{"id":298706,"date":"2026-10-02T23:38:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T23:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/298706\/"},"modified":"2026-10-02T23:38:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T23:38:13","slug":"virginia-tech-vs-pittsburgh-game-chat-live-updates-from-week-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/298706\/","title":{"rendered":"Virginia Tech vs. Pittsburgh game chat: Live updates from Week 5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The Virginia Tech Hokies (4-0) host the Pittsburgh Panthers (4-0) at Lane Stadium on Friday night. The Hokies and Panthers renew their old rivalry dating back to the Big East days, as they look to keep pace with the Miami Hurricanes in ACC play. Both Virginia Tech and Pitt are 1-0 in the ACC. This is Pitt\u2019s first road game of the 2026 season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Tonight\u2019s matchup features two excellent young quarterbacks: Ethan Grunkemeyer (Virginia Tech) and Mason Heintschel (Pittsburgh). Together, the two quarterbacks have thrown only one interception and thrown for 21 touchdowns so far this season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">You can find our official game preview <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gobblercountry.com\/virginia-tech-football\/31683\/virginia-tech-football-pittsburgh-preview-betting-odds-how-to-watch\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. You can also take a closer look at the Panthers by the numbers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gobblercountry.com\/virginia-tech-football\/31665\/virginia-tech-hokies-preview-pittsburgh-by-numbers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. The Hokies enter tonight\u2019s game as slight 2.5-point favorites. VT and Pitt last played in 2023, with the Hokies coming away victorious.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Stay right here for the latest news, notes, injury updates and analysis below. Chat with us throughout Friday night\u2019s game.<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gobblercountry.com\/virginia-tech-football\/31614\/virginia-tech-hokies-boston-college-game-chat-live-updates-week-4#comments\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Virginia Tech Hokies (4-0) host the Pittsburgh Panthers (4-0) at Lane Stadium on Friday night. The Hokies&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":298707,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[73,75,74,123235],"class_list":["post-298706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-virginia-tech-football"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298706\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/298707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}