Mine was catching a game Charlottesville on the way home to Thanksgiving break in 1993.
The cadavaliers' season was already decided. It was their final game (no post season)
so the stands were packed with Tech fans (at least a 2 to 1 ratio)
The game was over early but was never out of reach so alot of fans stayed til the end.
The greatest moment I've ever experienced as a HOKIE fan was the site of thousands of Tech fans (me being one of them) storming the field and stomping on it on it. For an otherwise meaningless game,
it was an extreme all out celebration of beating down the enemy on their own turf.
Short of taking the goal posts down, it is about the most effective way of humiliating
your arch rival and an ever so enjoyable way to do so!
Please share your favorite HOKIE football moment!
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By far and away the Miami game in 2003. Playing at home against the highly ranked hurricanes. Then storming the field after the win. D-Hall's fumble recovery TD and the image of that miami player dropping a sure fire TD was priceless. Plus it was a night game.
I was watching from home and threw my back out on D-Lo's fumble return.
Etched in my memory forever! GO HOKIES!
Miami 2003 - our ticket number was the 3rd number pulled from the hat, which meant our tickets were on the 1st row behind the band.
That's the last time the goal posts came down, and one of the only times that Main Street was closed off because of the street party.
Ahhh, the street party after that game...memories. I didn't get to sleep until about 7am...maybe later than that.
Absolutely unreal. For some reason, I remember seeing police officers on horses, but I think that must have been the copius amounts of alcohol putting that image in my head.
"Man, after that 2003 Miami game shit got so real that they had to bring in Mounties from Canada to keep it in line!"
I remember hearing about a VT mounted force. I remember a long stream of problems on the mgmt side though. Things like all of the officers were senior officers instead of officers with experience with horses. Just a mess.
It was actually the first time the goal posts were manually folded down... I have pictures on the field.
Didn't they lower them and guard them secret service style?
what was the point of lowering them if fans couldn't touch them?
Remember the big goofy plywood wrench shaped devices they used to lower them too?
all around dumb idea.
Nothing in my VT experience tops this game. #2 ranked Miami, VT coming off a heartbreaking loss to WVU the week before (the score was not indicative of how out of the game VT was in Morgantown, I was there in person), a true night game in Lane (believe it kids, they used to do it on Saturdays too?). The fans never wavered in the support of the team and if anything cheered harder because of the week before, they loved their Hokeis. Brock Berlin looking completly lost, VT throwing only 4 passes the whole game and just chewing Miami up on the ground, Halls STRIP TD that never hit the ground, the look on Larry Cokers face, Miami dropping a fake field goal TD in the endzone with no one being within 25 yards of the guy, the weather was awesome (warm that night), 2 different defensive touchdowns AND a block field goal (OLD SCHOOL VT FOOTBALL AT ITS FRANK BEAMER-BUD FOSTER BEST) the stadium going absolutely crazy from kickoff til the end of the game. There were games when things could have been like this again (Miami again when they took it to a top 5 team in Lane, 2006 maybe), but this one is one for the ages.
The now infamous words of the announcers on TV "they are jumping, they are screaming and it's been that way for the last 30 minutes" - was one of the only times I can remember Lane being practically FULL from that far out from kickoff.
I like the audio of Burnop's call of the Roscoe Parrish strip TD (can be heard in the Miami-VT teaser that Dozer dropped last week). "Hall says "Give it to me Roscoe, give it to me". Loudest I've ever heard the stadium, even louder than the Nebraska comeback.
A downvote, really? Are you Larry Coker's kid or something, or were you the TE who dropped the TD?
Probably a fat-finger slip. Chill.
Senior year 2003 Miami.... Not sure Lane will ever be close to what it was like that night.
For me it was 2011 Miami or 2009 Nebraska. I'd have to say Miami just because that last minute touchdown was right towards the north endzone, and from the band I could see the hole open up in the line. I was losing my shit as soon as Logan kept the ball.
