No. 13 Miami is looking to keep its College Football Playoff hopes alive in a must-win road trip to face an old Big East foe in Virginia Tech, which has its own reasons to celebrate even as it winds down a season that won't include a bowl game.

Signaling a new era for Virginia Tech Football, Board of Visitors Rector John Rocovich, President Tim Sands and Director of Athletics Whit Babcock announced the hiring of James Franklin as the next head coach of the Hokies.

BLACKSBURG, Va. (WDBJ) - Watch live as Virginia Tech’s football program introduces their new Head Coach James Franklin.

Thanksgiving leaves many lethargic and in a food coma, but 22 NFL teams will have to shake off that rust as a full slate of action takes place on Sunday in Week 13.

Back then, the NFL was still called the American Professional Football Association, and the date of Thanksgiving hadn't yet been written into federal law. In the more than 100 years since – and excepting the 1941 through 1944 period during World War II – there has been at least one football game on Thanksgiving annually.