 6/52,518 5/41,594
46-951
9-36
8-75
20.7
4.0
9.4
26-12
84-638
58.0
87-3521
40.5
34.5
28:39
SCORE BY QTRS 1st 2nd 3rd 4th Tot
Virginia Tech
Opponents
107
31
157
34
73
14
118 455
37 116
178 2000 Virginia Tech Football
DEFENSIVE LEADERS GP
SMITH, Jamel
BIRD, Cory
11
11
TAYLOR, Ben
SORENSEN, Nick
HAWKES, Michael
11
11
11
MOORE, Corey
CYRUS, Chris
11
11
ENGELBERGER, John 11
BRADLEY, Carl 11
CHARLTON, Ike
BEASLEY, Chad
AUSTIN, Larry
PUGH, David
WILLIAMS, Nathaniel
BUTLER, Tee
WHITAKER, Ronyell
8
11
11
11
11
11
11
MONROE, Derrius
MIDGET, Anthony
WOLFE, Benny
HOUSERIGHT, Jake
HUNT, Steven
SUMMERS, Phillip
HICKS, Philip
WILKINSON, Dan
PILE, Willie
10
10
8
7
3
11
11
10
10
WITTEN, Shawn
COOK, Ron
PINIELLA, Derek
KREBS, Chris
SUGGS, Lee
MARKOGIANNIKIS
KIBBLE, Jimmy
FERUGIO, Jim
DONAHUE, Mike
COBB, Lamar
SLOWIKOWSKI, Bob
FRANKLIN, Thenus
WELCH, Brian
DAVIS, André
WARD, Wayne
BEAMER, Shane
FERGUSON, Jarrett
WYNN, Browning
CARTER, Derek
TEAM
Total
Opponents
UT AT
Tackles Sacks Pass Def Fumbles Blkd
Total ForLoss No-Yards Int-Yds BrUp QBH Rcv-Yds FF Kick Saf
52 37
47 27
89
74
8-17
7-12
1-8
6-37
.
.
2
.
5
6 2-26
.
1
.
.
.
.
.
37 34
37 33
34 35
45 15
25 32
32 21
22 29
42 9
16 23
27 11
19 15
15 16
21 10
22 7
7 20
19 5
10 14
6 16
8
5
5
8 7
4 10
4
7
7
71
70
69
60
57
53
51
51
39
38
34
31
31
29
27
24
24
22
15
14
12
12
12
5-17
2-3
2-5
6-13
3-7
5-16
4-6
1-14
7-20
4-8
.
2-2
1-4
.
1-1
.
1-2
.
1-2
.
1-2
1-8
3-35
3-27
11-32 17-150
4-5 3-14
7-41
2-9
2-19
1-10
4-37
2-12
2-17
.
1-7
.
1-9
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
1-4
.
2-25
1-34
1-31
11
8
9
4
11
8
11
11
10
4
10
3
1
4
3
3
2
3
4
2
8
6
2
3
3
4
1
2
.
5
5
2
3
5
4
7
7
10
9
9
7
4
4
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RECEIVING
DAVIS, André
HALL, Ricky
JOHNSON, Emmett
PARHAM, Terrell
WYNN, Browning
CARTER, Derek
WITTEN, Shawn
FERGUSON, Jarrett
HAWKINS, Cullen
STITH, Shyrone
KENDRICK, André
SUGGS, Lee
Total
Opponents
INTERCEPTIONS
KICK RETURNS
FUMBLE RETURNS
SCORING
GRAHAM, Shayne
STITH, Shyrone
DAVIS, André
VICK, Michael
KENDRICK, André
HALL, Ricky
SUGGS, Lee
CHARLTON, Ike
MEYER, Dave
MOORE, Corey
FERGUSON, Jarrett 1
BUTLER, Tee 1
SUMMERS, Phillip
1
1
1
AUSTIN, Larry 1
JOHNSON, Emmett 1
BIRD, Cory
HAWKINS, Cullen
TEAM 0
1
1
4
2
8
7
2
G
11
11
11
11
11
11
11
11
11
11
SLOWIKOWSKI, Bob 10
11
9
11
11
0-0
0-0
0-0
0-0
0-0
0-0
0-0
0-0
0-0
0-0
0-0
0-0
0-0
0-0
0-0
No.
