BLACKSBURG, Va. — Jai Patel made a 24-yard discipline objective with 1:56 left to raise Rutgers to a 26-23 victory over Virginia Tech on Saturday.
Patel’s discipline objective capped a 68-yard drive after Rutgers (3-0) squandered a 16-point lead coming into the fourth quarter however held on to report its first highway win of the season and tenth straight nonconference win.
Virginia Tech (2-2) took over at its personal 25-yard line on a Patel discipline objective, however on the third play of the drive, quarterback Kyron Drones’ go was intercepted by Rutgers’ Robert Longerbeam to seal the victory for the Scarlet Knights.
The Hokies tied the sport at 23 after scoring touchdowns and scoring two factors on back-to-back possessions within the fourth quarter. Bhayshul Tuten scored each of the Hokies’ touchdowns on runs of 14 and a pair of yards.
Kyle Monangai and Samuel Brown V mixed for 144 dashing yards and three touchdowns for Rutgers, which completed with 187 dashing yards.
Tuten rushed for 122 yards to guide the Hokies.
Meals to take dwelling
Rutgers: Greg Schiano made a curious resolution within the third quarter, electing to throw the ball on fourth-and-goal from the 1 with a 23-7 lead and failing to transform.
It was one among many scoring alternatives — the Scarlet Knights missed two discipline targets and misplaced a fumble on the Virginia Tech 5 — that Rutgers squandered in a recreation it ought to have simply received.
However the Scarlet Knights survived and headed into the Huge Ten undefeated.
Virginia Tech: The Hokies waited too late to get going on this one and it price them.
They turned the ball over thrice and could not cease, losing time of possession badly (39:20-20:40).
All of it added as much as one other non-conference loss to a Energy 4 opponent.
Virginia Tech has misplaced 12 straight non-conference video games to Energy 4 opponents and Notre Dame.
