and the life of an athletic program. Sometimes you lose games you had no business losing. Army just took Oklahoma to overtime. The Sooners pulled it out in OT, but no way in the 21st century that West Point can hang with Oklahoma on the football field. But they did. Great job.

We Tech fans love to laud the 1995 Virginia Tech team as the type of team we still want to be. But that team opened the 1995 season with losses at Lane Stadium to Boston College and Cincinnati. Then the next week, they upset a ranked Miami team and finished winning 10 straight,.

Games like this are why you have to win with the same class with which you lose. Payback is a witch. It sucks to lose, but you gotta learn from it, and build on it.