35
25
10
9
7
7
6
5
4
4
3
1
1
117
166
0-0
0-0
0-0
0-0
0-0
0-0
0-0
0-0
0-0
0-0
0-0
0-0
0-0
0-0
0-0
WHITAKER, Ronyell 0
Total
0-0
57 17-22
0-0
56-57
Opponents 15 4-6 12-13
Yds
962
398
147
98
157
132
55
48
78
48
47
6
1
2177
1885
PUNT RETURNS No.
HALL, Ricky ........................................................ 40
DAVIS, André ........................................................ 1
WHITAKER, Ronyell ............................................. 1
Total ................................................................ 42
Opponents ........................................................ 9
0-0
0-0
0-0
0-0
0-0
0-0
0-0
0-0
0-0
0-0
0-0
0-0
0-0
0-0
0-0
0-0
0-0
0-0
18.9
9.2
9.6
19.5
12.0
15.7
6.0
1.0
18.6
11.4
AvgTD Long /G
27.5
15.9
9
3
74
60
87.5
36.2
14.7
10.9
22.4
1
0
0
41
22
35
13.4
8.9
14.3
0
0
0
1
0
0
0
0
14
10
30
11
24
30
25
24
6
1
74
97
12.0
5.0
4.4
7.1
4.4
4.7
0.5
0.1
197.9
171.4
No.
MIDGET, Anthony ................................................. 4
HAWKES, Michael ................................................ 2
CHARLTON, Ike .................................................... 1
AUSTIN, Larry ....................................................... 1
SORENSEN, Nick ................................................. 1
SUMMERS, Phillip ................................................ 1
Total ................................................................ 10
Opponents ........................................................ 8
No.
STITH, Shyrone .................................................. 15
KENDRICK, André ................................................ 3
FERGUSON, Jarrett ............................................. 2
HAWKINS, Cullen ................................................. 1
SUGGS, Lee ......................................................... 1
Total ................................................................ 22
Opponents ...................................................... 46
No.
CHARLTON, Ike .................................................... 2
MOORE, Corey ..................................................... 1
BIRD, Cory ............................................................ 1
BUTLER, Tee ........................................................ 0
Total .................................................................. 4
Opponents ........................................................ 1
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
Yds
510
3
5
518
36
Yds
5
25
34
31
4
43
142
75
Yds
387
39
35
58
20
539
951
Yds
62
32
26
0
120
2
0-0
0-0
0-0
0-0
0-0
0-0
0-0
0-0
0-0
0-0
0-0
0-0
0-0
0-0
0-0
0-0
0-0
1-2
FG SEQUENCE Virginia Tech
James Madison (32)
UAB (22),29
Clemson
Virginia
Rutgers
Syracuse
Pittsburgh
West Virginia
Miami
Temple
-
48,(47)
(48)
(25),(37)
(46),(32),(52),52
(20),(44)
59,45,(42),(28),(42)
(28),(34)
Boston College (40) -
Numbers in (parentheses) indicate field goal was made.
