The Roanoke Times | File 2003

Virginia Tech's Jordan Trott (41) and Jimmy Williams helped bring down Jarett Payton and the rest of No. 2 Miami back in 2003.

When No. 9 Miami enters Lane Stadium on Saturday, it will mark the 14th time that a team ranked in the top 10 of the Associated Press Top 25 poll has visited Virginia Tech. Those 13 games include four visits from the Hurricanes.

No. 10 Tech 31, No. 2 Miami 7 | Nov. 1, 2003

The game: Hokie defensive backs come up with four turnovers and score two touchdowns as Tech ends Miami’s 39-game regular-season winning streak.

Big names: Tech’s Eric Green, DeAngelo Hall, Bryan Randall and Marcus Vick; Miami’s Antrel Rolle, Kevin Everett, Kellen Winslow and Brock Berlin.

Quotable: “I don’t think the better team won.” — Miami’s Jarrett Payton “They were talking trash while they were here, they were talking trash before they got here, so we just had to show ’em and shut ’em up. I can’t stand Miami.” — Tech’s Kevin Jones

Randy King wrote: “The victory couldn’t have come at a better time for Tech and 17th-year coach Frank Beamer, who has been hearing for a week how his clubs were 0-15 against top-fi ve teams and 2-20 vs. top-10 opponents.”

Postscript: Tech goes 8-5; Miami goes 11-2. 

No. 1 Miami 43, Tech 23  |  Nov. 1, 1992

The game: Gino Torretta, who would go on to win the Heisman, throws three TD passes.

Big names: Lamar Thomas and Michael Barrow of defending national champ Miami; Tech’s Tyronne Drakeford, J.C. Price, Antonio Freeman and Ken Brown.

Quotable: “People say, ‘Don’t believe the hype on Miami,’ but they’re all that.” — Tech’s Maurice DeShazo

Postscript: Tech goes 2-8-1; Miami goes 11-1.  

   No. 1 Miami 26, No. 14 Tech 24 |  Dec. 1, 2001

The game: Tech has a chance to tie the score with 6:04 left, but Ernest Wilford drops the 2-point pass in the end zone. Miami clinches Rose Bowl berth.

Big names: Miami’s Ken Dorsey, Clinton Portis, Phillip Buchanon, Jerome McDougle and Edward Reed; Tech’s Ben Taylor, Andre Davis, Jones and Green.

Quotable: “I played terribly. I put too much pressure on myself.” — Tech QB Grant Noel, who had fi ve turnovers.

Postscript: Miami goes 12-0 and wins national title; Tech goes 8-4. 

No. 5 Miami 27, No. 3 Tech 7 |  Nov. 5, 2005

The game: Marcus Vick fumbles the ball away four times, throws two picks and is sacked four times.

Big names: Tech’s Darryl Tapp, Jeff King and David Clowney; Miami’s Brandon Meriweather and Devin Hester.

Randy King wrote: “The worst home loss since a 43-23 thrashing to Miami in 1992 effectively ripped the petals from the Hokies’ dreams of playing in the Jan. 3 Rose Bowl.”