Both of those games were nuts, but I have to give the Nebraska game the edge just because both teams were ranked and we really didn't know where we were as a football team. It was my freshman year and I remember Tyrod had been getting catching a lot of criticism and people were still down after the Bama loss. Tyrod just hung in there and made that win (and a very big one for the program too) happen. On the other hand, Logan was a total beast throughout the entirety of that Miami game, which was awesome to watch.
I also have to admit the LSU weekend in I believe it was 02? The whole riot downtown before the game was an experience in and of itself, plus KJ just running all over that LSU defense. That one run where he broke the guys ankles in the backfield was absurd.
Walking downtown with all the LSU RVs parked on the street was something else. We walked past one the night before the game and we were talking about how LSU sucked and the drunkard LSU fan screamed and yelled at us about our moms and sisters being whores all the way down the rest of the street. So silly.
When the LSU fans started arriving on campus on Tuesday and Wednesday of that week, you knew it was going to be a big game.
I think VT didn't know what to do, they never had RV's in the commuter lots almost a full week before a game before. If memory serves correct, they just told the students to deal with it and carry on. I remember parking and seeing a guy sitting in a lawn chair grilling at like 10 on a Wednesday drinking a beer. I was torn weather to go to class or ask him to toss me one and grab a chair.
I went to my morning classes that Thursday. I went back to the apartment for lunch and then back to the Price's Fork lot for my afternoon classes. After circling the lot for 30 minutes trying to find a spot, I said screw it and just went downtown and started drinking. I didn't go to class till the following Tuesday...
2004 vs WVU. So many WVU fans were there for they were top ten ranked. They were walking all over campus before the game shouting F the Hokies and acting like typical WVU trash. When the game was over the North Endzone rushed the field and ran straight to their section in the south endzone to chant Lets Go Hokies. Their fans starting tossing any cups or trash they could find at us.
If the parameters weren't "while i was a student" I would say Miami 03 (attended as a senior in high school) or the Miracle in Blacksburg vs Nebraska (first game back as an alumni)
That was awesome. I was in that pack of VT fans. I believe this was a Marcus Vick game. The look on their faces was priceless.
Nope. That was '05. This one was Tech's first season in the ACC. Randall was still under center. Also, Tech never scored an offensive TD that game but STILL beat them.
My memory has failed me, I remember Vick Jr carving up WVU, but I guess it was the following year in Morgantown. Man, Randall was the man, underappreciated leader.
#6 WVU and unranked VT was favored!! I swear this is true.... After the game we were in the front of Solar House (early 00's Hokies know where I'm talking about) near Harrell Street. We drug a couch into the road and were dousing it with lighter fluid when a fire truck pulled up.
Quickly we told the firemen the most intelligent thing we could think of " it's not what it looks like". The two firemen looked at each other and looked At us and in unison said "burn that son of a bitch!"
And so it happened.
I shit u not.
Ok, so was this BEFORE or AFTER WVU got the wrap of burning couches and setting fire to their town for losing to us/beating us?
After. WELL after.
It was after WVU gained the national reputation for burning couches... We did it very mockingly.
Good, I would have been very sad if it were prior to their...antics.
I lived in the solar house and left a couch there in 1994... It just might have been the same one.
Awesome story! - GO HOKIES! ~8)
Was the solar house the same as the Tau Delta fraternity house on Houston Street?
no
its the white quadraplax at corner of Houston and Harrel.
google street view:
https://maps.google.com/maps?ie=UTF-8&layer=c&z=17&iwloc=A&sll=37.224139...
Ahhh yes, thank you. I did end up at a party or two there while in school - the jungle juice always made things a little hazy
I made it into SI for that game. I'm kinda a big deal.
I was on the intro to SportsCenter once. We were playing Pitt and it was Halloween and we were shirtless, bodies painted, and pumpkins carved like helmets on our heads (cool, I know). I wish I could find a copy of that somewhere.
As a student?
The best moment would be Tyrod to Coale vs. Nebraska...
Best overall game would be Miami in the rain in '09 I believe it was.
Logan's run up the middle against Miami in '11 was absolutely epic...probably tied with Tyrod to Coale but i was alumni status.
