The afternoon started off with some decent enough news for the Hokies. There weren’t a ton of missing starters from the lineup, Justin Hamilton was to coach his first game from the sideline, and it looked like the weather was a wet cool Fall drizzle.
The opening kickoff went to Carolina, and with a solid mix of intermediate passes with only one drop lasting more than 3 seconds, with some solid inside runs, Carolina marched down the field from the 25 to punch it through from the 2 yard line. The only real stop was a holding penalty on a pass play where Howell took longer than the 3 seconds that they averaged.