{"id":299960,"date":"2026-10-05T07:30:35","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T07:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/299960\/"},"modified":"2026-10-05T07:30:35","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T07:30:35","slug":"virginia-tech-football-vs-pittsburgh-preview-betting-odds-how-to-watch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/299960\/","title":{"rendered":"Virginia Tech football vs. Pittsburgh: Preview, betting odds, how to watch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The Virginia Tech Hokies face the Pittsburgh Panthers on Friday night under the lights at Lane Stadium. The college football world will be watching Blacksburg, as it should be, as the 4-0 Panthers arrive at Lane Stadium to face the 4-0 Hokies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">It\u2019s James Franklin vs. Pat Narduzzi. When Franklin was at Penn State, he faced off against Narduzzi and Pitt four times, winning the past three meetings. That rivalry between the two head coaches has now become a conference rivalry.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">There\u2019s also a big-time quarterback matchup: Pitt\u2019s Mason Heintschel vs. Virginia Tech\u2019s Ethan Grunkemeyer. This game has so many storylines, but it could be decided here. Both quarterbacks have done a great job of limiting mistakes through four games. Whoever makes the first mistake on Friday night could cost his team the game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">We previewed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gobblercountry.com\/virginia-tech-football\/31665\/virginia-tech-hokies-preview-pittsburgh-by-numbers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pittsburgh by the numbers<\/a>. Now, it\u2019s time for our full preview ahead of Saturday\u2019s ACC opener for both teams.<\/p>\n<p>3 keys to a Virginia Tech victory<\/p>\n<p>How to watch, betting odds<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Virginia Tech Hokies face the Pittsburgh Panthers on Friday night under the lights at Lane Stadium. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":299961,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[73,75,74,123235],"class_list":["post-299960","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\/299960","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=299960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299960\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/299961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}