These two are my favorite two moments as a VT fan. Neither happened before I graduated in 2005
2013 against Marshall
2012 against FSU (was on the field, got a picture with Samantha Steele)
2011 against Miami
2010 against GT
2013 against FSU (crossing fingers)
You gotta get rid of 2012 FSU (she's a Ponder now- let it go)
lovin' 2013 FSU though
She never should've taken Ponder's name. Samantha Steel is a name made for porn.
Maybe that's why she took Ponder? She went to Liberty. And she's an Erin Andrews, not a Jenn Sterger.
how long do you think she pondered that decision?
bad puns are bad...I'll see myself out
I was lucky enough to be a student during the First Coming of Vick. Pretty much that entire season was magical. Being at the BC game where we locked up the undefeated season while watching the scores from the Nebraska game and realizing that we were going to the championship game right then and there was the single most awesome thing from the season. Leading into the 4th in the NC game is up there too, but without the win to seal the deal.
I was at that game vs. BC - remember Beamer's speech after he was carried by the players. Wasn't this the game with the iconic sunset?
Also was at the Syracuse game that year when we thrashed them 62-0 and the Miami game which was just as epic.
Dad was a Hokie '76, so I've been fortunate enough to have been to games since 1990.
Yeah, that was the sunset game.
99 was also my freshman year - toss up between the Miami and Cuse games because they were both just complete ass whoopings!
Consolation prize to the Thursday night game against Clemson. That game was close until Corey Moore completely took over late and the D scored twice (I think?) in the 4th quarter. It was my first night game in Lane, and subsequently, my first (of very many) skipped classes happened the following Friday morning. Good times!
I'll second this. I recall that this game was right after Thanksgiving and I had to go down earlier than I normally would have. The campus was dead, it was rainy and cold, but the team ended up with a victory that sent us to the National Championship game. That the day ended with one of the most beautiful sunsets at VT was icing on the cake.
A close second would be the October 16th shellacking of Syracuse. They came in ranked #16, it was College Gameday's first visit to the VT campus, and we ended up crushing them 62-0. At the time, it was one of the largest blowouts of a ranked opponent. Truly epic.
This was the season that spoiled all other VT seasons...
The road trip to New Orleans with friends for the '95 Sugar Bowl victory over Texas.
Another classic. Remember how arrogant the Texas fans were? I loved every drunken minute of watching us beat them. I've hated Texas ever since then.
Tyrod to Danny vs nebraska in 09. The entire Miami rain game the same year. David wilsons kickoff return for a TD against GT in 2010. God I loved being in the MV's to get to see all that in person
An oldie but a goodie: 1990 VT over #17 UVA, 38-13. UVA comes into Blacksburg after losing the #1 ranking to GT the week before and gets utterly trounced by the Hokies. Vaughn Hebron runs toss sweep after toss sweep and cannot be stopped. That was Beamer's first win over UVA at a time when (hard to believe) it seemed impossible to beat UVA or even to compete at their level.
I was a sophmore and had never stormed the field before. I even got to participate in the now extinct joy of tearing down the goalposts. When I tell my kids about tearing down goalposts, it seems to be the most absurd thing in the world to them . It really was in retrospect, but damn was it fun.
Side story regarding goal post storming:
My younger sister's HS band got money by having parents volunteer as security at Duke football games (yeah, it's that bad). This is in 2002 or so.
When Duke beat ECU, the students stormed the field. The "security" gave a token resistance then let the students have the goal posts. My dad was at the opposite end of the field (the open end of the horseshoe) and after about 10 minutes of watching the students struggle to bring down the goal posts, he quipped to the cops next to him "Clearly not an engineering school." Cracked them up 'til they were crying.
That was the only game that was sold out in my entire 5 years on campus(Arch).
It was the Saturday after Thanksgiving so the students made an effort to come
back early. Vaughn and Freeman were fun to watch!
Oct 18, 1980....Tech beat LOLUVA on a cold rainy day 30-0, in an under-construction Lane Stadium. Glorious!
