In 2022, Virginia Tech football failed to score 30 points in a game for the 1st time since 1978. In Saturday’s spring game, the Maroon team dropped 34 points in 48 minutes against the White team, and it could have been 40-plus in a regular 60-minute game. Streak broken.

On the other hand, Virginia Tech hasn’t been shut out since the infamous 16-0 Cincinnati game in Lane Stadium in 1995. The White team failed to score against the Maroon defense on Saturday. Streak broken.

That’s the nature of the annual spring game. It will make you happy and give you hope, but at the same time, you can’t help but dissect every little negative aspect of the “game” that you witnessed and spend most of the offseason worrying about it.

Here at TSL, we spent last week warning you to not take too much away from this game. Naturally, it’s now time for us to go against  our own advice and go into a little more detail. I’ll try to make my points without overlapping Andy Bitter’s always excellent “Five Thoughts” article from Sunday.

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