Virginia Tech Fires Head Coach Brent Pry After 0-3 Start to 2025 Season

The Hokies lost to Old Dominion at home on Saturday.

Brent Pry and the Virginia Tech Hokies started the 2025 season 0-3. / Brian Bishop-Imagn Images

The Virginia Tech Hokies have fired coach Brent Pry following an 0-3 start to the 2025 season, according to a statement released by the program on Sunday. Offensive coordinator Philip Montgomery will take over as interim head coach.

The decision comes after a 45-26 home loss to the Old Dominion Monarchs on Saturday afternoon.

Pry was hired by Virginia Tech ahead of the 2022 season and put together just a 16-24 record over three-plus seasons in Blacksburg, Va. Now fired, the Hokies owe the 55-year-old more than $6 million in a buyout.

Sources: Virginia Tech plans to fire coach Brent Pry today. He’s gone 16-24 through four seasons and started this year 0-3. He’s set to be owed more than $6 million in buyout. pic.twitter.com/yh7ejE0n3C

— Pete Thamel (@PeteThamel) September 14, 2025

A longtime defensive coach, Pry has spent time as the defensive coordinator of the Lousiana-Lafayette Ragin' Cajuns, the Georgia Southern Eagles, the Vanderbilt Commodores, and the Penn State Nittany Lions.

Virginia Tech will welcome Wofford to Lane Stadium next Saturday for a 12:00 p.m. ET kickoff.

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