Miami – Virginia Tech rivalry
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Miami–Virginia Tech football rivalry
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| First meeting || November 13, 1953
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| Latest meeting || October 8, 2011 (VT: 38 UM:35)
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| Next meeting || TBD
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| Current streak || Virginia Tech: 3
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| All-time series || Miami: 17–12 http://www.hokiesports.com/football/opponents.html?opponent=Miami
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The Miami–Virginia Tech football rivalry is an American college football
rivalry
game played annually by the Miami Hurricanes football
team of the University of Miami
and the Virginia Tech Hokies football
team of Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
. The Hurricanes and Hokies football teams first met on November 13, 1953 in Miami. Miami and Virginia Tech have met in two bowl games, the 1966 Liberty Bowl
and the 1980 Peach Bowl. The two teams have played annually since 1992, and the rivalry developed when the Hokies became a member of the Big East Conference
for football in 1995. When the Atlantic Coast Conference
(ACC) expanded in 2004, both Miami and Virginia Tech became members of the ACC. Both teams continue to compete annually as part of the ACC's Coastal Division.
The series between the 'Canes and the Hokies was one-sided until 1995 when Virginia Tech took their first game against Miami, 13-7 in Blacksburg. Since 1995, the series has been 12-5 and 6-2 in ACC play in favor of Virginia Tech. There have been several notable games in this time, including eleven meetings in which both teams were ranked in the top 25 and four meetings where both teams were part of the national top 10. In 2000, No. 2 Virginia Tech lost to No. 3 Miami at the Orange Bowl
, 41-21. In 2003 the number two Hurricanes had a regular season winning streak snapped by the Hokies in Lane Stadium
. In 2004, the first year for both schools in the ACC, both teams met in Miami at the the Orange Bowl
stadium for the final game of the regular season, which turned out to be a de facto ACC Championship game, with the winner getting a berth in a BCS
bowl game. The No. 10 Hokies defeated the No. 9 Hurricanes, 16-10. In 2005, the No. 5 Hurricanes upset the No. 3 Hokies in Blacksburg, 27-7.
{| class="wikitable" style="font-size: 95%;"
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!style="background: #e3e3e3;"|Date
!style="background: #e3e3e3;"|Winner
!style="background: #e3e3e3;"|Score
!style="background: #e3e3e3;"|Location
!style="background: #e3e3e3;"|Series
|-align=center style="background: #005030; color:#F47321"
| 1 || November 13, 1950 || Miami || 26-0 || Miami, FL || UM 1-0
|-align=center style="background: #005030; color:#F47321"
|2|| December 10, 1966 || Miami ||14-7 || Memphis, TN (Liberty Bowl) || UM 2-0
|-align=center style="background: #005030; color:#F47321"
|3|| November 4, 1967 || Miami ||14-7|| Blacksburg, VA || UM 3-0
|-align=center style="background: #005030; color:#F47321"
|4|| October 18, 1968 || Miami || 13-8|| Miami, FL ||UM 4-0
|-align=center style="background: #005030; color:#F47321"
|5|| November 1, 1974 || Miami || 14-7|| Miami, FL||UM 5-0
|-align=center style="background: #005030; color:#F47321"
|6|| January 2, 1981|| Miami|| 20-10|| Atlanta, GA (Peach Bowl)||UM 6-0
|-align=center style="background: #005030; color:#F47321"
|7|| November 4, 1981|| Miami||21-14|| Miami, FL||UM 7-0
|-align=center style="background: #005030; color:#F47321"
|8|| September 18, 1982|| Miami||14-8||Blacksburg, VA||UM 8-0
|-align=center style="background: #005030; color:#F47321"
|9||November 14, 1987|| Miami||27-13||Miami, FL||UM 9-0
|-align=center style="background: #005030; color:#F47321"
|10||October 14, 1992|| Miami||43-23||Blacksburg, VA||UM 10-0
|-align=center style="background: #005030; color:#F47321"
|11||September 18, 1993|| Miami||21-2||Miami, FL||UM 11-0
|-align=center style="background: #005030; color:#F47321"
|12||October 29, 1994||Miami||24-3||Miami, FL||UM 12-0
|-align=center style="background: #660000; color:#FE6F10"
|13||September 23, 1995||Virginia Tech||13-7||Blacksburg, VA||UM 12-1
|-align=center style="background: #660000; color:#FE6F10"
|14||November 16, 1996||Virginia Tech||21-7||Miami, FL||UM 12-2
|-align=center style="background: #660000; color:#FE6F10"
