Hokies shocked by James Madison

Virginia Tech is the second ranked team to lose to a lower division team. The first was No. 5 Michigan, who fell, 34-32, to 1-AA Appalachian State Sept. 1, 2007.

Dudzik called it the biggest victory in school history, and coach Mickey Matthews agreed, a remarkable thought because Matthews led the Dukes to the 2004 FCS national championship.

“This is the biggest win of my professional career,’’ he said.

And it happened with Tech looking too much like the mistake-prone team that lost just six days earlier, 33-30, when No. 3 Boise State scored the go-ahead touchdown with 1:09 left.

The Dukes needed no such late-game heroics, hanging onto the ball for the last 5:23 to finish off the Hokies (0-2).

Ohio St. 36, Miami 24 — Terrelle Pryor ran for 113 yards and a touchdown and passed for another score, and the second-ranked Buckeyes (2-0) intercepted Jacory Harris four times in a victory over the 12th-ranked Hurricanes in Columbus, Ohio.

In what was billed as a Heisman showcase, Pryor completed just 12 of 27 passes for 233 yards but added 20 carries, scoring on a 13-yard run. Harris was 22 of 39 for 232 yards and a touchdown but had the four interceptions.

It was the last interception that proved to be particularly costly. Trailing, 26-17, at the half, Miami (1-1) took the second-half kickoff and drove to a first down at the Ohio State 6. But on third and goal, Harris’s pass over the middle was wide of the mark and intercepted by burly Buckeyes defensive end Cameron Heyward, who rumbled 80 yards. That set up Pryor’s TD run.

Oklahoma 47, Florida St. 17 — Landry Jones outplayed Christian Ponder by throwing for 380 yards and four touchdowns, and the 10th-ranked Sooners moved past a shaky season opener with a convincing victory over the 17th-ranked Seminoles in Norman, Okla.

Oklahoma (2-0) scored touchdowns on its first four possessions. Jones completed 14 straight passes at one point, starting at the end of the Sooners’ opening drive and continuing when he’d pushed the lead to 27-7 with his third touchdown pass.