AvgTD Long
12.8
3.0
5.0
1
0
0
64
0
5
12.3
4.0
1
0
64
12
AvgTD Long
1.2
0 3
12.5
34.0
31.0
4.0
43.0
14.2
9.4
0
1
1
0
1
3
0
27
34
31
4
43
43
30
TOTAL OFFENSE
VICK, Michael
G
10
STITH, Shyrone
KENDRICK, André
11
11
MEYER, Dave 9
FERGUSON, Jarrett 11
SUGGS, Lee 9
HAWKINS, Cullen
DAVIS, André
BURNELL, Keith
NOEL, Grant
BRIGGS, Wayne
WARD, Wayne
TEAM
Total
Opponents
4
11
11
11
11
11
2
3
5
AvgTD Long
25.8
13.0
17.5
58.0
20.0
24.5
20.7
32.0
26.0
0.0
30.0
2.0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
2
0
2
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
1
1
4
0
44
17
23
58
20
58
52
AvgTD Long
31.0
1 51
32
26
0
51
2
PATs
TD FGs Kick Rush Rcv Pass DXP Saf Points
0 17-22 56-57
13 0-0 0-0
12 0-0 0-0
0-0
0-0
0-0
0
0
0
0-0
0-0
0-0
0
0
0
0
0
0
107
78
72
48
42
24
12
12
6
6
6
6
4
6
6
6
6
6
2
455
116
Plays
260
226
104
53
34
44
15
3
7
2
1
1
7
758
732
-
-
-
Opponents
-
(47)
-
-
36,(27)
27,(23)
(28)
Rush
585
1119
645
-20
173
136
75
72
14
0
2
2
-10
2793
835
Pass
1840
0
35
292
0
0
0
0
0
10
0
0
0
2177
1885
Total
2425
1119
680
272
173
136
75
72
14
10
2
2
-10
4970
2720
ALL PURPOSE
STITH, Shyrone
DAVIS, Andre
HALL, Ricky
KENDRICK, André
VICK, Michael 10
FERGUSON, Jarrett 11
HAWKINS, Cullen
SUGGS, Lee
WYNN, Browning
11
9
11
G Rush Rec PR KOR IR FR
11 1119 48 0 387 0 0
Tot
1554
Avg/G
141.3
11
11
11
72
0
645
962
398
6
3
510
0
0
0
39
0
0
0
0
0
0
1037
908
690
94.3
82.5
62.7
585
173
75
136
0
48
78
1
0 157
0
0
0
0
0
0
35
58
20
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
585
256
211
157
157
58.5
23.3
19.2
17.4
14.3
JOHNSON, Emmett 11
CARTER, Derek 11
PARHAM, Terrell
CHARLTON, Ike
WITTEN, Shawn
11
11
11
SLOWIKOWSKI, Bob 10
SUMMERS, Phillip 10
MOORE, Corey
AUSTIN, Larry
BIRD, Cory
11
11
11
0 147
0 132
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
98
0
55
47
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0 43
0
0 31
0
0
0
0
34
0
0
0 32
0
0
0
0
62
0
0
0
0
26
147
132
98
96
55
47
43
32
31
26
13.4
12.0
8.9
8.7
5.0
4.7
4.3
2.9
2.8
2.4
2.3
7.0
0.5
0.5
0.4
0.5
0.4
-0.9
-2.2
571.7
344.0
Avg/G
242.5
101.7
61.8
30.2
15.7
15.1
6.8
6.5
7.0
3.3
0.4
0.5
-0.9
451.8
247.3
FIELD GOALS FGM-FGA Pct 01-19 20-29 30-39 40-49 50-99 LgBlk
GRAHAM, Shayne 17-22 77.3
0-0 5-6 4-4 7-9 1-3 52 0
PUNTING
KIBBLE, Jimmy
Total
Opponents
No.
46
46
87
Yds AvgLong TB FC
1765 38.4
64 4 13
1765 38.4
3521 40.5
64
78
4
6
13
8
I20 Blkd
16 0
16
19
0
1
Receiving leader
André
Davis breaks away for a touchdown.
