Campus of Virginia Tech
The main campus of Virginia Tech is located in Blacksburg, Virginia; the central campus is roughly bordered by Prices Fork Road to the northwest, Plantation Drive to the west, Main Street to the east, and U.S. Route 460 bypass to the south, although it also has several thousand acres beyond the central campus. The Virginia Tech campus consists of 130 buildings on approximately .
2009 Chick-fil-A Bowl
The University of Tennessee and Virginia Tech are separated by only by road, and no major university lies between the two, creating an intense geographical rivalry in that region of the Appalachian Mountains. As Virginia Tech linebacker Cody Grimm said before the game, "(In) Southwest Virginia, you are either a Tennessee fan or a Tech fan. Now we actually get a chance to play them."