The 2008 ACC Championship Game was a college football game between the
Virginia Tech Hokies and the Boston College Eagles to determine the
winners of the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) football championship.
Virginia Tech (representing the Coastal Division) defeated Boston
College (representing the Atlantic Division) by 30 to 12. The game was
held at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Florida, on December 6, 2008,
and was also the final regular-season contest of the 2008 college
football season in the ACC. Neither team clinched a spot in the game
until the final week before the championship, and both had to rely on
conference tie-breaking rules to earn a spot. Virginia Tech took the
lead in the first quarter with a five-yard touchdown run by Tech
quarterback Tyrod Taylor (pictured in the quarterback position on the
right). Tech extended its lead in the second quarter, but Boston College
managed to narrow Tech's lead by halftime. In the second half, Virginia
Tech scored over twice as many points as the Eagles. Taylor was named
the game's most valuable player. The game was a rematch of the previous
year's contest, which Virginia Tech also won.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_ACC_Championship_Game>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1060:
Béla I the Champion (bust pictured) was crowned king of
Hungary.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%A9la_I_of_Hungary>
1865:
Slavery in the United States was officially abolished when the
Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirteenth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution>
1907:
At least 362 miners were killed when an explosion destroyed a
mine in Monongah, West Virginia, leading to the establishment of the
United States Bureau of Mines.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monongah_Mining_disaster>
1956:
At the Melbourne Olympics, 14-year-old swimmer Sandra Morgan
became the youngest Australian to win an Olympic gold medal.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandra_Morgan>
1989:
Claiming that he was "fighting feminism", 25-year-old Marc
Lépine killed fourteen women before committing suicide at École
Polytechnique in Montreal.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89cole_Polytechnique_massacre>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
Nicholine:
Created by, in the style of, or pertaining to (any of several people
named) Nicholas.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Nicholine>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
If there is one thing which a comparative study of
religions places in the clearest light, it is the inevitable decay to
which every religion is exposed. It may seem almost like a truism, that
no religion can continue to be what it was during the lifetime of its
founder and its first apostles.
--Max Müller
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Max_M%C3%BCller>