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Kevin Jones Came to Blacksburg Last Year As One the 2001 Season, the Most for a Tech Football Team of the Top Incoming Freshmen in America In his first season as a starter, quarterback Grant Noel threw 16 touchdown passes, the most ever for a first-year starter at Virginia Tech. Noting the Hokies in 2001 • Virginia Tech posted four shutouts during • Tailback Kevin Jones came to Blacksburg last year as one the 2001 season, the most for a Tech football team of the top incoming freshmen in America. He didn’t disappoint. since the 1983 season when the Hokies also In his first season as a Hokie, Jones led the team in rushing with blanked four opponents. Tech led all Division I-A a school freshman-record 957 yards. His rushing total was also teams in shutouts for 2001. The four shutouts set a BIG EAST Conference record for a true freshman. Jones a new BIG EAST Conference single-season finished fifth among all Division I-A freshmen in rushing for the record. Three of the four shutouts were against 2001 season and was third among true freshmen. Jones started BIG EAST teams, tying the league single-season and rushed for over 100 mark for shutouts in conference play. yards in each of Tech’s last three regular-season games. His 181 yards Tech in the NCAA Rankings rushing and 37 carries (Top 30 Only) * against Virginia were both Tech freshman records. He also registered the Team Statististics longest run from scrimmage on record by a Rushing Defense YPG Tech freshman when he 2. Virginia Tech.................................................. 71.64 burst 87 yards for a TD at Temple. Jones was Total Defense YPG named the BIG EAST 2. Virginia Tech................................................ 237.91 Rookie of the Year and was a second-team Kevin Scoring Defense PPG Freshman All-America Jones 2. Virginia Tech.................................................. 13.36 pick by The Sporting News. Pass Efficiency Defense RATING 3. Virginia Tech.................................................. 85.62 • Grant Noel became the first Tech quarterback in more than 40 years to throw TD passes in each of his first three Turnovers Gained TO starts. Noel finished the season with 16 touchdown tosses, the T-6. Virginia Tech....................................................... 34 most ever for a first-year starter at Tech. He tied a Tech record for touchdown pass in a game with four at Rutgers and set a Interceptions INT school mark for passing yards in a bowl game with 269 versus T-7. Virginia Tech....................................................... 19 Florida State in the 2002 Gator Bowl. Pass Defense YPG 8. Virginia Tech................................................ 166.27 Punt Returns YPR 2001 Start Chart T-10. Virginia Tech.................................................. 13.33 Pos. Offense (starts) Pos. Defense (starts) SE Shawn Witten (7) E Lamar Cobb (8) Fumbles Recovered FR Emmett Johnson (4) Cols Colas (4) T-10. Virginia Tech....................................................... 15 Ernest Wilford (1) T Chad Beasley (12) LT Anthony Davis (12) TDavid Pugh (11) Turnover Margin Margin LG Luke Owens (7) Dan Wilkinson (1) 13. Virginia Tech.................................................... 0.91 Jacob Gibson (5) E Nathaniel Adibi (9) C Steve DeMasi (12) Jim Davis (3) Rushing Offense YPG RG Jake Grove (11) OLB Deon Provitt (4) 26. Virginia Tech................................................ 194.73 Luke Owens (1) T.J. Jackson (4) RT Matt Wincek (12) Mike Daniels (4) Scoring Offense PPG TE Bob Slowikowski (12) ILB Jake Houseright (7) 25. Virginia Tech.................................................. 32.64 QB Grant Noel (12) Brian Welch (5) FB Jarrett Ferguson (12) ILB Ben Taylor (12) TB Keith Burnell (7) BC Ronyell Whitaker (11) Kevin Jones (4) DeAngelo Hall (1) Individual Statistics Lee Suggs (1) FS Willie Pile (12) FL André Davis (12) ROV Kevin McCadam (12) Punt Returns YPR FC Larry Austin (10) 17. André Davis .................................................. 12.49 Eric Green (1) Garnell Wilds (1) * - as of Dec. 2, 2001 FOUR SHUTOUTS HIGHLIGHT CAMPAIGN If you would have asked No one considered the The season started on nice gain. At the end of the any writer, television analyst possibilities of Tech having Sept. 1 with a home date run, his left knee buckled and or even the most die-hard such a successful season against Connecticut. A Suggs collapsed. His ACL and Hokie fan last February if they without Suggs — the top beautiful summer afternoon at medial meniscus were torn. thought the Hokies would win scorer in Division I-A football Lane Stadium turned sour in His season was over, and eight games without Michael from 2000 and a Heisman the third quarter when Suggs Continued … Vick and Lee Suggs, most Trophy candidate. went around the left side for a would have said “probably But that