As a student:
2009 Nebraska
2007 FSU
2010 Miami (I was in Miami's student section... long story)
2008 Maryland (Evans went HAM)
Pre-student:
2004 WVU (Mom was in the bathroom for the field goal block, just like for the 99 yard td drive against Duke earlier this year)
1999 JMU (MV7's debut, where he flipped into the endzone and sprained his ankle)
2001 Miami (I know we lost, but the adrenaline rush of coming soooooo close to tying one of the best college teams ever....)
Post-student:
2012 GT (first OT game in Lane)
2013 Marshall (First multi-OT game in Lane)
2013 Alabama (My first neutral-site game)
2013 FSU ???
I'm excited to possibly play against FSU too, but we REALLY need to temper expectations and focus on UMD and LOLUVA. Last time we looked ahead (to Miami) we lost to Duke and BC.
The "???" was because of that unknown. Obviously we need to take care of business and get some help along the way, but if we make it to Charlotte I fully expect it to be a great experience, win or lose.
And besides, focusing on Maryland, that's the team's job. My only focus needs to be on selecting which variety of bourbon to consume pre-game.
Miami 2011 no doubt, if I had been a student during that nebraska game it woulda been a toughie between the two but good grief that miami 2011 game was a thriller from start to finish and i get goosebumps just thinking about it, YAY FOR SKIPPING FALL BREAK!
Any time we beat WVU in Lane, the Texas A&M Hurricane game just because of the sheer insanity of the weather, the 03 Miami game, the LSU riot game (I think the only time I've scene main street closed was the night before). Actually broke two bones in my leg rushing the field after the insane Nebraska game (we never get those miracle comebacks in my memory), so I count that as one of the best games, but one of the worst mornings-after.
Did anyone go to the 1995 UVA game?
"Jim Druckenmiller has engineere the greatest comeback that I have ever seen."
turkey leg for the Drukenmiller sighting!!
Just to shake it up
WORST Experience:
2003 in Morgantown , the entire WVU fanbase can kiss my ass forever for the treatment of VT fans by WVU fans
2005 Miami beatdown in Lane with 2 top 5 teams @ night with College Gameday in the House..humbled
2006 Peach bowl, up 21-3 at half against UGA in ATL .. then not so much..I can still hear the barking from the UGA fans
2007 @ LSU..Worst....loss...ever
2007 Matty Ice Miracle (being soaked to the bone started to feel even worse) p.s. VT ended the season #3 in the BCS
Hey Debbie Downer...shake it up when your alone OK
Come on man, we just beat Miami with precise crossing routes, a tone of fumble-luck, 4 rushing TD's, a turnover free game from LT and we need Duke to lose just one to be back where we wanted to be. Nothing can be too down this week.
I wasn't a student, but 1998 Temple (that game never happened btw) and 2002 Miami - Never looked at Ernest Wilford the same after that.
2007 Boston College. After getting soaked to the bone and having a crappy time, I got a call from the cops around 1:30 Friday morning. I was still living in O'Shag at the time, but that night I was staying with a friend of mine in her townhouse because my dorm roommate was an absolute nightmare. My dorm roommate called the cops on me over a 2' television cable cord...looong story
2008 Orange Bowl against Kansas?
2010 James Madison in the rain..again
2012 Sugar Bowl against michigan (not as a student)
I sat through 'em all.
Edit: 2013 maryland.
its supposed to be best moments as a student hok13 ;)
The comment this was made under started a little sub-thread about worst experiences as a Hokie fan
I want to hear the story about the 2' tv cable
So do I.
Where do I begin...
not all of these as a student obviously, my single favorite would have to be 2003 Miami but...
