2010 Virginia Tech Hokies football team
The 2010 Virginia Tech Hokies football team represented Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in the 2010 NCAA Division I FBS college football season. The Hokies were led by 24th-year head coach Frank Beamer and played their home games at Lane Stadium. They were champions of the Atlantic Coast Conference after winning the Coastal Division and defeating Florida State 44–33 in the 2010 ACC Championship Game.
The 2010 Hokies were only the second ever team ranked in the AP Poll to lose to a FCS opponent. The loss was the team's second in six days, as it also lost to then #3 ranked Boise State at FedExField in Landover, MD in a nationally televised Monday night contest.
After the JMU loss, Tech reeled off ten straight wins and became the first team to go undefeated in ACC play since Florida State in 2000. It finished its regular season with a 10-2 record and now holds the longest streak of ten-win seasons in the NCAA with seven. Tech played Stanford in the Discover Orange Bowl after they beat Florida State 44–33 in the 2010 ACC Championship Game. They lost to Stanford by a score of 40-12.
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Flyovers
Virginia Tech home games have featured flyovers by military aircraft.| Date | Opponent | aircraft | origin | comments |
| September 11 | James Madison | Boeing C-17 Globemaster III | Altus Air Force Base | air crew included 2 Virginia Tech alumni |
| September 18 | East Carolina | Bell AH-1 SuperCobra helicopters | Marine Light Attack Helicopter Squadron 775 | led by 1987 Virginia Tech alumni |
| October 5 | Central Michigan | E-2C Hawkeye and C-2A Greyhound | Naval Station Norfolk | air crew included 2 Virginia Tech alumni |
| October 16 | Wake Forest | North American B-25 Mitchell | Tri-State Warbird Museum | arranged by Virginia Tech alumnus and World War II pilot Stanley Cohen |