Virginia Tech vs Stanford: How to Watch, Listen To, and Live Stream Saturday's Game + Betting Odds
Virginia Tech and Stanford will face off for the second time in history and this is coming after Stanford made the move this offseason to the ACC. This matchup will be an interesting one, as the Hokies are coming off a heartbreaking finish against Miami and Stanford is coming off a tough loss to Clemson last weekend.
Virginia Tech and Stanford have similar play styles at the quarterback position, both are duo-threat quarterbacks who can run or pass. The teams are very similar in their game plans, as they have similar stats coming into this game and are both middle-of-the-pack teams in their respective conference. Virginia Tech's total pass yards per game is 190.6, and Stanford's pass yards per game is 196.5, Virginia Tech's points per game is 30.4, and Stanford's points per game is 27.0.
Predicting and betting sites have the Hokies as the clear 7.5-point favorite heading into this matchup this weekend. ESPN has VT as a 7.5-point favorite and their matchup predictor has VT with a 59.3% chance of winning with Stanford's being 40.7%.
The Hokies are set to play Stanford on Saturday, Oct. 5 at 3:30 P.M. ET at Stanford Stadium.
Here's how you can watch, listen to, and follow along with today's matchup between the Hokies and Stanford.
TV: ACC Network
- Play-by-play: Chris Cotter
- Analyst: Mark Herzlich
- Sideline Reporter: Coley Harvey
- Mobile App: SlingTV, Fubo, ESPN
- Online: ESPN.com, ESPN mobile app, GETACCN.com
Radio: Virginia Tech Sports Network
- Play-by-Play: Bill Roth
- Analyst: Mike Burnop
- Sideline Reporter: Zach Mackey
- In Blacksburg: ESPN Blacksburg (93.1 FM, 97.1 FM, 105.9 FM, 810 AM)
- Across the DMV: Visit HokieSports.com for station affiliate list
- Mobile Apps: Virginia Tech HokieSports, TuneIn, 106.7 The Fan, Audacy
- Online: ESPNBlacksburg.com, hokiesports.com
- Live Stats: HokieSports.com
This has not been the start that the Hokies wanted to the season, but they have a chance to start to get things back on track if they can win on Saturday. While they did lose to Miami last week, the Hokies showed signs of being the team that was getting so much hype at the beginning of the year. They were running the ball very well, getting pressure on the quarterback, and forcing turnovers against one of the nation's best offenses. The question will be if the Hokies can put the ending of last week's game behind them and go to the West Coast and get a win against a Stanford team that has been competitive in every game they have played this year.
Virginia Tech is the favorite coming into this game and Bleacher Report's David Kenyon has the Hokies winning, but by a closer margin than the spread would have you believe. Kenyon is projecting a 31-28 win for the Hokies.
Bill Connelly's SP+ has Virginia winning by nine points on Saturday. SP+ is projecting that Virginia Tech wins by a score of 32-23 and it gives the Hokies a 72% chance to win the game on Saturday.
What exactly is SP+? Here is how Connelly himself describes it:
"As always, these are based on three primary factors: returning production (final rankings for which you can find at the bottom of this piece), recent recruiting and recent history. How good have you been recently? Whom do you have coming back? How good are the players replacing those you don't have coming back? That's loosely what we ask when we're setting expectations for a team; it's also what these projections attempt to do objectively.
As always: SP+ is a tempo- and opponent-adjusted measure of college football efficiency. It is a predictive measure of the most sustainable and predictable aspects of football, not a résumé ranking, and, along those same lines, these projections aren't intended to be a guess at what the AP Top 25 will look like at the end of the year. These are simply early offseason power rankings based on the information we have been able to gather to date."
What the Hokies have to try and do now is to take the good things they did against Miami and improve upon them while not letting the end-of-the-game decision by the officials linger and affect them when they travel to Stanford next Saturday. This team could still have a nice season, even though the margin for error has shrunk pretty drastically over the first five weeks
There is a reason this team is 2-3 though and part of that is inconsistency. The ending of the Miami could be a galvanizing moment for the team for the rest of the year or they could have it affect them the rest of the season and put a bowl game in jeopardy. That is the No.1 thing to watch with this team going forward the rest of the way.
Kahlil McCuller joined the Sports Illustrated team in summer 2024 and is a Sports Media major at Virginia Tech. Covering College Baseball, College Basketball, and College Football for the Virginia Tech Hokies. Prior to this Kahlil worked pregame radio shows for Virginia Tech Basketball teams on 105.3 The Bear and started his own basketball podcast on Spotify called "Fleeky Hoops Podcast" and covered March Madness for the Hokies Women's Basketball team back in March 2024. My favorite sports teams are: Atlanta Hawks, Atlanta Braves, Los Angeles Chargers, Virginia Tech Hokies and PSG for Soccer