Virginia Tech
2-0ACC · James Franklin, year 1 (2-0) · Lane Stadium · 65,632 · 65,632 avg in 2026
LastW 44–21 vs Old Dominion · Sat Sep 12 · Mylachi Williams 2 sacks, 3.5 TFL, 4 tackles
Nextat Maryland · Sat Sep 19 · 7:30 pm ET · SECU Stadium · Virginia Tech by 3 · series 15-17, lost the last 2 · Game preview
Updated Tue Sep 15 · through week 2
All 72 stats
FBS rankings · 2026 season · all stats vs 136 FBS programs
| Player | # | G | Cmp/Att | Pct | Yds | Y/A | TD | INT | Rate | ZPR | QBR | Adj ANY/A | Sack% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| +0.36 EPA/play | 17 | 2 | 48 / 62 | 77.4 | 551 #32 FBS | 8.9 | 4 #36 FBS | 0 | 173.4 | 60 | 69.8 | 9.3 | 4.6 | |
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| 22 | 2 | 11 / 14 | 78.6 | 127 | 9.1 | 1 | 0 | 178.3 | — | — | — | — | ||
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| Player | # | G | Car | Yds | Avg | TD | Long | Stuff% | 10+% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| +0.66 EPA/play | 16 | 2 | 23 | 151 #59 FBS | 6.6 | 2 #43 FBS | 50 | — | — | |
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| +0.81 EPA/play | 27 | 2 | 23 | 112 | 4.9 | 4 #5 FBS | 20 | — | — | |
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| Player | # | G | Rec | Yds | Avg | TD | Long | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Complete TE · +1.29 EPA/play | 85 | 2 | 13 | 158 #58 FBS | 12.2 | 3 #9 FBS | 21 | |
Yards by week → Complete TENo single go-to route — the receiving numbers show up inline and split out alike. 17 of 21 TEs we've classified this way this season. Season receipt Yards / reception11.6 bottom 48th percentile · FBS TEs, min. 8 receptions TD rate23.1% 96th percentile · FBS TEs, min. 8 receptions Trait fingerprint Plays like View Luke Reynolds's full player page | ||||||||
| Possession Receiver · +0.34 EPA/play | 3 | 2 | 13 | 150 #69 FBS | 11.5 | 1 | 51 | |
Yards by week → Possession Receiver· Boom-or-bustReliable target who converts on critical downs. Not flashy; consistently productive. his yards come in chunks — feast or famine 37 of 58 WRs we've classified this way this season. Season receipt Yards / reception10.8 bottom 29th percentile · FBS WRs, min. 12 receptions EPA / play (adj)0.3 bottom 22th percentile · FBS WRs, min. 12 receptions Trait fingerprint Plays like View Que'Sean Brown's full player page | ||||||||
| — | 2 | 5 | 50 | 10 | 0 | 17 | ||
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| Player | # | G | Tot | Solo | TFL | Sack | Hur |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 37 | 2 | 7 | 5 | 6 #2 FBS | 3 #5 FBS | 0 | |
| 34 | 2 | 7 | 3 | 3.5 #17 FBS | 3 #5 FBS | 1 | |
| 42 | 2 | 6 | 3 | 2.5 #68 FBS | 2.5 #15 FBS | 1 |
| Player | # | G | Tot | Solo | Ast | TFL | Sack | PD | INT |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 2 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 3.5 #17 FBS | 2 #26 FBS | 0 | 0 | |
| 16 | 2 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 0.5 | 0 | 0 | |
| 41 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 30 | 2 | 6 | 0 | 6 | 0.5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |
| 33 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 2.5 #68 FBS | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Player | # | G | Tot | PD | INT | TFL | Sack |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | 2 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |
| 11 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Player | # | G | FG M/A | FG% | XP M/A | Pts | Long |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17 | 2 | 4/4 | 100 | 15/15 | 27 | 39 |
| Player | # | G | No | Yds | Avg | TD | Long |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Possession Receiver · +0.34 EPA/play | 3 | 2 | 3 | 117 | 39 | 0 | 79 |
| 19 | 2 | 3 | 39 | 13 | 0 | 29 |
2026 stat leaders · Virginia Tech
through 2 games
2026 stat leaders · Virginia TechEthan Grunkemeyer leads Virginia Tech with 551 passing yards through 2 games.
How They Play · 2025Virginia Tech fields a capable offense behind a porous defense.
Percentile vs all FBS, based on this season's per-game production. Bar = where this team ranks — right is better.
Virginia Tech reads strongest in rushing epa (top 20%) and explosive plays (top 49%); the crux lives in passing epa allowed, where Virginia Tech sits at the 3rd percentile.
offense · strengths lead
defense · higher bar = harder to play against
hidden math · special situations
Home-field advantage · Virginia Tech · 2018–present · FBS opponents
Virginia Tech is worth +2.7 points more at home than on the road.
Bottom third of FBS, 24th percentile of 133 programs
50% at home, 36% away against FBS opponents since 2018 (23–23 home, 15–27 away). Interval ±3.7.
Our model gives every stadium the same flat 2.3-point home edge — per-team modelling was tested and did not survive scrutiny (why) — and the books use about 3. Against the closing line, Virginia Tech has beaten the number by −2.9 more at home than away over 71 games — inside the ±8.0 that many games can resolve. Results here cannot tell the flat number apart from the building, and that is the honest reading of nearly every FBS stadium.
Lane Stadium seats 65,632 and has averaged 97% full (63,648, 26 games reported). Visitors get here easily: a median 224 miles trip since 2018, the 13th-shortest of 135 FBS venues. There is no travel penalty on visitors here either way. 11% of the 2026 roster (13 of 119 located players) grew up inside 100 miles of the stadium.
Edge = half the gap between average home margin and average road margin, FBS opponents only, non-neutral games since 2018; the interval is 95%. Market line: closing spread, seasons with lines on file. Trip length is straight-line miles from the visiting team's campus to the venue, measured across all 53 home games since 2018.
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Pass defense by zone
Pass-depth identity
What this team throws, and gives up, by depth.
On short throws (≤19 air yards), Virginia Tech’s passing game completes a completion rate above the FBS mean (75.4% vs 68.3% league-wide, shrunk toward the mean for its 71-play sample) — most aggressive underneath, 39 of 41 qualifying offenses.
We won’t show a deep-ball (20+ air yards) leaderboard here, on either side of the ball: even a full season of charted plays gives most teams well under 30 deep attempts — too thin to tell a real tendency from noise, so we won’t guess. Same refusal for yards-after-catch allowed and where a team’s attempts land by zone: both measured and both came back statistically indistinguishable from season-to-season noise.
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Matched on how the programs are built — tier, prestige band, kind of fanbase, conference, voice and roster size — not on this season's stats. A calibration, not a prediction.
Conditions
62°F average kickoff temp; 12% of games had measurable precipitation; 5 mph average wind.
Based on 78 home games with weather data.