- 2002 LSU & going downtown afterwards
- 2003 Miami, the craziest I've ever seen Lane
- 2004 Miami, winning our first ACC title when everyone picked Miami
- 2005 blocked FG for a TD against GT
- 2005 ACCCG - sucks we lost but it was cool to be a part of the first one ever
- 2005 & 2011 - dominating LOLUVA in cville
- 2006 Clemson - Lane was nuts that night
- 2007 opener against ECU, first game after April 16...Lane just had a different feel that day
- 2007 - finally beating FSU and paying back BC and Matty Ice
- 2009 Nebraska - the moment Danny Coale pulled that catch in and Lane erupted
- 2010 ACCCG win over FSU
- 2011 Miami, end of the game was nuts
- 2013 Miami - wasn't there in person for this one but it just felt great
2009 Miami beatdown in the rain.
2009 Nebraska Miracle. Right after Coale's catch the student section went insane. I ended up on the ground under a 10 person dog pile a couple rows down from my seats.
Cadavaliers. Well done pajokie.
2010 Georgia Tech. David Wilson. Enough said.
Well since Iv've only been able to be at 5 games as a student (new guy right here ;) ) I guess that gives me limited choicesI can pick when Facyson burst onto the scene, when we beat pitt because of DadiBut I'm going with the rain soaked Marshall game of 2013. Most fun I've had at a game as a student but then again I don't have many choices right now but then again Il be here for the games vs tOSU and the Battle of Bristol :)
You guys are young and soft. Back in the day, the 70's you know, we were tougher. Sometimes we even got after VMI, Richmond, and William & Mary. Sometimes they got after us.
At least the girls were thinner then.
If we're talking as a student, Clemson game 1987. First home game for Coach Beamer and myself, as it was also my freshman year. Clemson beat the snot out of us, but I had an awesome date for the game who later became the lovely and talented Mrs. Leonard.
Best overall? Florida State 2007 - My youngest two boys' first time at Lane, 3rd and 31, and Kam and Co. LAYING THE SMACK.
1 - Miami 2011 - It was my victory lap semester and I believe my first or second game in the North Endzone, so being appropriately inebriated, yet still able to remember most of the game and definitely the last 5 or 6 minutes of the game definitely stick out.
2a - Nebraska 2009 - From my seats in the South Endzone I could see Coale open (duh) then entire time and Tyrod bought enough time that I even started jumping up and down that he was wide open. Then the throw to Dyrell that ended it was right in front of my section so it was amazing.
2b - Miami 2009 - The very next week, being completely soaked and watching us destroy 'da U' in the rain was a great game to be at.
Yep, '09 Nebraska for me. "He did it Mikey! Tyrod did it!"
I loved the 07 FSU game just because the whole stadium did their damn chop when it was clear.we had the win.
if memory serves right wasnt that beamers first win over bowden?
Yes. Yes it was. And it was glorious.
Miami and aTM in 2003. Sunday game vs LSU in 2002. Syracuse 1997.
you can't have multiple favorites!!!
that's like being on #teampie, #teamcake, #teamcookies, #teamicecream and #teamdessert all at the same time...that shi* just doesn't fly around here
Too many to name. I was at VT for 10 years in all, so here goes (in chronological order, because I can't choose a favorite):
1. 2003 Miami - enough said.
2. 2003 Texas A&M - hurricane!
3. 2004 WVU - the North EZ was literally quaking under us.
4. 2006 Clemson - I ran up and down my section with a friend, screaming for people to make as much noise as possible during timeouts, just to screw with Clemson. We were so nuts, my legs gave out on the walk home and had to have a friend drive me the rest of the way. I also couldn't speak for two days.
5. 2007 ECU - too many emotions, but it was a beautiful and wonderful day.
6. 2007 FSU - just a fun one, and mocking them with their chant was priceless.
7. 2009 Miami - Pickory Harris looked sad that day.
8. 2009 Nebraska - enough said.
9. 2010 GT - DW4 running that kick back was epic.
10. 2011 Miami - LT3.
...
Lol so much for only one favorite
I prefer to think of my time at VT as one, extended, awesome moment in time.
I also make my own rules.
turkey leg for you sir
#teamallthethings
1995 vs. Syracuse. Donaven McNabb came in w/ all the press and spent the game running for his life. 31 to 7 Hokies win. I think we clinched our first Big East Championship in that game. People were throwing oranges and sugar cubes on the field at the end.
