STANFORD, Calif. (AP) — Kyron Drones passed for two touchdowns and ran for a third, and Virginia Tech bounced back from last week’s final second heart-breaking loss to No. 7 Miami and beat Stanford 31-7 on Saturday.
Bhaysul Tuten added 73 rushing yards and one touchdown while the Hokies (3-3, 1-1 ACC) got a big game out of their defense in the win. A transfer from North Carolina A&T, Tuten eclipsed the 3,000-yard mark for his career. Drones completed 14 of 19 throws for 201 yards.
He made touchdown throws to Stephen Gosnell and Da’Quan Felton and scrambled for 17 yards for Virginia Tech in its first game against Stanford since the 2011 Orange Bowl. Felton had four catches for 84 yards. The Hokies spent much of the week trying to move on from the disappointing loss to the Hurricanes on Sept.
27. In that game Drones and Felton connected on a 30-yard touchdown in the final seconds, only to have the call overturned by replay. Virginia Tech never let it get that close against Stanford.
While Drones patiently guided the offense, Tuten kept the Hokies rolling on the ground. The second-leading rusher in the ACC going into the game, Tuten repeatedly gouged the conference’s top run defense for big gains to help the Hokies end a two-game skid. Stanford (2-3, 1-2 ACC) changed quarterbacks after Ashton Daniels was knocked out of last week’s loss to Clemson with a sore ankle but the results weren’t much different.
Justin Lamson, who played sparingly in the Cardinal’s first fo.
