{"id":299938,"date":"2026-10-05T05:30:06","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T05:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/299938\/"},"modified":"2026-10-05T05:30:06","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T05:30:06","slug":"hokies-look-to-build-on-final-drive-success-in-loss-to-pittsburgh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/299938\/","title":{"rendered":"Hokies look to build on final drive success in loss to Pittsburgh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BLACKSBURG, Va. (WCYB) \u2014 Virginia Tech fell in its home ACC opener on Friday; however, the offensive performance was a bright spot for the Hokies. <\/p>\n<p>Ethan Grunkemeyer threw for 434 yards and three touchdowns, while also leading the Hokies on a late drive to get in position for the game-winning field goal. <\/p>\n<p>Although the kick missed wide left, Head Coach James Franklin believes that his squad showed fight on the final drive. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was gutsy; we made some big plays in big moments,&#8221; Franklin said. &#8220;We work two-minute drives every single week, and we gave ourselves a chance to win the game.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Hokies will look to bounce back next week with a road trip to take on Cal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BLACKSBURG, Va. (WCYB) \u2014 Virginia Tech fell in its home ACC opener on Friday; however, the offensive performance&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":299939,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[73,75,74],"class_list":["post-299938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299938","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=299938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299938\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/299939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}