BRISTOL, Tenn. -- Tennessee erased an early 14-point deficit at Bristol Motor Speedway almost as fast as drivers typically race around the half-mile track that circled the makeshift football field.Joshua Dobbs threw three touchdown passes and ran for two more scores Saturday night as the 17th-ranked Volunteers beat Virginia Tech 45-24 in front of an NCAA-record crowd of 156,990 at Bristol Motor Speedway.The crowd total shattered the previous NCAA record of 115,109 who attended a Michigan victory over Notre Dame at Michigan Stadium in 2013.Just an unbelievable spectacle, Tennessee coach Butch Jones said. I think the reality hit our players when we came here yesterday for the walk through with all the campers and trailers again this is truly a special evening that well remember for a lifetime.Virginia Tech (1-1) outscored Tennessee 14-0 and outgained the Vols 204-28 in the first quarter. Tennessee (2-0) responded by scoring 31 straight points, including 24 in the second period.Dobbs ran for 106 yards on 14 carries, one week after being held to negative rushing yards in a 20-13 overtime victory over Appalachian State. He was 10 of 19 for 91 yards through the air and threw touchdown passes to Jauan Jennings, Josh Malone and Alvin Kamara.We just executed, Dobbs said. In the first quarter, there was really no reason to panic. We knew that we were going to have to score more than 14 points if we wanted to win this ballgame. Theres just that expectation and confidence throughout the unit that well be fine, well go out, make our plays and our time will come.Tennessees Micah Abernathy set a school single-game record with three fumble recoveries. Virginia Tech ended up losing five fumbles, and three of those turnovers resulted in Tennessee touchdowns. The Hokies have lost nine fumbles through their first two games.Weve obviously got to do a better job either teaching or understanding or emphasizing ball security, Virginia Tech coach Justin Fuente said. Were inadequate, to say the least, right now.Jalen Hurd ran for 99 yards on 22 carries. Virginia Techs Travon McMillian rushed 14 times for 127 yards, including a 69-yard touchdown.The turning point of the game came when Abernathy recovered a fumble on the Virginia Tech 5 in the opening play of the second quarter. Dobbs found Jennings in the end zone on the next play.Tennessees next three drives resulted in a 38-yard touchdown pass from Dobbs to Malone, an Aaron Medley 34-yard field goal and a Dobbs 5-yard touchdown run.THE TAKEAWAYVirginia Tech: The Hokies simply must do a better job of protecting the football. Virginia Techs dominant first-quarter performance showed the Hokies potential, but they cant keep hurting themselves with turnovers and ill-timed penalties. Virginia Tech players said the breakdowns may have resulted from a bad week of practice.As a leader, I will do a better job of making sure my guys are in tune, Virginia Tech quarterback Jerod Evans said. I put this all on me.Tennessee: After averaging just below 3 yards per carry against Appalachian State, the Vols regrouped this week and ran the ball much more effectively. The Vols still must improve their passing attack and gain consistency along the offensive line.SPEEDWAY TO STADIUMThis marked the first football game to take place at the Bristol Motor Speedway since the Washington Redskins and Philadelphia Eagles played a 1961 exhibition game here that drew 10,000 fans to a facility that seated 20,000 at the time.Work began on the speedways temporary conversion into a football stadium the morning after a Sprint Cup race three weeks ago. 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Wales boss Rob Howley has described Liam Williams as probably a left-wing who can play full-back after making another switch of positions with Toulon star Leigh Halfpenny.Many pundits view full-back as the best role for Williams, who looks set to join English and European champions Saracens next season and is rated as a British and Irish Lions certainty in New Zealand next summer.He started in the number 15 shirt when Wales claimed a tense 33-30 victory over Japan last weekend, with Halfpenny on the wing, but those roles have been reversed for South Africas Principality Stadium visit on Saturday.Liam was very disappointed with his performance (against Japan), interim head coach Howley said. I spoke to him about being a connection in the back field. Liam is a very intuitive player, there is an X-factor about Liam and he has that ability to add value in the wider channels.But Leigh is equally important. The way we defend, Leigh Halfpenny does a lot of work on and off the ball. For me, at the moment, that is the best back-three (George North is the other wing). Liam is probably a left-wing who can play full-back, where I think Leigh can play both.?Wales style of play has come underr the microscope this month during an autumn campaign that began with a crushing 32-8 defeat against Australia, before narrow victories were posted over Argentina and Japan.ddddddddddddAnd if they beat South Africa for only the third time in 32 meetings, it would give them a best autumn Tests winning return since they claimed three successes from four starts 14 years ago.We want to play, but there has to be a sensibility about when, Howley added. We have always encouraged our squad to play because we feel we have X-factor players.Against Japan, we hurt ourselves. The three tries Japan scored came from us having had the ball. It was disappointing because we were in control of the ball. I wouldnt stop the players playing. We want to play. That is the modern game, and its important the players and the coaches know that.We always look at ourselves and how we have performed. We won the game (against Japan), but the performance and the expectation of the players and coaches came up short. That has been discussed, because there are areas we have to work on.