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Rushes 29 STITH, Shyrone, vs UAB (Sep 11, 1999)
Yards Rushing
TD Rushes
Long Rush
Pass attempts
Pass completions
Yards Passing
TD Passes
Long Pass
Receptions
162 STITH, Shyrone, vs Clemson (Sep 23, 1999)
KENDRICK, André, at Pittsburgh (Oct 30, 1999)
3 VICK, Michael, vs James Madison (Sep 4, 1999)
75
30
14
STITH, Shyrone, at Virginia (Oct 2, 1999)
VICK, Michael, at Temple (Nov 20, 1999)
VICK, Michael, at West Virginia (Nov 6, 1999)
VICK, Michael, at West Virginia (Nov 6, 1999)
290 VICK, Michael, vs Boston College (Nov 26, 1999)
4 VICK, Michael, at Rutgers (Oct 9, 1999)
74 VICK, Michael, at Rutgers (Oct 9, 1999)
5 HALL, Ricky, at Rutgers (Oct 9, 1999)
DAVIS, André, at Pittsburgh (Oct 30, 1999)
DAVIS, André, at West Virginia (Nov 6, 1999)
DAVIS, André, vs Boston College (Nov 26, 1999)
172 DAVIS, André, vs Boston College (Nov 26, 1999) Yards Receiving
TD Receptions
Long Reception
Field Goals
2 HALL, Ricky, at Rutgers (Oct 9, 1999)
DAVIS, André, at Rutgers (Oct 9, 1999)
DAVIS, André, at Temple (Nov 20, 1999)
DAVIS, André, vs Boston College (Nov 26, 1999)
74 DAVIS, André, at Rutgers (Oct 9, 1999)
3 GRAHAM, Shayne, at Pittsburgh (Oct 30, 1999)
GRAHAM, Shayne, vs Miami (Nov 13, 1999)
52 GRAHAM, Shayne, at Pittsburgh (Oct 30, 1999)
8 KIBBLE, Jimmy, at West Virginia (Nov 6, 1999)
Long Field Goal
Punts
Punting Avg
Long Punt
Long Punt Return
Interceptions
50.0
KIBBLE, Jimmy, vs Syracuse (Oct 16, 1999)
64 KIBBLE, Jimmy, vs Syracuse (Oct 16, 1999)
64 HALL, Ricky, vs Miami (Nov 13, 1999)
Long Kickoff Return 58 HAWKINS, Cullen, at Temple (Nov 20, 1999)
Tackles 12 SMITH, Jamel, at West Virginia (Nov 6, 1999)
Sacks 3 MOORE, Corey, vs UAB (Sep 11, 1999)
MOORE, Corey, at West Virginia (Nov 6, 1999)
BIRD, Cory, vs Boston College (Nov 26, 1999)
3 MIDGET, Anthony, vs Miami (Nov 13, 1999)
Rushes
Yards Rushing
Yards Per Rush
TD Rushes
Pass attempts
Pass completions
Yards Passing
Yards Per Pass
TD Passes
Total Plays
Total Offense
Yards Per Play
Points
Sacks By
First Downs
Penalties
Penalty Yards
Turnovers
Interceptions By
59 vs Syracuse (Oct 16, 1999)
315 at Temple (Nov 20, 1999)
6.4
at Pittsburgh (Oct 30, 1999)
6 vs James Madison (Sep 4, 1999)
31 at West Virginia (Nov 6, 1999)
15 at Rutgers (Oct 9, 1999)
290 vs Boston College (Nov 26, 1999)
24.7
at Virginia (Oct 2, 1999)
4 at Rutgers (Oct 9, 1999)
77 vs James Madison (Sep 4, 1999) vs UAB (Sep 11, 1999)
555 vs Boston College (Nov 26, 1999)
8.5
at Rutgers (Oct 9, 1999)
62 vs Syracuse (Oct 16, 1999) at Temple (Nov 20, 1999)
9 at Pittsburgh (Oct 30, 1999)
28 vs Boston College (Nov 26, 1999)
8 vs UAB (Sep 11, 1999) vs Clemson (Sep 23, 1999)
85 vs UAB (Sep 11, 1999)
5 vs UAB (Sep 11, 1999)
3 vs Miami (Nov 13, 1999)
Rushes 27 COBOURNE, Avon, at West Virginia (Nov 6, 1999)
Yards Rushing
TD Rushes
Long Rush
Pass attempts
Pass completions
Yards Passing
TD Passes
