There was a report out of Blacksburg on Friday that quarterbacks coach Mike O’Cain said no decision had been made yet to redshirt quarterback Logan Thomas, denying a report I wrote Thursday.

And another reporter claimed that the text that Thomas sent to his former Brookville teammates and head coach Jeff Woody – that I saw with my own two eyes – was “alleged.” I trust my sources on this. Woody showed me the text. Zack McCray, Logan’s cousin and a Virginia Tech commit, was the first to tell me about the text, and Thomas’s former teammate Alec Thompson said he received the same text, the one that read “Coach just told me I’m getting redshirted unless they need me.”

I’ll believe Jeff Woody, Logan’s family and former teammates before I believe anybody else.

We’ll see today. If Thomas does indeed line up with the punt block first team and it appears the Hokies are going to play him somewhere other than quarterback, maybe I was steered wrong. But just because he gets significant snaps with the second team at quarterback doesn’t mean he’s not going to redshirt.

Remember, the plan at the beginning of last season was for Tyrod Taylor to get all the snaps at No. 2 QB while redshirting (and the team didn’t inform reporters about this plan right away), but that fell through very quickly. Redshirt is not a definitive thing. It’s only a plan for the future. My opinion is the Hokies coaching staff see their quarterback of the future in Logan Thomas, but with Taylor only a junior, they have to make a decision now on whether they want to preserve a year of Thomas’s eligibility.

One more thing, the AP poll was just released, and Virginia Tech is seventh, the same as the USA Today/Coaches poll.

Here’s the top 10.
1. Florida
2. Texas
3. Oklahoma
4. Southern Cal
5. Alabama
6. Ohio State
7. Virginia Tech
8. Ole Miss
9. Oklahoma State
10. Penn State