Virginia Tech football is on the hunt for a successful 2026, but the path to do so is rather murky. The Hokies draw four easier opponents — VMI (Sept. 5), Old Dominion (Sept. 12), Maryland (Sept. 19) and Boston College (Sept. 26) — to open their season, though in the second half, they draw Clemson, SMU and Miami — all on the road.
Virginia Tech, as a team, is hard to map out, too. ESPN analyst Bill Connelly said as much about the Hokies, who will kick off their first season under new head coach James Franklin this September, in his ACC preview this past week.
“His Hokies are one of the hardest teams to project for 2026, though,” Connelly said. “Franklin put together an excellent recruiting class (with plenty of prospects who flipped their Penn State commitments), but that will be only so helpful in Year 1. He’s instead going to be reliant on a mix of transfers — and I like the transfer haul quite a bit — and holdovers from a team that underachieved quite a bit in Brent Pry’s final season in charge.”…