An earthquake and a hurricane?  OK, OK, we’ll bring back tailgate fever.  Enough already. You asked for it, so you better get fired up.  It’s game week, and we’ve got tailgate fever.  Let’s do this thing.  It takes a nation of millions to hold us back! So, where have we been you might ask?  Mostly[...] Continued Here >>

There is nothing like a come from behind win to get you excited.  That game was fun.  Really fun.  Suddenly and unexpectedly, we are fired up about football again.  A big thank you to the college football god who created the second half.  The bad news is we are a terrible first half team.  We’ve[...] Continued Here >>

by Chris Colston After Virginia Tech’s 41-30 victory over North Carolina State, coach Frank Beamer lumped it among the top five wins he’s had with the Hokies. Maybe he got caught up in the moment after the biggest comeback during his Tech tenure (17 points). Maybe we’ll look back on it and agree with him.[...] Continued Here >>

Friends, Hokies, Countrymen – we have heard your cries and curses.  Where’s my Hokie Update?  Where is the vitriol?  The indignation?  Where is the massive irrelevancy?  We understand your concern and are grateful for those of you who feared we were either no longer alive or institutionalized pursuant to court order.  The answer, of course,[...] Continued Here >>

Overrated NC State – they’ve played terrible defensive teams (except UCF) this year, which has skewed their offensive stats Wake Forest – just by being 2-2 these guys are overrated Underrated Virginia Tech – some of the best talent in ACC, can we overcome our own offensive coaches? Florida State – can they prove the[...] Continued Here >>

by Chris Colston Even before the East Carolina game, I was talking to a Virginia Tech insider looking ahead to Boston College. The Hokies were 0-2 at the time, and ECU had a powerful offense. But the Pirates’ porous defense and Tech’s backs-to-the-wall mentality made us feel like the Hokies would win that game. BC,[...] Continued Here >>

By Chris Colston www.chriscolston.com Maybe in another year, in another dimension, or another galaxy, Virginia Tech fans would take a 49-27 win over East Carolina for granted. But seeing as how cocky little James Madison strolled into Lane Stadium and whupped fanny, and ECU actually beat the Hokies two years ago in sweltering Charlotte (don’t[...] Continued Here >>

The college football gods are cruel.  It is a game of ups and downs, and that emotional roller coaster (along with tailgates and this girl) are why we care.  Heartbreaking losses are just part of the deal.  You signed up for this….if you can’t take it, go to UVA where losing is a way of[...] Continued Here >>

As they say before every season “We are all undefeated”…so in the spirit of that philosophy, sometimes at the beginning of a hopeful season you get caught up in the hype and the excitement and you go out on a limb…you lose a heartbreaker to Boise St and the limb cracks….then you turn around and[...] Continued Here >>

TailgateFever welcomes guest columnist Chris Colston who shares with us his observations on The Greatest Debacle. When James Madison tailback Jamal Sullivan took a little pass in the flat on third-and-17 and somehow went 77 yards for a touchdown, a voice in my head said, “If Tech was in danger of losing this game, that[...] Continued Here >>

If you want someone to blame, blame Jim Weaver.  The Boise State game wasn’t lost in the fourth quarter.  It wasn’t even lost in the first quarter.  It was lost six months ago when we moved this game from week four to week one because ESPN said so.  Weaver says we need to be a[...] Continued Here >>

Black seems to be all anyone wants to talk about this week.  Which is fine with us, because it is time to beat the Boise State Broncos black and blue.  Sure, there will be lots of Lou Holtz-esque double speak about watching out for Boise State later in this column.  They are the #5 team[...] Continued Here >>

It’s finally here…that time of year when you can take a big sigh of relief…tailgate plans are coming together, we can actually watch SportsCenter again because they have something to talk about other than baseball, wives and girlfriends are annoyed because fantasy football drafts are consuming us, rushing to finish the man-cave bathroom renovation that’s[...] Continued Here >>

The lull between the end of the regular season and the bowl game is tough and the never ending creation of crappy bowls hasn’t helped.  So, between suffering through the Marshall vs. Ohio game and not having Al Groh to kick around, this isn’t exactly the most wonderful time of the year anymore.  On the bowl issue,[...] Continued Here >>

Words are flying out like endless rain into a paper cup They slither while they pass , they slip away across the universe As we sit here on the precipice of yet another Commonwealth Cup match up, a series which our beloved Hokies lead 48-37-5, I can’t help but wonder two things: 1) why in[...] Continued Here >>

As we awoke from our tryptophan-induced slumber and rubbed the sleep from our eyes, it dawned on us that this season’s Virginia game is a little more fun-natured than usual.  In years past, with so much on the line, this game was very serious.  Now, it is just an opportunity to drop a good old[...] Continued Here >>

Just when you are about to give up, just when you’ve had enough, just when you start thinking to yourself, “I wonder what regular people do on Saturdays, maybe I will see,” tailgate fever steps in and you find yourself in a parking lot in College Park, Maryland having an unexpectedly great time.  Don’t worry,[...] Continued Here >>

The good news is there are only ten days until basketball season.  The bad news is that we will probably lose to UNC in that, too.  This sucks.  Our loss last Thursday was a full scale ultra-embarrassment.  We were again punished by an inferior team.  We again had ample scoring opportunities and wasted them all. [...] Continued Here >>

Facts are pesky little things (as is Nesbitt) and the fact is that game completely sucked.  It blew.  It bit the big one.  We threw away an essentially clear path to the ACC title game.  Let’s get on with this, because by the end of this column, we plan on being damn fired up about[...] Continued Here >>

At the current time, I’m in the middle of watching Oklahoma virtually dominate Texas, yet they’re about to go down 10-6 because they can’t freaking score and keep coughing up the ball. I swear, there’s been like eight plays reviewed since 3:38 to go in the half and there’s still over a minute left. One[...] Continued Here >>

There are games that are fun.  There are games that are really fun.  And then there is occasionally that special, rare game this is a badass, old-fashioned, hell of a good time.  Our 48-14 beatdown of the Boston College Eagle was the latter and almost enough to exorcise the demons of Matt Ryan.  At some[...] Continued Here >>

Good googly moogly we are excited about tomorrow night’s game.  Va. Tech vs. Boston College, Thursday night, ESPN.  We live for this.  Your #17 Va. Tech Hokies are 12-1 on Thursday nights (our only loss was to BC in 1995….sweet, sweet revenge shall be ours, Eagle!).  This is the defining moment of the 2006 season.  If we[...] Continued Here >>

Truly a historic day, we’re less than an hour away from NASA bombing the moon. That’s right. Say what you will about any current or impending U.S. military engagements, really an argument for another website. But even George W. Bush thinks bombing the moon is brazen. You’ve got some brass ones, NASA. Alright, on to other matters. On the heels[...] Continued Here >>

Weaver, how could you do this to us?  What about the Pulaski Accords?  We thought finally this war between tailgators and people who suck had come to an end.  What’s wrong with the mutually agreed upon semi-respectable 1:30 kickoff?  Don’t get us wrong, it’s no 3:30 game, but it is at least reasonable and rational.  A noon kickoff?  Most students will[...] Continued Here >>

The only thing better than beating Miami is beating cocky, arrogant, overconfident Miami.  Jacory Who?  Heisman what?  Swagger when?  Pink suit where?  Pimp cup how? All week all we heard was about how the U is back.  And they are.  Back to finishing second in the ACC Coastal.  For the better part of two decades,[...] Continued Here >>