National writer has extremely encouraging take on Virginia Tech football for 2024

When the Virginia Tech football team opens the season on Aug. 31 at Vanderbilt, it will be year three of the Brent Pry regime at the school. Pry was then left with the cup of correcting for the Hokies that are a prominent football program whose performance dipped significantly under the stewardship of Justin Fuente.

When ACC began, Virginia Tech was a new team, as four games into last season they were 1-3 after a 2008 campaign that saw Pry’s squad go 3-8. The Hokies managed to win five of the eight conference games, which brought them to the level of 6-6 and the qualification for the bowl before the confident win in Military Bowl over the Tulane team. Between a rout of Virginia and a win over the Green Wave, Tech got a ton of retainment for the 2024 season which raised the inevitable expectations even higher. However, with a new-looking college football season on the horizon, the Hokies delight and, finally, one writer warns that the reconstruction with Pry could be soon over.

He saw 2024 Virginia Tech as being a sleepers in College Football Playoff while naming The Athletic.

With the start of the new season comes the new 12-team College Football Playoff format that symbolizes a new college football age. This season many teams start a season with great expectations, this includes the Hokies where a team can come back from one, maybe two losses and still play for the National Championship. Kyle Tucker of The Athletic included Virginia Tech as an unranked team from the Preseason Coaches Poll last week that could CFP crash along with the Hunter threat, which he might be that close to signaling that the rebuild is finished.

Tucker said that this might be the best Virginia Tech team since Frank Beamer time and indicated their returning production rank as No 5 in the country as the reason why they could be back. He's not wrong. Junior signal caller Kyron Drones initially sets up an offense that could very well post a lot of numbers this year and a defense spearheaded by a talented and deeper defensive line that should be in the ACC’s top pack and perhaps among the leading candidates for sack artists this year.

Add it all up with a realistic 12 game season and you have the formula for a team that’s rearing to go not only in its conference but the entire country. The recruitment over the years that Pry and his staff have been doing for the future has placed the program in the right footing for not only 2024 but more so in the subsequent years.