|15||November 8, 1997||Virginia Tech||27-25||Blacksburg, VA||UM 12-3
|-align=center style="background: #660000; color:#FE6F10"
|16||September 19, 1998||Virginia Tech||27-20 (OT)||Miami, FL||UM 12-4
|-align=center style="background: #660000; color:#FE6F10"
|17||November 13, 1999||Virginia Tech||43-10||Blacksburg, VA|| UM 12-5
|-align=center style="background: #005030; color:#F47321"
|18||November 4, 2000||Miami||41-21||Miami, FL|| UM 13-5
|-align=center style="background: #005030; color:#F47321"
|19||December 1, 2001||Miami||26-24||Blacksburg, VA|| UM 14-5
|-align=center style="background: #005030; color:#F47321"
|20||December 7, 2002||Miami||56-45||Miami, FL|| UM 15-5
|-align=center style="background: #660000; color:#FE6F10"
|21||November 1, 2003||Virginia Tech||31-7||Blacksburg, VA|| UM 15-6
|-align=center style="background: #660000; color:#FE6F10"
|22||December 4, 2004||Virginia Tech||16-10||Miami, FL|| UM 15-7
|-align=center style="background: #005030; color:#F47321"
|23||November 5, 2005||Miami||27-7||Blacksburg, VA|| UM 16-7
|-align=center style="background: #660000; color:#FE6F10"
|23||November 4, 2006||Virginia Tech||17-10||Miami, FL|| UM 16-8
|-align=center style="background: #660000; color:#FE6F10"
|24||November 17, 2007||Virginia Tech||44-14||Blacksburg, VA|| UM 16-9
|-align=center style="background: #005030; color:#F47321"
|25||November 13, 2008||Miami||16-14||Miami Gardens, FL|| UM 17-9
|-align=center style="background: #660000; color:#FE6F10"
|26||September 16, 2009||Virginia Tech||31-7||Blacksburg, VA|| UM 17-10
|-align=center style="background: #660000; color:#FE6F10"
||27||November 20, 2010||Virginia Tech||31-17||Miami Gardens, FL|| UM 17-11
|-align=center style="background: #660000; color:#FE6F10"
||28||October 8, 2011||Virginia Tech||38-35||Blacksburg, VA|| UM 17-12
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Miami–Virginia Tech football rivalry
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! style="background: #E0E7EF;" colspan="2" | Football Series
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| First meeting || November 13, 1953
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| Latest meeting || October 8, 2011 (VT: 38 UM:35)
|-
| Next meeting || TBD
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| Current streak || Virginia Tech: 3
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| All-time series || Miami: 17–12 http://www.hokiesports.com/football/opponents.html?opponent=Miami
|}
The Miami–Virginia Tech football rivalry is an American college football
College football
College football refers to American football played by teams of student athletes fielded by American universities, colleges, and military academies, or Canadian football played by teams of student athletes fielded by Canadian universities...
rivalry
College rivalry
Pairs of schools, colleges and universities, especially when they are close to each other either geographically or in their areas of specialization, often establish a college rivalry with each other over the years. This rivalry can extend to both academics and athletics, the latter being typically...
game played annually by the Miami Hurricanes football
Miami Hurricanes football
The Miami Hurricanes football program competes in the Atlantic Coast Conference of the NCAA's Division I Football Bowl Subdivision for the University of Miami. The program began in 1926 and has won five AP national championships...
team of the University of Miami
University of Miami
The University of Miami is a private, non-sectarian university founded in 1925 with its main campus in Coral Gables, Florida, a medical campus in Miami city proper at Civic Center, and an oceanographic research facility on Virginia Key., the university currently enrolls 15,629 students in 12...
and the Virginia Tech Hokies football
Virginia Tech Hokies football
The Virginia Tech Hokies football team is a college football program that competes in NCAA Division I-FBS, in the Coastal Division of the Atlantic Coast Conference. They have more wins in team history than any other program in the ACC. Their home games are played at Lane Stadium which seats over...
team of Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, popularly known as Virginia Tech , is a public land-grant university with the main campus in Blacksburg, Virginia with other research and educational centers throughout the Commonwealth of Virginia, United States, and internationally.Founded in...
