Live Blog | The Chick-fil-A Bowl
Moderated by Chris Graham
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Join ACCVirginia.com in a Live Blog during the 2009 Chick-fil-A Bowl featuring Virginia Tech (9-3) and Tennessee (7-5).
The game is being broadcast nationally on ESPN at 7:30 p.m.
Editor Chris Graham will offer commentary and analysis during the game. Please feel free to join in with your thoughts and observations.
Bowls, or Winter Classic?
Weekend Watchdog column by Mike Judge
WeekendWatchdog.blogspot.com
For years, college football has been the tradition on New Year’s Day. But with the Bowl Championship Series, several games moved off the traditional day each year as we build up to the national title game.
The past three years, the NHL has stepped into the Jan. 1 breach with its Winter Classic. After stops in Buffalo and Chicago, this time Boston’s Fenway Park hosts the Bruins and Philadelphia Flyers. Read more
Transcripts: Taylor, Grimm talk Chick-fil-A
Staff
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Tyrod Taylor
Is it good that you have been on a roll going into the bowl game?
“The last couple games we put up a lot of numbers on the offense. We just have to keep continuing to get better in practice heading into the bowl game.”
Does heading back to Atlanta bother you, with you all being 0-2 there this year?
“This is just another game that we get to play on our schedule. I am looking forward to going in there and turning it around from the first [two] times we went to Atlanta.” Read more
Hokies get Vols in Chick-fil-A
Story by Chris Graham
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Chick-fil-A Bowl president Gary Stokan has an interesting idea. Why not ask racing magnate Bruton Smith his thoughts about moving the Virginia Tech-Tennessee bowl matchup to Atlanta Motor Speedway to accommodate what would be expected to be intense interest among the two schools’ fan bases?
“Our fan base has wanted to play Tennessee for a long, long time,” said Virginia Tech athletics director Jim Weaver of the Dec. 31 bowl game between Tech (9-3, 6-2 ACC) and UT (7-5, 4-4 SEC). Read more
The First Hot Dog Night
Excerpted from Mad About U: Four Decades of Basketball at University Hall, by Chris Graham and Patrick Hite
In an effort to set a new Virginia women’s basketball single-game attendance record, the promotion that helped set the current mark 22 years ago is back on Nov. 22 vs. Tennessee – Hot Dog Night.
All Cavalier fans in attendance at this year’s Virginia-Tennessee game on Sunday, Nov. 22, will receive a coupon for a free Gwaltney hot dog and a 12-ounce Pepsi. Tip-off is scheduled for 4 p.m. at John Paul Jones Arena.
The original Hot Dog Night was Feb. 5, 1986, vs. No. 15 North Carolina in University Hall, which drew a standing room only crowd of 11,174. That mark still stands as the largest home crowd at a Virginia women’s basketball game.
Authors Chris Graham and Patrick Hite chronicled the first Hot Dog Night in their 2006 book, Mad About U: Four Decades of Basketball at University Hall, devoting an entire chapter in the book to the night, called “Leap of Faith.” Read more
