The Game That Virginia Tech STUNNED #8 Ohio State (2014) 

After rewatching this one, I never realized how well Virginia Tech’s defense did in this game. Picked off JT Barrett 3 times and had 7 sacks.

Was there as a Hokie fan and it's one of the best days of my life

35 straight home opener wins? VA Tech: "I'm gonna do a pro gamer move"

Virginia Tech then proceeded to go 0-0 in regulation against Wake Forest later in the season.

And VT went on to lose to ECU the next week. And OSU ended up winning the first ever CFP title. Love college football.

VT was coming off an 8-5 season in 2013 and 7-6 in 2012. Both of those were a far cry from the 8 straight 10-win seasons they had from 2004 to 2011. I thought when they won this game, they were back. They followed this up with losses to East Carolina and Georgia Tech and stumbled to a 7-6 record, 3-5 in the ACC. By far one of the most grueling seasons to endure as a Hokie fan. Beamer retired after the next season.

It's one of the best victories as a hokie. Sadly, the rest of the year and many like it are plagued with ruined seasons.

I remember leaving the 'Shoe that night saying to my friend "This is going to be a long year." We looked so bad that night. 13 wins later...National Champions.

Hot take: No chance Ohio State wins the championship if they won this game

Just when VT makes you think they've figured it out, they stomp your heart out. This win, then lost to ECU. Start off 4-0, then lose by 2 TDs to ODU. When I've made it through an entire season without feeling embarrassed to be a Hokies fan will be the best day of my life.

Brewer was too tough for his own good. One if my favorite Hokies

This Ohio team were loaded that year. Amazing job by Virginia tech

Damn that Ohio state team was stacked, mike Thomas, zeke, Joey bosa, vonn bell

Dang, Ohio State had so many future nfl players on this team.

As a hokie fan i will say this is game is stained in brain for the rest of my life!

This one hurt in the moment, but this season was so magical as an OSU fan I wouldn’t change anything

I still can't believe OSU went on to win the natty after this

Watching this game live as a Buckeye fan, it felt like VA Tech went 37-37 on 3rd down Good game, Hokies

So happy for frank here. The last couple years with him at coach were rough at times but glad he was able to get such a huge signature win like this

Wow. I forgot how badly OSU’s kicker choked in this game.

Watching this game live made my whole year. Go Hokies!

One of the only losses as a buckeye fan that im okay with happening. This loss motivated the team and J.T. Barrett to play better which ultimately led to us winning out and winning the championship

thank you so much for this one. my roommate an OSU fan was in drunk shock/rage

I was at the game. Big OSU fan, but that day the Hokies absolutely were the better team. OSU needed to grow up being somewhat inexperienced. Remember that the week before we barely beat Navy in Baltimore. I was surprised that Vtech seemed to fall apart after this. I thought the OSU win would propel them. I had a feeling Ohio State would wake up and become quite good, possibly even still winning the Big Ten title. No way did I think we would win the National Title.

I turned 21 that day and we traveled up there for it. Paid a fortune to sit behind a concrete slab. I only remember Bucky ballin and that Riley interception. We had a whole celebration in the front rows of that end zone best game of my life.

Great night to be a Hokie! Also OSU can look at this game as the kick in the arse they used to run the table and win the natty.

this is the only osu loss i can watch and not feel bad about

Thanks for making me relive this lol. It's all good. Great video

This was great as a Hokie fan! LETS GO.....

Willie Byrne, Isaiah Ford, Sam Rogers, Brewer.....lotta great Hokie offensive players in this game.

To this day, i don’t know how we beat them and then turnaround and lose to ECU and Georgia Tech over the next two weeks.

I remember watching this live wondering if this was the indicator of how the season would go. Barrett was 9 of 29.

Crazy how good the osu team was they had so many nfl stars then

Who knew that later that year this same Hokie team would go on to beat coach Gus duggerton and the tennesee volunteers in the championship

Oh man do I miss that level of D play

That intro gives me chills

8:53 to this day I still have no clue who or what JT was trying to throw to

some crazy names on this OSU team

Virginia Tech won this game using a bear front (3 DL over the center and 2 guards) that OSU had no game plan for. Couple that with 4 new starting OL and a red shirt freshman QB making his second career start and you have a disaster.

You know, its actually kind of absurd how bad this year ended up being for the Hokies. They ended up dropping 4 of the next 6 games, giving us a massive meme in the "Frank Beamer celebrating a 0-0 tie" screenshot from the Wake Forest game (that they lost 3-0 against a team giving up 27 pts a game), they missed on a ton of recruits like Josh Sweat, Derek Nnandi, Jalen Dalton, a bunch of other dudes I don't entirely remember off the top of my head. Virginia Tech and terrible offense, name a more iconic combination. Seems like if they don't have a generational talent in the backfield like Michael Vick or at least a future pro player like Tyrod Taylor or Logan Thomas, Tech's offense was unstable at best and prone to being complete garbage at worst.

