Virginia Tech vs East Carolina College Football Predictions Picks: The Virginia Tech Hokies will attempt to get back on the winning side of the ledger tomorrow as they take on the East Carolina Pirates in Greenville, North Carolina. The Thursday night special is set to kickoff at 7:30pm ET at Dowdy-Ficklin Stadium; the game will be broadcast live on ESPN. College Football Predictions Picks at SBGglobal.com have the Pirates listed as a +12.5 against the spread home underdog.

Virginia Tech fell to 5-3 overall and 3-2 in ACC action last Thursday night, losing at home 17-20 to the North Carolina Tar Heels. The setback was the Hokies second in a row and it dashed their hopes of a sixth consecutive 10 win season. Frank Beamer 's crew, which is third in the ACC Coastal division standings behind Georgia Tech and Duke, did not take the loss well.

"I think the motivation is to come out here so you don't feel like this again," linebacker Cody Grimm said. "I don't want to feel like this any more and the only way to do that is to win."

East Carolina, unlike Tech, comes into this contest with some positive momentum, having won two straight games. The Pirates blasted Memphis 38-17 in Tennessee last Tuesday night to move to 5-3 overall and 4-1 in Conference USA play. Skip Holtz squad currently sits in first place in the league's East division with a one game lead over Central Florida.

These two teams met last year at Bank of America Stadium in Charlotte to open the season and the Pirates scored a 27-22 upset win. Holtz is hoping that memory provides a confidence boost for his team tomorrow evening.

"You get into some of these big-game atmospheres and it's good to see our players understand the type of effort it's going to take," Holtz said.

College Football Predictions Picks Betting Trend: East Carolina is 7-3 against the spread and 9-1 straight up in its last 10 games at Dowdy-Ficklin Stadium. The Pirates as 4-2 against the spread and 5-1 straight up over the last five years playing as a home team coming off a road win. However, the Hokies are 8-1 straight up (5-4 ATS) over the last five seasons playing as -10 or more favorite coming off a loss.

SBGglobal.com Virginia Tech vs East Carolina College Football Predictions Picks:

Virginia Tech Hokies -12.5 (-110)

East Carolina Pirates +12.5 (-110)

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