Long Pass
Receptions
Yards Receiving
TD Receptions
Long Reception
Field Goals
PORTIS,Clinton, vs Miami (Nov 13, 1999)
139 PORTIS,Clinton, vs Miami (Nov 13, 1999)
1 MCMAHON, Mike, at Rutgers (Oct 9, 1999)
STANTON, Seth, at Rutgers (Oct 9, 1999)
GOINGS, Nick, at Pittsburgh (Oct 30, 1999)
GODFREY, Marcus, at Temple (Nov 20, 1999)
GREEN, William, vs Boston College (Nov 26, 1999)
78
46
28
407
2
KEATON, Curtis, vs James Madison (Sep 4, 1999)
PRIESTLEY,David, at Pittsburgh (Oct 30, 1999)
PRIESTLEY,David, at Pittsburgh (Oct 30, 1999)
PRIESTLEY,David, at Pittsburgh (Oct 30, 1999)
LEWIS, Brad, at West Virginia (Nov 6, 1999)
97 HASSELBECK, Tim, vs Boston College (Nov 26, 1999)
13 BRYANT, Antonio, at Pittsburgh (Oct 30, 1999)
215 BRYANT, Antonio, at Pittsburgh (Oct 30, 1999)
Long Field Goal
Punts
2 IVY, Khori, at West Virginia (Nov 6, 1999)
97 DEWALT, Dedrick, vs Boston College (Nov 26, 1999)
1 ARIANS, Jake, vs UAB (Sep 11, 1999)
CAMPBELL, Chris, vs Clemson (Sep 23, 1999)
LOTZ, Nick, at Pittsburgh (Oct 30, 1999)
CROSLAND, Andy, vs Miami (Nov 13, 1999)
47 ARIANS, Jake, vs UAB (Sep 11, 1999)
9 GLOVER, Mike, vs James Madison (Sep 4, 1999)
CARTER, Lee, vs UAB (Sep 11, 1999)
Punting Avg 50.9
Long Punt
Long Punt Return
78 FAZZOLARI, Mark, at West Virginia (Nov 6, 1999)
12 JOYCE, Delvin, vs James Madison (Sep 4, 1999)
Long Kickoff Return 52 ALLEN, Will, vs Syracuse (Oct 16, 1999)
Tackles 14 WHITE, George, vs Boston College (Nov 26, 1999)
Sacks
SCOTT, Donnie, at Virginia (Oct 2, 1999)
SHAFER, Mike, vs Syracuse (Oct 16, 1999)
FAZZOLARI, Mark, at West Virginia (Nov 6, 1999)
Interceptions
2 MORANT, Chris, vs James Madison (Sep 4, 1999)
THOMAS, Bryan, vs UAB (Sep 11, 1999)
KLECKO, Dan, at Temple (Nov 20, 1999)
BRADLEY, Scott, vs Boston College (Nov 26, 1999)
2 BROOKS,Rodregis, vs UAB (Sep 11, 1999)
CARSWELL, Robert, vs Clemson (Sep 23, 1999)
HARVEY, Kevin, at Temple (Nov 20, 1999)
Rushes
Yards Rushing
Yards Per Rush
TD Rushes
Pass attempts
Pass completions
Yards Passing
Yards Per Pass
TD Passes
Total Plays
Total Offense
Yards Per Play
Points
Sacks By
First Downs
Penalties
Penalty Yards
Turnovers
Interceptions By
43 at Rutgers (Oct 9, 1999)
181 vs Boston College (Nov 26, 1999)
4.6
vs Boston College (Nov 26, 1999)
2 at Rutgers (Oct 9, 1999)
51 at Pittsburgh (Oct 30, 1999)
29 at Pittsburgh (Oct 30, 1999)
427 at Pittsburgh (Oct 30, 1999)
8.4
at Pittsburgh (Oct 30, 1999)
3 at West Virginia (Nov 6, 1999)
80 at Pittsburgh (Oct 30, 1999)
415 at Pittsburgh (Oct 30, 1999)
5.3
vs Boston College (Nov 26, 1999)
20 at Rutgers (Oct 9, 1999) at West Virginia (Nov 6, 1999)
6 vs Boston College (Nov 26, 1999)
25 at Pittsburgh (Oct 30, 1999)
10 vs UAB (Sep 11, 1999) at Temple (Nov 20, 1999) vs Boston College (Nov 26, 1999)
91 at Temple (Nov 20, 1999)
6 vs Miami (Nov 13, 1999)
3 vs UAB (Sep 11, 1999) vs Clemson (Sep 23, 1999)
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