HTS 2019: Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

They sure blew it last year... Photo by Michael Shroyer/Getty ImagesCan I dub these guys Tech’s newest rivals? Is that fair? I kinda like that. We play a tight series with them. The matchup has a couple names, common in some circles. It’s almost always a game to circle on the calendar with (usually) divisional championship connotations. Let’s get to it.

The typical Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets regular season schedule went to twelve games per season for good in 2006, after varying between eleven and twelve since 2001. In the prototypical season, Tech plays eight Atlantic Coast Conference games, with six coming against the other Coastal Division teams of Pittsburgh, Virginia, VPISU, Duke,…