Through the first three weeks of the season under former coach Brent Pry, the VirginiaTech football team found a way to hurt themselves. Whether it was self-inflicted mistakes, turnovers, or whatever you could come up with, it was costly.
The last two weeks against Wofford and North Carolina State, it appeared that they were turning the corner in terms of those mistakes, but against Wake Forest, it returned, and boy, was it costly. Turnovers or unnecessary penalties, you name it, and it doomed the Hokies in a deflating opening 30 minutes on Saturday.
It was Virginia Tech's defense in the first half that committed unnecessary mistakes, including two personal foul penalties.