Halftime: Florida State 13, Virginia Tech 10
BLACKSBURG — A defensive slugfest gave way to two well-executed drives before halftime at Lane Stadium, where No. 8 Florida State has a 13-10 lead on Virginia Tech after 30 minutes.
After the Hokies (4-5, 2-3 ACC) went ahead on a 4-yard touchdown catch from Corey Fuller, the Seminoles (8-1, 5-1 ACC) marched 71 yards in five plays before EJ Manuel found Rashad Greene for a 25-yard touchdown pass.
It was a surprising finish to what had been a defensive stalemate for most of the first half. FSU had 161 yards of offense, with minus-8 rushing yards. Manuel threw for 169 yards, however.
Virginia Tech had 162 yards, getting 116 in the air from Logan Thomas, who was 7-for-16 with an interception and a touchdown.
The defense did a good job of keeping the Hokies in the game early, coming up with an interception near the end zone in the first quarter and holding Florida State to 52- and 45-yard field goals by kicker Dustin Hopkins that gave the ‘Noles a 6-3 lead.
Tech wasted a couple opportunities to take early control. A Thomas touchdown run was negated by a holding penalty, leading to a field goal by Cody Journell early on.
After FSU’s Tyler Hunter muffed a punt, giving Tech possession at the Seminoles’ 30, the Hokies couldn’t get a first down. Journell pulled a 43-yard field goal attempt wide left, keeping Tech down by three.
Just before the half, Fuller caught third-down passes of 33 and 15 yards to move the chains before Thomas put a fade pass in the right spot to Fuller for a touchdown and 10-6 lead.
FSU answered in less than two minutes. Greene beat cornerback Kyle Fuller off the line for the touchdown catch to cap the drive.
The Hokies have eight tackles for a loss and two sacks in the first half. Alonzo Tweedy, making his first start this year at whip linebacker, had five tackles and 1.5 tackles for a loss.
November 8, 2012 - 9:04 PM
Frank Beamer is the reason and only reason we suck so bad this year for not making coaching changes years ago!
I don’t like the outcome but I have to ask where the level of passion was all season that we showed tonight.
I can’t wait to see the posts from all the CFB apologists…once again, a top 10 team, same results.
I’m thinking this is not the time to hang Beamer. Now I do agree 100% that subpar coaching has been the problem leading to a 4-6 record. We saw tonight that VT has the talent to compete…so it is not a talent issue. If they played like that all season, they would have been undefeated coming into the game. To me that suggests the issue is is game prep or play calling and those are on the coaching staff. But I am not sure that this FSU loss is really on the coaches. Sure, there were a couple of plays that should be second guessed…but FSU is a very good team (not ‘back’, but very good) and everybody did what they needed to do to win – somtimes the ball just needs to bounce your way, and that did not happen tonight on a few instances.
I am sure there will be those blaming the defense for giving it up on FSU’s last drive (like the UCinn game), but they had a huge game.
Great game for Corey Fuller! Wish he had another year.
Now…back to the regularlly scheduled “fire Stinespring” comments that represent the other 10 games.
Frank always looks like he is lost on the sideline, like what was that play? How did that happen? Are you kidding me? It is worth watching the VT games just to see him on the sidelines. Does he every actually participate in the Hokie practices? He doesn’t seem to know what anyone is doing during the game. Georgia Tech is going to win the Coastal.
Barry, you mean the “who farted” look????