Hokies are free to focus on Cavs
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Until late Thursday night, Virginia Tech&#39;s football players were under strict orders from coach Frank Beamer to think, speak and dream only of the University of Maryland.
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Virginia Tech is set to play North Carolina in Chapel Hill for the first time as an ACC school on Tuesday.
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - Unless its mood changes considerably between now and this Saturday, it will be a humble Virginia football team that travels to Duke this coming weekend.
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No. 18 Virginia on Tuesday accepts an invitation to the MPC Computers Bowl on Dec. 27 in Boise, Idaho. The Cavaliers are likely to face Fresno State, also 8-3.
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CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. -- Defensively dominant and offensively unstoppable, No. 12 Virginia started the season with three straight wins for the first time since 1998 with a 51-0 victory against Akron yesterday.
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BLACKSBURG The ACC didn&#39;t want these guys. Didn&#39;t want them in 1953, didn&#39;t want them two springs ago, didn&#39;t want them if even they said pretty please with a Hokie Bird on top.
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Unbeaten No. 6 Cavaliers believe they have talent, heart to knock off No. 7 Florida State for first time on Seminoles&#39; home field Saturday.
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Akron at No. 12 Virginia    Where:  Scott Stadium, Charlottesville   When:  3 p.m.    Radio:  WTNT-570    Tickets:  Sold out    Another Top QB:  Like North Carolina's Darian Durant last week, Akron quarterback Charlie Frye is the key to his team's slim chances of upsetting the Cavaliers. The 6-foot-4 senior, likened by Virginia Coach Al Groh to recent ACC stars Matt Schaub and Philip Rivers, ranks fourth among active NCAA quarterbacks with 9,048 career passing yards. In losses the past two weeks to Penn State and Middle Tennessee, Frye completed 60 of 80 passes for 622 yards. Weather permitting, he will present a challenge for an inexperienced Virginia secondary that made a few too many errors in deep coverage in its first two games.
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BLACKSBURG, Va., Feb. 1 -- The ACC preseason poll can now safely be shredded into ribbons, and no two teams are more responsible than Virginia Tech and Virginia. The Hokies, who were picked 10th and received more last-place votes than any team, were deemed too young to compete. The Cavaliers fini...
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Virginia Tech gets dominated in its first ACC men's basketball game as North Carolina soundly defeats the Hokies, 85-51, on Sunday.
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ACC: After Virginia Tech beat Virginia, it all comes down to the Hokies visit to Miami next week. The winner earns the ACC&#39;s BCS bowl bid.
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LANDOVER, MD. - It&#39;s been awhile since Virginia Tech entered a season unranked, with modest expectations. A win over No. 1 Southern California would change perceptions of this year&#39;s Hokies in a hurry.
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Virginia will be playing in its first game since a win over N.C. State on Dec. 3 but will have to shake off the rust quickly as the Cavs host Hampton, the first of four games in six days.
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Charlottesville, VA (Sports Network) - The No. 12 ranked Virginia Cavaliers will be without defensive end Chris Canty for the remainder of the season.
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North Carolina&#39;s Sean May spoke those words to Virginia Tech&#39;s Deron Washington after dunking in his face, and the fifth-ranked Tar Heels delivered the message throughout the host Hokies&#39; first game in the conference.
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Bobby Petrino doesn't have to worry about lobbying the powers that be in the Bowl Championship Series of Louisville's worthiness anymore. Thanks West Virginia.
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Hokies freshmen account for 39 points, including the final six in the last two minutes that turn a five-point deficit into a one-point point win.