One of the great offseason traditions in college football is hunting for a team that could exceed expectations during the upcoming season. The quest for that squad is constant, whether you want to call them a sleeper team or dark horse contender.
Popular criteria for finding these teams has always been a strong finish to the previous season and a favorable schedule in the next. This is why Virginia Tech is a program being thrown around in a lot of these conversations. After a 2-4 start to the 2023 season that saw the Hokies lose games to Purdue, Rutgers and Marshall while getting spanked by Florida State, a corner was turned. Virginia Tech won five of its final seven games, including comfortable wins over Wake Forest, Syracuse, Boston College, Virginia and Tulane in a rain-soaked Military Bowl.
A peek at the 2024 schedule shows promise. While there are nonconference games at Vanderbilt as well as rematches with Marshall and Rutgers, only the tilt against the Commodores is on the road. As for conference play, there’s a road trip to Miami to start and a home game against Clemson, but there is no Florida State. There’s no NC State. Notre Dame is nowhere to be found (it’s not a conference game, but you’d still prefer to avoid the Fighting Irish). There are plenty of winnable games and opportunities to improve on last year’s 7-5 record and make a surprise run to the ACC Championship Game.
While all that’s important, there’s another reason people are high on the Hokies. His name is Kyron Drones, and regardless of how things finished last season or what’s on the schedule in 2024, Drones’ development and improvement as the team’s star quarterback will ultimately decide how far the Hokies go this coming season.
Who is Kyron Drones?
Drones is one…
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Author : Tom Fornelli
Publish date : 2024-03-19 15:15:51
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