....Everybody struggles with GT in this conference. Seriously? They got 5x times the defense you have AND 5x the coordinator in Bud Foster.
this isn't a very good GT team.
VT is still ranked, playing for pride, and to stay in the top 25, which always looks good to recruits and is good for monetary reasons as well.
But VT just isn't that good. Their defensive stats were skewed by the opponents they played. ND has a much better defense. Don't let yards allowed cloud your judgement. Teams got a lot of yards when the game was already out of hand and ND had backups in the game, usually starting mid third quarter.