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Hokies need season-ending rush of big wins

From ESPN, the Extra Sensory Perception Network, they will tell you will play in the BCS game before anyone else knows it.

I have ESP too, and was able to add what Pat Forde was really thinking when he wrote this article.

BLACKSBURG, Va. -- The match made in BCS [and ABC and ESPN] heaven -- Bevo vs. Tommy Trojan -- has not been overthrown yet. If Virginia Tech is going to force a reconsideration of the Rose Bowl matchup widely seen as inevitable, it isn't going to happen overnight.

At least not over this night.

Marcus Vick would love to duplicate his brother Mike's feat and get the Hokies to the national title game.

Beating Boston College 30-10 was a good victory. A no-doubt-about-it quality win. When your program has lost as a solid home favorite at least once in each of the last four years, you don't overlook the importance of whipping the nation's No. 13 team by 20. [but we will since USC's victory over then #9 took an illegal Bush pushing Leinart for a last second victory.]

And if you hold said team to 183 total yards, pile up 16 more first downs and 309 more yards? Mission accomplished. You've done enough to hold your place at No. 3 in the BCS Standings. [Note to voters, don't even think about a #2 vote, they are lucky to be #3]

Problem is, third place qualifies the Hokies for more anxiety than glory. Repeatedly stalling in the red zone Thursday night kept the score closer than the stat sheet says it should have been. And the decision makers [and talking heads who tell them how to vote] out there are watching the scores closely.

Thus the big job -- the job of forcing the pollsters and computers to love the Hokies more than either USC or Texas -- is not done yet. [Not until we say the job is over.] If they're going to make it happen, it's going to take one of two things:

• A stunning loss by the Trojans or Longhorns. [stunning to us at ESPN, that's for dang sure]

• A five-week, season-ending body of work that creates doubt and demands debate [and then only by the ESPN talking heads who will decide how good that body of work is or is not].

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I just happened to turn to ESPN during halftime of the game tonight. The talking heads were going on about Texas and USC again showing clips of each team and how they will play in the NC game. Then they very briefly discussed if VT could get in the NC game and they all dismissed it saying Texas and USC are obviously the strongest teams in the country.

What a joke.