2006 (freshman year) - Clemson. My first Thursday night game in Blacksburg.
2007 (sophomore year) - ACCCG. Wasn't there, but beating BC was sweet, sweet revenge. I still hate Matt Ryan.
2008 (junior year) - UVA. My first UVA game. I worked at 3 am on Black Friday then drove 6 hours to Blacksburg. And then froze to death at the game. But it was glorious.
2009 (senior year) - tie between Nebraska (first game with my now-husband, rushing the field) and Miami (just beating those bitches down in a semi-monsoon).
2009 Nebraska is a popular choice, but I remember 58 minutes of piss-poor football before Danny Coale happened.
My choice is the 2010 ACCCG win over FSU. Beating the Noles and completing the undefeated ACC season was something special.
Doing their silly little chant back at them while their fans streamed for the exits in the fourth quarter was particularly satisfying, I thought.
I can't wait for a chance to do this again. I want to get there so, so, bad
I would say this might be my favorite game because it was FSU, and we got to do their stupid chop back at them. I wholeheartedly agree. I hate that chant. I watch games and constantly think "How could even FSU fans not think this was annoying? You just repeat different sounds of "o" every 10 seconds!"
Doing the mock chop chant is ALWAYS special. Never gets old.
I just wanted to say that I've been watching this
And this
I remember Tech had gone 2 yrs without beating the Hoos. MV7 FINALLY broke that bitch.
Classic Ron Franklin calling a game - right in the feels. Comparing him to the jackwagons calling games today is just unfair.
Franklin was good....isn't he the guy who was dismissed for some really sexist comments made to a sideline reporter or such?
Definitely 09 Nebraska. I remember (it was one of my last memories from that day) the snap, watching Danny Coale get open jumping up and down screaming and everyone else doing the same and just losing my shit when he caught it.
09 Miami was also great. But that was just great cause it was just a giant middle finger to da U. The Nebraska game was just amazing.
Favorite Moment as a student, is the BC game in 99. Watching sugar cubes rain down like snow was awesome...
Oh, where to begin.
Clemson '06- first night game as a freshman and just a great experience
Miami '09-in the rain and it was glorious
Nebraska '09- I don't remember much of the game until Danny Coale caught that pass.
as an alum:
Miami '11- I happened to be sitting with Miami fans (don't ask) and it was great to tell them at the end that it "sucks to be U"
Before the ACCCG against FSU in Charlotte, the people next to us had a 2 foot high ice sculpture of a arrowhead (or spearhead). After Tyrod went nuts and the game was won, we walked back from the stadium to where they were sitting and said "This is ours now". They didn't even say a word. We carried it a few blocks towards the bars before smashing it in the street to great cheers from the other Hokie fans. Tyrod was spectacular that day.
it that happens again make sure you post the video..
lets!
The defeated ambivalence of the 'noles fans make this story spectacular!
I can just hear the ice crashing in the street and it slowly melting
into the tears of generations of Seminole fans.
exceptional!!!!!
lets
How do you post a picture. I got a good snapshot of the antics
can't figure it out
http://www.thekeyplay.com/content/2013/october/6/help-embedding-pics-etc
URL has to be something public, i.e. not Facebook or other sites that require a login.
And a Turkey Leg to you, good sir, for your troubles. I'll get that photo up, it was great
I was the sports editor of the CT in 1999, so I was standing on the VT sideline when Shayne Graham's kick sailed through. The shower of bottles and batteries from the Morganhole faithful only made it sweeter.
That night we drank beers with a despondent Brad Lewis (WVU's QB that played his nuts off that game). His quote was "Shayne Graham made himself a lot of money with that kick".
I haven't experienced the M-hole fans up close. they sound like... well, they sound like they're from West VA.
lets
Thought Marc Bulger was under center for the 'Eers then.
The miracle in Morgantown...I remember watching that game in the dorms and when the kick sailed through the uprights, you could hear shouting all over campus.
I've watched the pixelated online video versions of the last two minutes...many a time.
