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Though the Regular Season Is Over, All-Star Season Is Only Beginning

January 12, 2011   Jim Henry   No comments

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Now that the college football season has finally declared a national champion — the Auburn Tigers, please take a bow — the focus for elite college seniors quickly shifts to their future. Many will be looking to boost their profiles for the NFL Draft in upcoming all-star games.

The East-West Shrine game, scheduled for Jan. 22 in Orlando, is the nation’s oldest All-Star game, played every year since 1925. It will be followed a week later by the more prestigious — at least in player name recognition — Under Armour Senior Bowl in Mobile, Ala., on Jan. 29.

Both are regarded as important interviews and auditions for players looking to impress.

 

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Andrew Luck, Jim Harbaugh Lead Stanford to Blowout Victory in Orange Bowl

January 03, 2011   Tim Povtak   No comments

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Andrew Luck Jim HarbaughMIAMI — This was better than any goodbye speech they could give.

Stanford coach Jim Harbaugh and quarterback Andrew Luck, expected to leave for bigger and brighter football pastures, capped the most successful season in school history by orchestrating a 40-12 victory over Virginia Tech in the Orange Bowl Monday night.

Harbaugh, in his fourth season at Stanford, is expected to be lured away immediately either by the NFL or by the University of Michigan, his alma mater. Luck, a redshirt sophomore, is expected to announce his intention to leave school for the NFL Draft, where he will likely be the No. 1 pick..

For now, they were hand-in-hand in convincing a national television audience and the 65,453 in attendance that Stanford belongs among the nation’s elite football programs.

Stanford (12-1) set a school record for most victories in season, just four years after finishing 1-11, the season before Harbaugh arrived.

Luck, the Heisman Trophy runner-up, carved up the Virginia Tech defense like he was carving up a New Year’s turkey, throwing four touchdown passes, including three to tight end Coby Fleener.

More Orange Bowl: Fleener an Unlikely Star

 

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Virginia Tech vs. Stanford: Orange Bowl

January 03, 2011   FanHouse Staff   No comments

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The Orange Bowl, scheduled for Monday at 8:30 p.m., in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., presents one of the bowl season’s best matchups.

Stanford and Virginia Tech meet at Sun Life Stadium in a game that will be televised on ESPN. The Cardinal and the Hokies were awfully close to putting themselves in the national title chase.

Stanford, coached by Jim Harbaugh, is ranked fifth in the Associated Press poll, has an 11-1 record and the only blemish is a loss to Oregon — which did make next Monday’s national title game against Auburn. Stanford’s seven-game winning streak is its longest since 1991.

 

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FanHouse Fab 40: On to Glendale

December 05, 2010   Brett McMurphy   No comments

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With all three favorites winning the BCS conference championship games on Saturday and No. 1 Oregon taking care of Oregon State, my Associated Press Top 25 ballot looks a lot like last week’s.

My top 10 teams remained the same: No. 1 Oregon, No. 2 Auburn, No. 3 TCU, No. 4 Stanford, No. 5 Wisconsin, No. 6 Ohio State, No. 7 Michigan State, No. 8 Arkansas, No. 9 Boise State and No. 10 Virginia Tech.

Big 12 champion Oklahoma climbed three spots to No. 11, while the three BCS conference championship losers – Florida State (ACC), Nebraska (Big 12), South Carolina (SEC) predictably dropped a few spots.

The next FanHouse Fab 40 will coincide with the release of the next AP poll. That will be Jan. 11 following the BCS title game between Auburn and Oregon in Glendale, Ariz.

 

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Tyrod Taylor Leads Virginia Tech to ACC Championship, Orange Bowl

December 04, 2010   Viv Bernstein   No comments

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Virginia Tech ACC Championship Florida State Tyrod TaylorCHARLOTTE, N.C. — Michael Vick may be the measure of greatness among Virginia Tech quarterbacks, but the legend of Tyrod Taylor is surely gaining on him.

As if to demonstrate why he was named the ACC player of the year in 2010, Taylor dominated Florida State in a 44-33 victory Saturday night in the ACC Championship Game at Bank of America Stadium. It was the 11th victory in a row for Virginia Tech, which opened the season 0-2, and puts the Hokies (11-2) in the BCS Orange Bowl. Florida State (9-4) will play in the Chick-Fil-A Bowl in Atlanta. The teams will learn their bowl opponents Sunday.

It wasn’t just the numbers — Taylor was 18 of 28 for 263 yards and three touchdowns, setting the Virginia Tech single-season record with 23 touchdown passes. And it wasn’t his deceptively pedestrian rushing stats, including a mere 24 net yards on 11 carries that hardly describes a perfectly devastating five-yard touchdown run in the fourth quarter.

Taylor, the ACC Championship Game MVP for the second time in his career, simply couldn’t be stopped by a defense that went into the game 11th in the country in points allowed per game at 17.8. Taylor and the Hokies had that topped by halftime with a 21-17 lead in a dominating offensive display that included 13 of 18 third-down conversions and 10 in a row in a stretch when Virginia Tech pulled away from a close game and made it a blowout in the second half.

“He’s just playing like one of the best, if not the best, in the country right now,” said Virginia Tech flanker Danny Coale, who had a career night with six catches for 143 yards and a touchdown. “I can’t wait to watch it again just to be a fan and watch some of the things that he did because he’s just remarkable. The holes he got us out of sometimes were great. I’m just so happy he’s my quarterback.”

