BRISTOL, Tenn. – Virginia Tech got off to a great start in its game against the No. 17 Tennessee Volunteers, but turnovers and penalties turned out to be its undoing, as the Hokies fell to the Volunteers 45-24 on Saturday night at Bristol Motor Speedway.
The long-anticipated event drew a crowd of 156,990 fans and broke college football’s single-game attendance record, surpassing the 115,109 fans who witnessed Michigan and Notre Dame at Michigan Stadium in 2013.
Tennessee quarterback Josh Dobbs threw three touchdown passes and rushed for two more, as the Volunteers rallied from a 14-0 deficit to knock off the Hokies in the first regular-season meeting between the two teams since 1937.