Va. Tech Gets Big Chance With No. 1 USC
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Three straight late-season stumbles have taken the luster off Virginia Tech. Now the Hokies are looking to get it back, and there's no better way to do that than to knock off No. 1 Southern California. The Hokies and Trojans open the season Saturday night in the Black Coaches Association Classic at FedEx Field, home of the Washington Redskins. The game begins at 7:45 p.m.
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With one game left in the regular season, Virginia is the surprise leader of the Atlantic Coast Conference after Sean Singletary scored 17 points and the Cavaliers beat Virginia Tech 69-56 Thursday night.
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Virginia Tech can now proclaim itself the Atlantic Coast Conference's best team &#151; and no one can argue.
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Andre Ingram scores 17 points and American shoots 70 percent in the second half of a 70-49 victory over Wagner on Tuesday. Elsewhere, Virginia Tech and Navy both win.
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Virginia Tech scores the game's first 16 points on the way to a 79-49 victory over Charleston Southern, but the Hokies still have concerns as they face the meat of their ACC schedule.
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Given a scare by pesky Cincinnati in the first half, No. 11 Virginia Tech turned to its hallmarks yesterday -- Beamerball and smash-mouth football.
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The 2003 co-national champion USC Trojans, coming off a 12-1 season and a Rose Bowl victory, and the Virginia Tech Hokies, who finished last season 8-5 with an Insight Bowl loss to Cal, meet
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USC has waited a year for this. The top-ranked Trojans get a chance to avenge their only defeat since October 2002 when they face No. 7 California today before a sellout crowd of 92,000.
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In one week, much has changed for Virginia and Virginia Tech. The latest proof comes as the Cavaliers top the Hokies, 65-60.
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Producing a sellout of all 91,665 seats at FedEx Field for Saturday's game No. 1 USC and Virginia Tech has surprised everyone except the more than 30,000 Hokie faithful who are set to set to attend.
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Asked earlier in the week about taking on the No. 1 team in the country this weekend, Isaiah Stanback sounded nonplussed. &quot;USC is a tough team, just like Oregon State was a tough team,&quot; he said.
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It&#39;s still a USC/Oklahoma one two punch in the latest Bowl Championship Series poll. In fact, Oklahoma strengthened its lead over third place Auburn in this week&#39;s BCS poll; the Tigers were idle last week and have a huge game this week with Georgia.
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Southern California will begin defense of its first national title in 31 years as the No. 1 team in the nation. The Trojans earned the top spot in the preseason Associated Press poll released Saturday by receiving 48 of 65 first-place votes and 1,603 points.
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No. 15 Virginia Tech is all alone in first place in the Atlantic Coast Conference with three games left, including one against Virginia and another against Miami.
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Bee Staff Writer. Translation: Let the debates begin, and break out your thinking helmets to sort it all out. It comes as no surprise USC took the top spot in the initial Bowl Championship Series standings that were released Monday.
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N.C. STATE (1-1) vs. VIRGINIA TECH (2-1) When/where: Tomorrow, noon, at Blacksburg, Va. TV: ESPN. AP rankings: Neither team is ranked. Last season: Did not play. Comments: Virginia Tech will be looking for its second straight conference victory in its first season in the Atlantic Coast Conference, while North Carolina State will be trying to bounce back from last week's ...
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Virginia has a great chance to secure a rare victory when they play Duke --a team that hasn't won an ACC game in 11 tries.