. The Hurricanes and Hokies football teams first met on November 13, 1953 in Miami. Miami and Virginia Tech have met in two bowl games, the 1966 Liberty Bowl
Liberty Bowl
The Liberty Bowl is an annual U.S. American college football bowl game played in December of each year from 1959 to 2007 and in January in 2009 and 2010. The Liberty Bowl was sponsored by AXA Financial and was known as the AXA Liberty Bowl from 1997 to 2003...
and the 1980 Peach Bowl. The two teams have played annually since 1992, and the rivalry developed when the Hokies became a member of the Big East Conference
Big East Conference
The Big East Conference is a collegiate athletics conference consisting of sixteen universities in the eastern half of the United States. The conference's 17 members participate in 24 NCAA sports...
for football in 1995. When the Atlantic Coast Conference
Atlantic Coast Conference
The Atlantic Coast Conference is a collegiate athletic league in the United States. Founded in 1953 in Greensboro, North Carolina, the ACC sanctions competition in twenty-five sports in Division I of the National Collegiate Athletic Association for its twelve member universities...
(ACC) expanded in 2004, both Miami and Virginia Tech became members of the ACC. Both teams continue to compete annually as part of the ACC's Coastal Division.
The series between the 'Canes and the Hokies was one-sided until 1995 when Virginia Tech took their first game against Miami, 13-7 in Blacksburg. Since 1995, the series has been 12-5 and 6-2 in ACC play in favor of Virginia Tech. There have been several notable games in this time, including eleven meetings in which both teams were ranked in the top 25 and four meetings where both teams were part of the national top 10. In 2000, No. 2 Virginia Tech lost to No. 3 Miami at the Orange Bowl
Orange Bowl
The Orange Bowl is an annual American college football bowl game played at Sun Life Stadium in Miami Gardens, Florida. It has been played annually since January 1, 1935 and celebrated its 75th playing on January 1, 2009...
, 41-21. In 2003 the number two Hurricanes had a regular season winning streak snapped by the Hokies in Lane Stadium
Lane Stadium
Lane Stadium/Worsham Field is a stadium located in Blacksburg, Virginia. It is the home field of the Virginia Tech Hokies. It was rated the number one home field advantage in all of college football in 2005 by Rivals.com...
. In 2004, the first year for both schools in the ACC, both teams met in Miami at the the Orange Bowl
Miami Orange Bowl
The Orange Bowl, formerly Burdine Stadium, was an outdoor athletic stadium in Miami, Florida, west of downtown in Little Havana. Considered a landmark, it was the home stadium for the Miami Hurricanes college football team...
stadium for the final game of the regular season, which turned out to be a de facto ACC Championship game, with the winner getting a berth in a BCS
Bowl Championship Series
The Bowl Championship Series is a selection system that creates five bowl match-ups involving ten of the top ranked teams in the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision , including an opportunity for the top two to compete in the BCS National Championship Game.The BCS relies on a combination of...
bowl game. The No. 10 Hokies defeated the No. 9 Hurricanes, 16-10. In 2005, the No. 5 Hurricanes upset the No. 3 Hokies in Blacksburg, 27-7.
