COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Urban Meyer knows that if things don’t get better soon his Ohio State Buckeyes might just face more defeats down the road like the one they were handed in front of the biggest home crowd ever.
Michael Brewer passed for two touchdowns on Saturday night and Virginia Tech’s defense stood tough at the end as the Hokies stunned the eighth-ranked Buckeyes 35-21.
”I still have confidence that we have enough skill on this football team to get by people,” Meyer said.
He added: ”It didn’t look like it (tonight). But we have to get by people or you’re going to see what you saw today every week.”
Keyshoen Jarrett had two interceptions and Donovan Riley returned another 63 yards for a TD in the final minute before a record crowd of 107,517 at enlarged Ohio Stadium.
It was a huge win for a Virginia Tech program that had lost 11 games the last two years and had gone from perennial juggernaut to a national afterthought.
”I think this is a big, big win for this program, for the status of this program,” coach Frank Beamer said.
Virginia Tech had talked all week about a spotlight victory to conjure up the program’s better days under Beamer, now 226-109-2 in his 28 years in Blacksburg, Virginia.
The Hokies definitely did that.
But Beamer wasn’t talking about a Hokies renaissance.
”I don’t know,” he said when asked if Virginia Tech had regained its national prominence. ”We have to build on this win, learn from this win.”
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