Preview: Q&A with Virginia Tech Beat Writer Andy Bitter

MURFREESBORO, Tenn. — If you happened to be in the Greenland Drive parking lot right around 5:00 in the afternoon this past week, you might've heard a Metallica guitar riff bouncing off the light poles of the Blue Raiders' practice field beside Dean E. Hayes Track & Soccer Stadium.

Sure, the Virginia Tech fight song or Hells Bells might've been mixed in at the right moment, but most of Middle Tennessee's players will "sleep with one eye open" until they're "off to never-never land," which this week also known as Lane Stadium.

"Not only do they play (Enter Sandman) out here, the past couple of days they've been playing that in the weight room as well," wide receiver CJ Windham said. "They just…