Game results
Miami victories are colored ██ dark green. Virginia Tech victories are colored ██ maroon. Ties are white.{| class="wikitable" style="font-size: 95%;"
!style="background: #e3e3e3;"|#
!style="background: #e3e3e3;"|Date
!style="background: #e3e3e3;"|Winner
!style="background: #e3e3e3;"|Score
!style="background: #e3e3e3;"|Location
!style="background: #e3e3e3;"|Series
|-align=center style="background: #005030; color:#F47321"
| 1 || November 13, 1950 || Miami || 26-0 || Miami, FL || UM 1-0
|-align=center style="background: #005030; color:#F47321"
|2|| December 10, 1966 || Miami ||14-7 || Memphis, TN (Liberty Bowl) || UM 2-0
|-align=center style="background: #005030; color:#F47321"
|3|| November 4, 1967 || Miami ||14-7|| Blacksburg, VA || UM 3-0
|-align=center style="background: #005030; color:#F47321"
|4|| October 18, 1968 || Miami || 13-8|| Miami, FL ||UM 4-0
|-align=center style="background: #005030; color:#F47321"
|5|| November 1, 1974 || Miami || 14-7|| Miami, FL||UM 5-0
|-align=center style="background: #005030; color:#F47321"
|6|| January 2, 1981|| Miami|| 20-10|| Atlanta, GA (Peach Bowl)||UM 6-0
|-align=center style="background: #005030; color:#F47321"
|7|| November 4, 1981|| Miami||21-14|| Miami, FL||UM 7-0
|-align=center style="background: #005030; color:#F47321"
|8|| September 18, 1982|| Miami||14-8||Blacksburg, VA||UM 8-0
|-align=center style="background: #005030; color:#F47321"
|9||November 14, 1987|| Miami||27-13||Miami, FL||UM 9-0
|-align=center style="background: #005030; color:#F47321"
|10||October 14, 1992|| Miami||43-23||Blacksburg, VA||UM 10-0
|-align=center style="background: #005030; color:#F47321"
|11||September 18, 1993|| Miami||21-2||Miami, FL||UM 11-0
|-align=center style="background: #005030; color:#F47321"
|12||October 29, 1994||Miami||24-3||Miami, FL||UM 12-0
|-align=center style="background: #660000; color:#FE6F10"
|13||September 23, 1995||Virginia Tech||13-7||Blacksburg, VA||UM 12-1
|-align=center style="background: #660000; color:#FE6F10"
|14||November 16, 1996||Virginia Tech||21-7||Miami, FL||UM 12-2
|-align=center style="background: #660000; color:#FE6F10"
|15||November 8, 1997||Virginia Tech||27-25||Blacksburg, VA||UM 12-3
|-align=center style="background: #660000; color:#FE6F10"
|16||September 19, 1998||Virginia Tech||27-20 (OT)||Miami, FL||UM 12-4
|-align=center style="background: #660000; color:#FE6F10"
|17||November 13, 1999||Virginia Tech||43-10||Blacksburg, VA|| UM 12-5
|-align=center style="background: #005030; color:#F47321"
|18||November 4, 2000||Miami||41-21||Miami, FL|| UM 13-5
|-align=center style="background: #005030; color:#F47321"
|19||December 1, 2001||Miami||26-24||Blacksburg, VA|| UM 14-5
|-align=center style="background: #005030; color:#F47321"
|20||December 7, 2002||Miami||56-45||Miami, FL|| UM 15-5
|-align=center style="background: #660000; color:#FE6F10"
|21||November 1, 2003||Virginia Tech||31-7||Blacksburg, VA|| UM 15-6
|-align=center style="background: #660000; color:#FE6F10"
|22||December 4, 2004||Virginia Tech||16-10||Miami, FL|| UM 15-7
|-align=center style="background: #005030; color:#F47321"
|23||November 5, 2005||Miami||27-7||Blacksburg, VA|| UM 16-7
|-align=center style="background: #660000; color:#FE6F10"
|23||November 4, 2006||Virginia Tech||17-10||Miami, FL|| UM 16-8
|-align=center style="background: #660000; color:#FE6F10"
|24||November 17, 2007||Virginia Tech||44-14||Blacksburg, VA|| UM 16-9
|-align=center style="background: #005030; color:#F47321"
|25||November 13, 2008||Miami||16-14||Miami Gardens, FL|| UM 17-9
|-align=center style="background: #660000; color:#FE6F10"
|26||September 16, 2009||Virginia Tech||31-7||Blacksburg, VA|| UM 17-10
|-align=center style="background: #660000; color:#FE6F10"
||27||November 20, 2010||Virginia Tech||31-17||Miami Gardens, FL|| UM 17-11
|-align=center style="background: #660000; color:#FE6F10"
||28||October 8, 2011||Virginia Tech||38-35||Blacksburg, VA|| UM 17-12
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