#15Straight wins over the Hoos got me thinking about the cumulative score difference in those 15 games. Using College Football Reference for scoring information, I put together the chart below.
Some interesting things I discovered:
- Tech has never trailed by more than 7 points during the streak.
- The longest stretch where Tech held the lead or the score was tied was almost 194 minutes from the first half of the 2009 game until the second half of the 2012 game. The second longest stretch spanned the fourth quarter of the 2015 game into the fourth quarter of this year's game.
- The cumulative point differential topped out (so far) at 267 on the blocked punt touchdown in this year's game.
- Jarrett Boykin's recovery of a Ryan Williams fumble in the 2009 game put the total over the century mark.
- Bucky Hodges' punt block recovery in the end zone in 2014 put us over the 200 mark (for the first time). Joey Slye field goals in the first and fourth quarters of the 2015 game put us over the 200 mark again momentarily and for good.
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•The longest stretch where Tech held the lead or the score was tied was almost 194 minutes from the first half of the 2009 game until the second half of the 2012 game
38-0 bro
Of similar note:
what's the longest streak for consecutive quarters we shut them out?
It's got to be at least 6. We shut them out last season and the score at halftime this year was 14-0.
6, counting 38-0 bro
5 quarters twice
The longest shutout streak in our favor in the series happened in the early 30s and 39-40, in which we shut UVA out in back-to-back years
UVA holds the total streak record with 4 consecutive games from 1900-1903
Were those games legit back then or were they like most of Michigan's early wins. Oh you don't know what football is, we will teach you and beat you and then count it.
VT's first season was 1892 and UVA's was 1888. I would imagine by 1900 both teams new how to play.