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THE ROANOKE TIMES lllr SUNDAY NOVEMBER 6 2005 xa Virginia easily rolls past Temple CHARLOTTESVILLE Wall Lundy ran for four touchdowns and Jason Snelling ran for two more as the Cavaliers beat winless Temple 51 3 The Owls managed just seven yards rushing and 167 yards of total offense most of it coming against Virgin backups after the game was out of hand Virginia coming off a bye week after a 7 5 loss to North Carolina amassed 449 yards of offense and likely would have gained much more except for starting six of their first 10 possessions in Temple territory Story and notes pages 4 5 scores ACC NC State 20 No 9 lorida State 15 North Carolina 16 No 19 Boston College 14 Clemson 49 Duke 20 Georgia Tech 30 Wake orest 17 AROUND THE STATE errum 63 NC Wesleyan 28 Richmond 38 VMI 3 Washington and Lee 45 Emory Henry 7 TOP 25 No 1 Southern Cal Stanford LATE No 2 Texas 62 Baylor 0 No 4 Alabama 17 Mississippi State 0 No 6 LSU 24 Appalachian State 0 Arizona 52 No 7 UCLA 14 No 8 Notre Dame 41 Tennessee 21 No 10 Penn State 35 No 14 Wisconsin 14 No 12 Ohio State 40 Illinois 2 No 13 lorida 49 Vanderbilt 42 2OT No 15 Oregon 27 No 23 California 20 No 16 Texas Tech 56 texas 17 No 17 Auburn 49 Kentucky 27 No 20 TCU 33 Colorado State 6 No 21 resno State 45 San Jose State 7 No 25 Colorado 41 Missouri 12 ull score list in Scoreboard page 6 ull roundups pages 7 8 No 5 Miami 27 No 3 Virginia Tech 7 SHATTERED DREAMS JOSH MELTZER The Roanoke Times 7A: 1MbM 1 Virginia Tech sophomore Josh Morgan sits on the sidelines as time winds down in the third ranked Hokies' 27 7 loss to No 5 Miami Miami dominates Virginia Tech knocking the Hokies from the national championship chase By Randy King randykingroanokecom 981 3126 BLACKSBURG Cancel those Rose Bowl reservations Virginia Tech fans You can start looking into a Gator Bowl deal now Making certain that Tech will take a pass on Pasadena the fifth ranked Miami Hurricanes blew into Lane Stadium and delved out nothing but pain UP NEXT obliterating the No 3 Hokies VirginiaTech 27 7 in front of 65115 stunned 3 fans at Lane Stadium at Virginia Their worst home loss Nov 19 since a 43 23 thrashing to TBA Miami in 1992 effectively ripped the petals from the MORE Hokies' dreams of playing in INSIDE the Jan 3 Rose Bowl national Notes championship game Statistics 1ikely and quarter Tech (8 1 5 1) a chance to breakdowns win a second straight ACC Paqes2 3 crown as Miami (7 1 4 1)( now has the inside track to the Coastal Division title If both teams win out Miami would take the division on the basis of head to head win over Tech The Coastal winner will face lorida State in the Dec 3 ACC title game in Jacksonville SU (7 2 5 2) clinched the Atlantic Division title Saturday when Boston College lost at See HOKIES 2 Ta i) i iB 7 MW JI fciu7' wfijl WWL ''JSrt' Associated Press Miami wide receiver Darnell Jenkins (8) celebrates with teammate Greg Olsen (82) after his third quarter touchdown reception Hokies lose chip on national stage BLACKSBURG You saw it You prob ably wish you Virginia 27 7 loss to Miami on Sat urday night was excruciating embar rassing misshapen It was everything you never thought it would be 'Aaron aarontncfat linu id'roanokecoin 981 3222 If you want to blame something blame the bright lights that illumi nated this town all week the glowing article in Sports Illustrated the con stant love from the analysts or the first time all season the Blame everybody or blame nobody your choice But really no mid dle ground here no shades of gray no coulda beens that make for good debate The offense did less than nothing The defense let a backup running back trample it The players got outplayed the coaches got outcoached and Shanna the forecasting cow (Shan na says: Tech 34 Miami 17) probably wishes she were a Quarter Pounder this morning entire nation was pointing at the Hokies and telling them how good they were While the exposure was flattering anybody who has followed this team in the past five years had to be nervous The Hokies play their best not when they are praised but when their shoulder pads are hugging a mammoth chip All of a sudden the chip was gone There was no focus No See MCARLING 2 (Soanokecom Visitwwwroanokecom to hear coach rank Beamer's postgame press conference and to view more photos from Blacksburg Inside this section TOP 25 Arizona dominates the whole way handing seventh ranked UCLA its first loss of the season STATE errum clinches at least a tie fur the USA South title and a Division III playoff berth with a win over NC Wesleyan 7 7 ACC Andre Brown runs for 179 yards and a touchdown as NC State beats lorida State for the third time in five years 8.