I'd say the 2007 Season overall was a great Hokie Football moment. The 2009 Orange Bowl victory over Cincinnati and the dramatic 2009 victories over Nebraska and the U are definitely up there, as well.
'07 game in Clemson... because Fuck Clemson, that's why. Also, the last of the great Beamerball games.
YES! Although my favorite moments are Tyrod to Open vs. Nebraska and Logan Sneak TD against Miami, the whole Clemson game at Clemson on which, I believe, was a Thursday night, was rip-roaring fun from start to finish. If you haven't experienced the replay, I highly recommend it.
It was a night game... on a Saturday! What!?!?
I grew up close to Clemson, my parents still live there, and about half my graduating class became Tigers, so I fucking hate Clemson and enjoyed the shit out of that game. The last couple of years were a bit brutal for me...
Yes. Indeed because f-k Klempsun.
Nebraska..or playing miami in 2009 in a hurricane, when they were coming to town ranked, with a ton of hype surrounding jacory harris (as usual), and their players said they liked playing in a hostile environment..and boy did we give it to 'em.
As for moments 2011 MIA is mentioned alot, but
no one mentioned this moment in particular
(or I didn't notice)
Mine won't be a popular one but Last years Russell Athletic Bowl. Me and my girlfriend rode down to orlando with a sunshine tours group of Hokie fans from the NRV. Really enjoyed my time and would highly recommend it to anyone. Even though the game wasn't the greatest we had a blast. Nothing better than a bus full of Hokie fans
1983 UVa game in Charlottesville. Freshman year, playing in the MV drumline. 48-0.
Since this is my first semester as a student, I gotta say the Marshall game. That game had everything, triple overtime, blocked kicks, logan going HAM at the end, and almost a fat guy touchdown
As a student, it was probably any part of that 1999 season.
An unknown Michael Vick somersaulting into the endzone vs. JMU.
Gameday coming to campus twice that season.
Going to chemistry class drunk before the Clemson game because we were scared of an attendance quiz.
62-0 vs. Syracuse.
The Miracle in Morgantown, and all of Blacksburg going crazy at the same time when Shane Graham hit that field goal.
Beating BC, Frank Beamer on a makeshift stage screaming "How many of y'all am I going to see in New Orleans?"
I would have to say that my best Hokie football moment from when I was a student was for the game that never happened. My first ever game as a student was the 2000 Lightning Bowl against Georgia Tech. I came to VT to get my MBA and I had never experienced big time college athletics. My undergraduate college was lucky to field an ultimate frisbee intramural squad. Before the season started I was lucky enough to have met a guy who has become one of my best friends, he was a straight through grad student who had been going to VT for 5+ years at that point. He took me under his wing and taught me all the great aspects of Hokie football - smuggling airplane bottles tucked into socks, taped to inside pant legs, buried under 5 layers of rain gear; Stick it In, Stick it In, Stick it In; 3rd down Key Play; 4th Quarter Hokey Pokey; Never Sit; Quiet on Offense, Unleash holy hell on Defense; WIN - What's Important Now, the Lunch Pail; Beamerball.
I've been a season ticket holder ever since. I've gotten older, I sit occasionally when the TV time out guy is on the field now, but I'll never forget that "game". There were 56,000 of us all packed under the stadium hoping to get that game started.
A turkey leg to you and a turkey leg to your best friend. Sometimes, I think the students these days need a refresher course on gameday etiquette.
Lee Corso will never forget that game either, I think he checks the weather report before he picks the Hokies now.
"I don't know what a HOKIE is, But GOD is one of 'em!" -Lee Corso
2013 UVA ... (not as a student)
I believe the best is yet to come
Miami 2011 hands down. I was in the NEZ in some pretty kickass seats and I was going back and forth with this douchey Miami fan the whole game. After halftime we were just stupidly pumped and the last five minutes of that game we were just going all out. After they played "Enter Sandman" we just lost it. It was incredible and once we won and settled down we just sat there for a good 15 minutes to calm down and catch our breath. The best part was as we left we saw we bent the bleachers.