Hokies remain double-digit favorites against the Jackets even as kickoff approaches

Virginia Tech has a 3-3 record against the team as the favorite this year, and the Hokies travel to Blacksburg again as heavy favorites against Georgia Tech.

Virginia Tech is an 11-point favorite against the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets at DraftKings Sportsbook.

However, this is not a full Georgia Tech team, and Virginia Tech has all its key stars still healthy.

Starting quarterback Haynes King, key linebacker Kyle Efford and backup running back Chad Alexander will all not play against the Hokies.

The Hokies bring a hot streak to Lane Stadium just before kickoff, Bhayshul Tuten is having the best performance of his career, Antwaun Powell-Ryland just broke the record for most four-sack games by a Virginia Tech Hokie and Kyron Drones is looking better every week.

Advanced analytics like SP+ also strongly favor Virginia Tech in this duel. Connelly's SP+ metric showed the Hokies winning 33-25 against the Yellow Jackets.

What exactly is SP+? This is how Connelly himself describes it:

“As always, these are based on three main factors: returning production (final rankings can be found at the end of this article), recent recruiting and recent history. How good have you been lately? Who do you think will come back?” How good are the players who aren’t coming back? That's largely the question we ask when setting expectations for a team.

As always: SP+ is a pace- and opponent-adjusted measure of college football efficiency. This is a predictive measure of the most enduring and predictable aspects of football, not a resume ranking, and with that in mind, these projections are not intended as a guess as to what the AP Top 25 will look like at the end of the year. These are simply early off-season performance rankings based on the information we have been able to gather so far.”

Additional links:

SP+ predicts the final result of the matchup against Georgia Tech

Virginia Tech Football: Key to win for Hokies against Georgia Tech

Virginia Tech vs. Georgia Tech: Final score predictions for Saturday's game