 

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Virginia Tech Beats Florida State to Win ACC Championship Game

December 04, 2010   FanHouse Staff   No comments

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Virginia Tech ACC Championship Florida State Tyrod TaylorCHARLOTTE, N.C. — If the Atlantic Coast Conference championship football game was to be a showdown between quarterbacks — the preseason player of the year and the regular-season’s best — then Saturday night’s game between Virginia Tech and Florida State was no contest.

While the Seminoles’ Christian Ponder sat out with an injured elbow, Virginia Tech’s Tyrod Taylor demonstrated why he was the top player in the ACC this year in a 44-33 victory in front of a mostly friendly crowd of 72,379 at Bank of America Stadium. Taylor was 18 of 28 for 263 yards and three touchdown passes as the Hokies reasserted their position as the dominant team in the ACC. This was Virginia Tech’s third championship in the past four years. The Hokies, who have won 11 games in a row after opening the season 0-2, will represent the ACC in the BCS Orange Bowl.

It was Ponder who was voted the preseason player of the year in the conference and hyped as a Heisman Trophy candidate. But after playing much of the season hurt, he was replaced by EJ Manuel on a near freezing and wet Saturday night in Charlotte.

Manuel was 23 of 31 for 288 yards and a touchdown with two interceptions. Tailback Ty Jones has three rushing touchdowns, but Florida State’s offense couldn’t keep up with Taylor and Virginia Tech. The Hokies scored at will against a defense that was ranked 11th nationally allowing just 17.8 points per game.

Virginia Tech turned a 21-17 halftime lead into a 35-17 advantage with a dominating third quarter. Taylor threw a 45-yard touchdown pass to flanker Danny Coale on the opening drive of the third as Virginia Tech went ahead, 28-17. On the next possession, it was a 21-yarder from Taylor to David Wilson at 4:43 that made the score 35-17. The touchdown pass to Wilson was the 23rd of the year for Taylor, setting a Virginia Tech single-season record.

 

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Virginia Tech Overcomes Awful Start to Earn Shot at Another ACC Title

December 03, 2010   Viv Bernstein   No comments

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Three months ago, when Virginia Tech debuted at No. 10 in the preseason college football top 25, the Hokies were the pick in the Atlantic Coast Conference and outside contenders for a national championship. Three months later, they are ranked No. 12 and the favorites to win the ACC title game Saturday night against Florida State at Bank of America Stadium in Charlotte.

But the road from 10 to 12 was hardly two steps back. It was more like two cliffs down. Virginia Tech opened the season with a loss to highly-ranked Boise State, followed by an embarrassing defeat to James Madison of the Football Championship Subdivision that dropped the Hokies out of the top 25 polls.

It was a fall so far that others might have given up on them. Except the Hokies never gave up on themselves.

And that might be the lesson to remember in this season of what might have been for Virginia Tech. When all seemed lost, the Hokies found a way to win again.

 

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ACC Report: Virginia Tech Closes in on Seventh Straight 10-Victory Season

November 24, 2010   Jim Henry   No comments

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Rivalry Week carries additional significance for ACC teams.

Virginia Tech, for instance, is seeking to become the first team since 2000 to go unbeaten in ACC play when it welcomes Virginia to Lane Stadium on Saturday.

The Hokies have won nine straight since opening defeats to Boise State and James Madison, and one more victory will make them the only team nationally to have 10 or more wins in each of the past seven seasons. Virginia Tech has already clinched a berth in the ACC Championship Game as the Coastal Division winner.

Hokies coach Frank Beamer, whose 238 career wins put him in a tie for 10th-place on the all-time FBS career victory list with Ohio State‘s Woody Hayes, credits his players’ character for the team’s about-face.

Beamer also pointed to the outstanding play of quarterback Tyrod Taylor, whose 31 wins as the starting quarterback is a school record. The Hokies have gone 40-12 since Taylor’s arrival and are on the verge of a third ACC title in his four years.

 

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Virginia Tech Blossoms While Miami Withers Under Randy Shannon

November 20, 2010   Chris Perkins   No comments

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Randy Shannon Miami loses to Virginia TechMIAMI GARDENS, Fla. — There was a time when opposing teams were scared to travel to south Florida to play the University of Miami. Unfortunately for UM fans, that time passed long ago.

Another sure sign of that came after 14th-ranked Virginia Tech defeated 24th-ranked UM, 31-17, Saturday, to win its ninth consecutive game and take the Atlantic Coast Conference Coastal Division title.

It was the 11th time in the last 16 years Virginia Tech has beaten Miami. The rivalry is becoming a rout.

Hokies senior defensive tackle John Graves and senior cornerback Rashad Carmichael smiled proudly and posed for pictures as they plucked grass from the orange and green ‘U’ emblem in the middle of the field at Sun Life Stadium and tucked it into the omnipresent black lunch pail the team has taken on the road every year since 1995.

 

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Virginia Tech Blossoms While Miami Withers Under Randy Shannon

November 20, 2010   Chris Perkins   No comments

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Randy Shannon Miami loses to Virginia TechMIAMI GARDENS, Fl. — There was a time when opposing teams were scared to travel to South Florida to play the University of Miami. Unfortunately for UM fans, that time passed long ago.

Another sure sign of that came after 14th-ranked Virginia Tech defeated 24th-ranked UM, 31-17, Saturday, to win its ninth consecutive game and take the Atlantic Coast Conference Coastal Division title.

It was the 11th time in the last 16 years Virginia Tech has beaten Miami. The rivalry is becoming a rout.

Hokies senior defensive tackle John Graves and senior cornerback Rashad Carmichael smiled proudly and posed for pictures as they plucked grass from the orange and green ‘U’ emblem in the middle of the field at Sun Life Stadium and tucked it into the omnipresent black lunch pail the team has taken on the road every year since 1995.

 

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