I’m a Virginia tech fan

9:10 the camera shakes

Do more of these like upsets Including upsets by my Nebraska cornhuskers But do more of these for other teams :)

I forgot Michael Thomas and Ezechiel Elliott we’re Buckeye.s. I’ve drafted both those guys in fantasy.

9 first rounders on this team. 6 second rounders. 49 players on this team went to the NFL including names like Zeke Elliott, Joey Bosa, Michael Thomas, Eli Apple, and Marshon Lattimore to name a few. How did this team lose?

Probably the best thing that happened to Ohio State that regular season

can someone tell me why Ohio State stopped wearing those jerseys they are so fire!

Anyone remember the bell getting rang during the game sometime around halftime?

This one hurt as a Buckeye fan😞

I love this obviously as a Virginia Tech Hokie fan. However, I hope some college sports head coaches would watch this and really pay hard attention to this! In all sports, when you're coming off a huge win that wasn't predicted, and you were the underdog and won!! You see time after time after time after time!! That underdog team's, coming off of a huge win. Lose the next game against a good but inferior opponent or even a bad to nominal opponent again and again!! This drive's me crazy!! Coaches need to preach and prepare Every Week. It seems to be more mental than physical or lack there of? Of one or the other but probably both!! Great game played by both but the Hokies had it this night! Why not every night? There's something there in mentally!!! Lol

Though as Virginia Tech fan I was happy on that day but we all know Ohio State got the last laugh

Bruh how many times can you get sacked lol

Brewer was pretty good ngl

YES TECH!

The weirdest thing wasn't even that VT won, but that some of their fans printed up "VT 35, Nat'l Champs 28" shirts after the season (a season in which they went 7-6 (3-5))

lessss gooo hokiesss

As an Ohio state fan we don’t win a national title if we win this game

TCU was a blown 21 point 4th quarter lead away from keeping OSU out of the playoff.

How did JT Barrett not score at 2:14? Gotta read the blocks!

Whats the name of your outro

Do Liberty upsetting Baylor 👀🔥

@ 8:15 there’s no way he got to the 41. Didn’t even get a first down either. Play it in .25 playback speed. Knee was clearly down🤷🏽‍♂️ Edit; watching it again, he might have got the first down. Looks very close to me. Still nowhere near the 41 tho. They gave him a full 2 more yards!

PSC do closest rivalries games as in within 3 points

And thus the Zeke and JT Barrett saga began

Well there goes OSU’s shot at the playoff

I know I'm 10 years late, but you should re-name this "the game that Virginia tech Stunned the National Champs Ohio State #1"

Frank. Beamer.

The QB in this game, Michael Brewer is Charlie Brewers brother

Anytime Ohio State loses is a good day.

I think urban forgot zeke was still on the team

Great game as a VT fan. Funny how we were still bad that year, and OSU won the national title, so in retrospect, while exciting, this game ultimately meant nothing.

National champs

8:52 where tf was that throw too. his teammates were more than 25 yards away from that throw.

The coaches of VT failed these kids. This team should’ve been in the playoff conversation.

Injuries killed our season after a great start

VT was clearly the superior team in every facet.

Still got the championship 🤷🏾‍♂️😤

Only to lose to ECU at home the next week 😣😔😫

Tech DESPERATELY needs to go back to these uniforms

Luckily for the Buckeyes this game didn’t count towards the National Championship

Baylor Wvu 2014

That was a dark day for osu

Damn beat em at the shoe as well

Biggest crowd, ever at Ohio State......went home unhappy.

Lol Zeke and Micheal Thomas on the same offense. And Bosa, Lattimore, Apple, and Hooker on the defense.

Can anyone tell me why Bucky Hodges always fell down after catching a pass?

I remember watching this live. Honestly Tech wasnt even super good that year. Well our defense carried. Tech never was the same since Beamet left. And honestly probably gonna be another rough season this year

imagine losing with that many fans lol

This was Frank Beamer’s last hurrah

Damn Michael Thomas really only caught slants at Ohio state too

Kam Channcellor

Just watched this after watching the Hokies beat unc go hokies

I see Michael Thomas was still running slants back then

Ohio state needed to be humbled early

Those OSU unis were atrocious

I remember thinking OSU would be lucky to be bowl eligible after this game. Then they didn’t lose another game

8:56 I mean he threw it right to him lol that's what lost them the game

What happened to OSU after this? Asking for a friend

Well this is see we lost this games

And then Ohio state went out to shock the entire country and win the 1st ever college football playoff era national championship