Virginia Tech's uninspiring win at Duke provides interesting film to review during bye week

An odd afternoon for Virginia Tech – and one that’s difficult to draw comparisons to because Tech doesn’t have many recent games that fall in the same category as its experience in Saturday’s 14-10 win at Duke. Sure, Tech has had a few clunkers in recent years against opponents everybody expected it to beat, but most of those games resulted in Tech losses as opposed to a Tech team that struggled, yet somehow pulled out a victory. There’s the James Madison game last season (a 21-16 Tech loss), the North Carolina game in 2009 (a 20-17 Tech loss), the East Carolina game in ’08 (a 27-22 Tech loss) and the Georgia Tech game in ’06 (a 38-27 Virginia Tech loss). All were games Tech was supposed to win comfortably, but the Hokies