Miami @ Virginia Tech

In 1999, Michael Vick led undefeated Virginia Tech past Miami and into the second ever BCS national championship game. Back then, the Hurricanes were climbing their way back to the top of the college football world after crippling sanctions brought the proud program all the way down to 5-6 just two years earlier.

This time around, Miami (6-1) has joined Virginia Tech back up among the ranks of the college football elite, and they are looking to put an opening season loss to Florida State behind them and march onto their first conference title since they joined the ACC and a sixth national championship.

However, the Hokies (8-0) counter with another Vick at the helm of their offense to slow down the surging Hurricanes.

Marcus Vick is going to have to follow in his brother’s footsteps—a task he has been trying to do since he first stepped on campus in Blacksburg, Virginia—if Virginia Tech wants another shot at the national title.

While Vick and Devin Hester—Miami’s dynamo punt returner—are the most exciting players in this contest, the match up comes down to a pair of defenses that claim statistical supremacy over the rest of the country. Virginia Tech’s 9.1 points per game tops the nation while the Hurricane’s 221.6 yards per game does the same.