Hokies and Cavaliers Are in a Poll Reversal
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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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The Associated Press just made news. It wants to stop making news. Good for the AP. Bad for the BCS. The news is out that the Associated Press has decided to not let its weekly football poll serve as part
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BLACKSBURG, Va. -- Virginia Tech has become the favorite to win the Atlantic Coast Conference title and to be the league's lone national title contender, but little of that, really, has been its own doing. The Hokies have played stout defense and running back Branden Ore leads the conference in...
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The defending champs are slipping and the Colonials are rising. Maryland, which led the AP women's basketball poll for the first 10 weeks this season, fell two more places to sixth Monday after losing to an unranked opponent for the first time in two years.
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The second-ranked team in The Associated Press poll has lost three consecutive weeks and the Eagles face their toughest test of the season Thursday night at No. 8 Virginia Tech.
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Impossible. Inconceivable. A Southeastern Conference team is in position to go 12-0 and get locked out of the national championship game.
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College football&#39;s controversial Bowl Championship Series is sure to be overhauled again after The Associated Press demanded yesterday that its news media poll be pulled from the BCS ranking.
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After Florida leapfrogs Michigan in the final ratings and claims a spot in the Jan. 8 BCS game, scrutiny falls upon the Harris Interactive poll for choosing a scope of voters that may have been too broad.
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The final college football polls will be released Tuesday. One will be posted at fanspoll.com, a Web site where fans, not sportswriters or coaches, choose their national champion.
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Virginia Tech trails by as many as 47 points in a nationally televised, 92-53 humiliation at No. 5 North Carolina, Coach Seth Greenberg's most lopsided loss in an ACC game.
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All those who turned up their noses at the prospect of Virginia Tech joining the ACC are looking pretty silly right about now. After begging, pleading, cajoling and even doing some old-fashioned arm-twisting to get into the Atlanta Coast Conference, the Hokies proved in their first season what they've known all along: They definitely belong.
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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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Not like the pointless rankings calculation changes that have taken place the last couple years. The system thatâs been used to select the four major bowl match-ups since 1998 has been criticized in the past.
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Long before the college football season started, followers of Boston College and West Virginia were eyeing Nov. 13 on their schedules. With Miami and Virginia Tech gone to the Atlantic Coast Conference, it seemed likely that the battle for the Big East title, and a trip to a BCS bowl, would be contested between the Mountaineers and Eagles, 1-2, respectively, ...
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It didn't take long. First poll, first controversy. Or at least mini-controversy. If you had taken the wisdom of the two human polls, the first Bowl Championship Series rankings that were released yesterday should have been a no-brainer.
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College football coaches delayed a vote Wednesday on whether to release the ballots for their weekly poll, though some made it clear they strongly oppose the idea.
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The upsets have begun and the little guys are moving into The Associated Press poll. After ranked teams started the season 21-0, five fell to unranked opponents this weekend, shaking up media poll released Sunday.