Postgame Notes vs. Virginia Tech – Vanderbilt College Athletics – Official Athletics Web site

POSTGAME NOTES

Vanderbilt Commodores at Virginia Tech Hokies | Blacksburg, Va. | Sept. 6, 2025

Vanderbilt 44, Virginia Tech 20

TEAM NOTES

• Vanderbilt received the toss and elected to defer. Four captains represented the Commodores at midfield: Diego Pavia, Langston Patterson, Yilanan Oauttara and Khordae Sydnor
• The win marks the fourth-straight season Vandy has began the season 2-0
• Under head coach Clark Lea, the Commodores are 17-0 when holding a lead on the finish of the third quarter
• The 44-20 remaining rating represents the most important margin of victory after trailing by 10 factors or extra in no less than the final 80 seasons for the Dores
• It is Vanderbilt’s first comeback of 10 or extra since Northern Illinois in 2022
• The final time Vanderbilt picked up a nonconference highway win over a Power 4 opponent was a 41-7 victory at Wake Forest in 2011
• Vanderbilt posted 262 mixed speeding yards, essentially the most since totaling 264 towards Kentucky in 2022
• The 490 yards of complete offense is essentially the most for the Commodores since ending with 601 towards Hawai’i in 2022
• With a fumble restoration within the fourth quarter, the Commodore protection has pressured a turnover in four-straight video games
• The Dores notched their first second-half shutout since Auburn in 2024, holding the Hokies to only 21 complete yards of offense within the remaining two quarters

PLAYER NOTES

• Graduate Diego Pavia’s two passing touchdowns vs. Virginia Tech marks his third-straight sport with a number of scores via the air
• It is Pavia‘s tenth sport at Vanderbilt with a number of passing touchdowns
• After producing 254 yards of complete offense, Pavia now has seven video games with 250 complete yards or extra. It is his first time doing so in back-to-back video games since Georgia State and Missouri final season
• Pavia strikes to No. 10 in program historical past for profession passing touchdowns with 25
• Junior Sedrick Alexander scored in back-to-back contests for the primary time since producing a landing in three straight video games to open the 2024 season
• It is the third profession sport for Alexander with 70 or extra speeding yards and the primary time he has reached that mark in consecutive contests
• Alexander‘s two touchdowns marks the third multi-score sport of his profession
• Junior Makhilyn Young led the group in speeding with a career-high 95 yards
• Young‘s 62-yard rush within the fourth quarter is the longest of his profession and the longest play of the season for Vanderbilt
• Junior Tre Richardson hauled within the first landing of his Vandy profession whereas additionally tying the team-high in receiving yards with 54
• Junior Blaze Berlowitz tossed his first landing as a Commodore and the second of his profession
• Sophomore Brycen Coleman recorded his first profession landing, scoring on a 54-yard catch and run
• Sophomore CJ Heard generated the primary sack of his collegiate profession
• Junior Brock Taylor is now tied for the fourth-longest energetic streak of consecutive subject targets made throughout Division I FBS after drilling his thirteenth straight
• Senior Nick Rinaldi led the group in tackles with six, together with 2.5 tackles for a loss and a sack
• Junior Jaylon Stone recorded the primary pressured fumble of his profession
• Cornerback/large receiver Martel Hight completed with three tackles and caught one move for 14 yards