was a reality not.” thanks to a great team effort, But the Hokies, with their one of the nation’s top two big stars from an 11-1 defenses and several big season in 2000 missing, wins. managed to achieve that mark, play in their second consecutive Toyota Gator Bowl and ninth-straight bowl, overall. Many thought that with the Hokies’ favorable 2001 schedule, tough running game and suffocating defense, they might be able to overcome losing Vick, the No. 1 overall pick in the 2001 NFL Draft. Senior linebackers Ben Taylor (40) and Jake Houseright (41) helped Virginia Tech finish second nationally in rushing defense, total defense and scoring defense during the 2001 season. VIRGINIA TECH FOOTBALL 165 Season Review Continued many predicted, so were the for 74 yards and a score, Carrying the Hokies. while Jones ran for 75 yards. American Flag onto The game, as did the The defense continued to the field before season, continued. The dominate the next week at games became a Hokies rolled over the Rutgers, posting another tradition for senior Huskies, 52-10 as first-time shutout. In the 50-0 win, Noel linebacker Brian starter at quarterback Grant tied a school record with four Welch and the Noel threw for three scores. TD passes, including three in Hokies. But many questions were the first quarter, and the left to be answered. Could defense forced six turnovers Noel run the show without a in the convincing victory. dominating back behind him? After a week off, Tech Could the new tandem of overcame a slow start to Keith Burnell and Kevin Jones down UCF, 46-14. The Golden fill in for Suggs? Could the Knights scored late in the first defense shoulder the load of stanza to take a 7-0 lead. It a now vulnerable offense? marked the first time all Those questions were season the Hokies had trailed answered the following week in a game. But Tech came when the Tech defense right back to take a 19-14 dominated a dangerous lead before scoring 27 Western Michigan offense in a unanswered points to end the 31-0 victory at home. Burnell, game and move to 4-0. the new starting tailback, ran Game No. 5 was supposed to be Tech’s first running backs in the nation in real test of the year. West William Green. Virginia is an intimidating Tech jumped out to a quick place to play. Noel, from West 34-0 lead and never looked Virginia, was supposed to be back in winning 34-20. Kevin rattled playing there, and the McCadam returned a fumble Mountaineers had a tough for a score and André Davis running back in Avon recorded 209 all-purpose Cobourne. yards, including 112 yards The game never lived up and two touchdowns to the hype as Tech rolled to a receiving. 35-0 victory at Mountaineer The defense shut down Field. It marked the third Green, limiting him to just 74 shutout of the year in five yards on 21 carries, marking games for the Hokie defense, the first time in seven games which limited Cobourne to just Green failed to reach the 100- 31 yards rushing. Burnell yard plateau. posted his first career 100- The next two games were yard rushing game and ones Hokie faithful would like scored two touchdowns, and to forget. Game No. 7 proved the Hokies’ offense piled up to be a tough battle between 412 yards of total offense. a surging Syracuse team and Defensive end Win No. 6 came against a a confident Hokie bunch. Jim Davis returned pesky Boston College team The Orangemen jumped an interception that had provided trouble for on top early and held off a 27 yards for a touchdown at the Hokies in the past. The late charge to end the Hokies’ West Virginia. Eagles came in hot, with a 4-2 17-game home winning streak record and one of the top with a 22-14 victory. 166 VIRGINIA TECH FOOTBALL The hangover from the 3 at the intermission. Syracuse game carried over Behind 160 yards from to the next week, as the Jones and two touchdown Hokies were handed one of runs from fullback Jarrett their worst losses in recent Ferguson, Tech battled back history by Pittsburgh. in the second half. The Panthers came out The Hokies had a chance fired up and put the game out to pull off the upset of the of reach by halftime. In the season when Eric Green end, Tech was handed a 38-7 blocked a punt and Brandon loss and was sent back to Manning returned it for a Blacksburg wondering where score, but the two-point the swagger of that 6-0 bunch conversion failed and Miami just two games ago had gone. eventually escaped with a The remedy for the 26-24 victory and its national Hokies’ blues came in the title hopes still alive. form of Temple at Veterans On the basis of a strong Stadium. After struggling regular season, as well as a early, Tech got on track en strong fan base, the Hokies route to a 35-0 victory. The were invited to their second shutout was Tech’s fourth of straight appearance in the the season, the most since Toyota Gator Bowl.
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