Virginia Tech's Lee Suggs may be out for season.(Daily Press)

BLACKSBURG, Va.

The next two days will be critical for the status of Virginia Tech's running game and their chances of playing in a major bowl. Lee Suggs will find out Monday whether the knee injury he sustained in Saturday's win against UConn will knock him out for the season or keep him on the sidelines for about two weeks.

"It didn't hurt (on the sidelines) and I wanted to go back in, but they told me to sit back down," said Suggs of the left knee injury, which ocurred midway through the third quarter when his cleats were caught in Lane Stadium's new turf.

Suggs, a junior, had an MRI on Saturday which showed that he has a torn anterior cruciate ligament. However, Suggs sustained an ACL injury during high school and the MRI may have shown remnants of that injury. Doctors will be able to determine if the ACL tear is new or old when they perform arthroscopic surgery on him today.

However, Suggs does have a torn medial meniscus (the cartilage within the knee joint), which is an injury that requires minor surgery and very little recovery time. If the ACL tear is an old injury, surgeons will go ahead and operate on the meniscus Monday. Suggs would then be fitted with a brace and he would be cleared to play as soon as he's able to run. In that case, the old ACL injury would be repaired in January.

"He'd probably miss the Western Michigan game, we'd have the off-week after that and we'd shoot for the Rutgers game the week after that to get him back," ...