I’ve been in a pretty good mood (at least with regards to Hokie football) for over two weeks now. From the moment Tech took the field against Boston College on September 17th at 3:30 and started laying the smack down on the Eagles, the news has been nothing but good. The Hokies have outscored their opponents 103-17 in the last two games and have gone from receiving a single vote in the polls two weeks ago to being ranked #25 in the AP Poll and #31 in the Coaches Poll.

It’s good to be ranked again.

I checked out CollegePollArchive.com, which is a neat college rankings history site that allows you to search and sort your team’s football and basketball rankings history in a lot of ways, and I found some interesting stuff.

The Hokies were once ranked in the AP Poll for 84 straight weeks. What time frame do you think that was? Sometime during the mid-2000s?  It probably started when the Hokies recovered from a disastrous end to the 2003 season and re-entered the rankings in 2004, and then won four ACC championships in seven years, right? Nope.

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