Vick Leads Way as No. 2 Virginia Tech Rolls to 62-7 Win

Freshman quarterback Michael Vick ran for a season-high 134 yards and two touchdowns and passed for two touchdowns as No. 2-ranked Virginia Tech defeated Temple, 62-7, Saturday at Philadelphia.

The victory clinched at least a share of the Big East championship for Virginia Tech, 10-0 overall and 6-0 in conference, and bolstered its bid for a berth in the national championship game in the Sugar Bowl.

Virginia Tech, which plays No. 25 Boston College Friday, also avenged a 28-24 loss to Temple (2-8, 2-4) last year in Blacksburg, Va., when the Owls were 35-point underdogs.

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Joe Walland threw a seven-yard touchdown pass to Eric Johnson with 29 seconds left to give Yale (9-1, 6-1) a 24-21 victory over Harvard (5-5, 3-4) at New Haven, Conn., for a share of the Ivy League championship with Brown (9-1, 6-1), a 23-6 winner over Columbia (3-7, 1-6) at Providence, R.I. Johnson had 21 catches for 244 yards and Walland set school records with 42-for-67 passing for 437 yards.

SOUTH

Morgan Kane rushed for 224 yards and a touchdown as Wake Forest posted its first winning regular-season record in seven years by beating No. 14 Georgia Tech, 26-23, at Winston-Salem, N.C. Wake Forest (6-5, 3-5 in the Atlantic Coast Conference) ran the ball on 62 of its 75 plays for 322 yards. Joe Hamilton completed 23 of 40 passes for 281 yards for Georgia Tech (7-3, 5-3), but got most of that after Wake Forest went ahead 20-0. He had 317 total yards to become the first ACC player with 10,000 all-purpose yards. . . . Dan Ellis threw four touchdown passes, including a 20-yard play to Billy McMullen with 26 seconds left that allowed Virginia (7-4, 5-3 in the ACC) to overcome a school-record 306-yard rushing effort by LaMont Jordan in a 34-30 victory over Maryland (5-6, 2-6) at College Park, Md. Virginia’s Thomas Jones ran for 91 yards and finished the regular season with 1,798 yards, breaking the ACC single-season record set in 1970 by North Carolina’s Don McCauley. . . . Josh McGee set a school record with six field goals as North Carolina (3-8, 2-6 in the ACC) defeated Duke (3-8, 3-5) for the 10th consecutive time in a 38-0 victory at Chapel Hill, N.C. . . . Travis Zachery rushed for two touchdowns for Clemson (6-5) in a 31-21 victory over South Carolina (0-11) at Columbia, S.C. . . . David Garrard ran for three touchdowns to lead No. 23 East Carolina (9-2) to a 23-6 victory over North Carolina State (6-6) at Greenville, N.C. . . . Brant Hanna kicked a 27-yard field goal with 1:07 remaining after a fake punt to lift No. 18 Southern Mississippi (8-3, 6-0 in Conference USA) to a 30-27 victory at Louisville (7-4, 4-2). . . . Ken Dorsey threw for two touchdowns and ran for another in his first college start for Miami (6-4, 4-1 in the Big East) in a 55-0 victory over visiting Rutgers (1-10, 1-6).

MIDWEST

Travis Prentice scored his 73rd career touchdown, breaking Ricky Williams’ NCAA record, and Miami of Ohio (7-4, 6-2 in the Mid-American Conference) was a 43-0 winner over Buffalo (0-11,0-8) at Oxford, Ohio.

WEST

Hawaii (8-3) defeated Navy (4-7), 48-41, in a nonconference game at Honolulu. . . . T.D. Croshaw threw for two second-half touchdowns and Andre Dyson had two interceptions for Utah (8-3, 5-2 in the Mountain West) in a 20-17 victory over No. 19 Brigham Young (8-3, 5-2) at Provo, Utah. . . . Billy Volek passed for five touchdowns to boost his season total to a school-record to 30 to lead Fresno State (8-4, 5-2 in the Western Athletic Conference) to a 63-12 victory over visiting San Jose State (2-9, 1-6). . . . Bart Hendricks threw three touchdown passes and ran for another as Boise State (9-3, 5-1 in the Big West Conference) earned a bid to the Humanitarian Bowl with a 45-14 victory over Idaho (7-4, 4-2) at Pullman, Wash. . . . Demario Brown ran for 253 yards and four touchdowns for Utah State (3-7, 2-3 in the Big West) in a 37-35 victory over Nevada (3-8, 2-4) at Reno. Nevada’s Trevor Insley had 14 receptions (for 242 yards) to raise his career total to 298 and break an NCAA record held by former teammate Geoff Noisy.

SOUTHLAND

Andy Jepson completed 25 of 36 passes for 338 yards and two touchdowns but Cal Poly San Luis Obispo (6-5) was a 31-26 loser to visiting Sacramento State (6-5). . . . Travis Brown threw for 235 yards and a touchdown and ran for another to lead Northern Arizona (8-3, 6-2) to a 30-10 victory at Cal State Northridge (5-6, 4-4).