Tech Decade: Hokies' Biggest Win of the Aughts
by furrer4heisman on Dec 15, 2009 7:00 AM EST
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PrintThe 00s are almost over and its time to decide the best moments and players from the last 10 seasons. Every day this week you readers will decide your favorite game, win, offensive and defensive player and team from those seasons.
Today you decide what the Hokies' biggest win of the 00s was. Here are the nominees:
2003: Virginia Tech 31, Miami 7 - The Hokies took down No. 2 Miami in Blacksburg, making the Canes the highest ranked team the Hokies have ever taken down. I'll always remember the sign a fan held up on the field after the game: "We're not going to the Sugar Bowl, and neither are U."
2005: Virginia Tech 34, West Virginia 17 - This win looks much better in retrospect. The Hokies beat their rival in Morgantown. It would be the only loss West Virginia suffered in the 2005 season.
2007: Virginia Tech 40, Florida State 21 - Tech scored 20 unanswered points in the fourth quarter to give Frank Beamer his first win over Bobby Bowden and exercise a lot of demons against the team with the spear on its helmets.
2008: Virginia Tech 20, Cincinnati 7 - The Hokies won their first BCS game and gave the ACC its first BCS win since 2000.
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My vote and best voicemail ever
This is a lot harder than the other one because I think there are 3 deserving choices (all but the WVU one). And where is the victory over LSU in ‘02 on this list? I chose Tech over Miami just because it was the #2 team and we DOMINATED the last three quarters of that game! It made me believe that team again. A that would win that and then tank the rest of the season. It helps that I happened to get the best voicemail in the history of voicemail in this one at the exact second that D-Hall stripped the ball and Tech went up 7-0…from my recollection it sounded something like this… "What’s up f&r? I’m just watching the Tech-Miami game right now. It’s not going so well for your boys right now, it’s 0-0 and we’re going to kick Tech’s…S@ God D$#&t! Mother F@$%er! Well, F&#* it. Whatever. We’re still going to win.
Admit it, that is the best voicemail you’ve ever heard too!
Virignia Tech versus Miami, 2004
I can’t believe that the 2004 win over Miami wasn’t included in this vote. The 2004 win, was vastly more important than the 2003 win over Miami because it clinched the ACC championship in our first year in the league. At the time, Tech was coming off some down years (especially the debacle that was 2003) and Miami was widely touted as the new powerhouse of the conference. By defeating Miami in 2004, it signaled a shift that reverberated for the rest of the decade: that Virginia Tech, and not Miami, was the ACC’s premier team.
i said f$u
only cause i hate dadgumit bobby b and the nole nation so much. sure i hate wvu and doook bb more but, tech has beaten them recently … that f$u was a long time coming.
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