{"id":6547,"date":"2018-09-26T14:59:16","date_gmt":"2018-09-26T19:59:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sportspaper.info\/blog\/?p=6547"},"modified":"2018-09-26T14:59:16","modified_gmt":"2018-09-26T19:59:16","slug":"top-25-college-football-flashback-2018-week-5-duke-vs-virginia-tech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/top-25-college-football-flashback-2018-week-5-duke-vs-virginia-tech\/","title":{"rendered":"Top 25 College Football Flashback (2018 Week 5) &#8212; Duke vs Virginia Tech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Unbeaten Virginia Tech brought a four-game winning streak to Wallace Wade Stadium on October 10, 1981 to face the Duke Blue Devils. Here&#8217;s the marvelous program cover from that game.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/ncaaf\/seasons\/1981\/10-10_vt-duke.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/watermark.php?path=ncaaf\/seasons\/1981\/images\/ncaaf-program_1981-10-10_vt-duke.jpg\" alt=\"DUKE BLUE DEVILS VS. VIRGINIA TECH HOKIES (OCTOBER 10, 1981)\" width=\"600\" height=\"769\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Hokies, who were no longer officially known as the Gobblers (thanks to head coach Bill Dooley), were shows as such on this great cover.<\/p>\n<p>In a game that came down to the wire, the difference was a last-minute pick six by Duke defensive back Dennis Tabron. Duke prevailed on this day, 14-7. Dooley&#8217;s squad finished the year with a 7-4 record and no bowl appearance, the season after making the Peach Bowl.<\/p>\n<p>Duke, under head coach Shirley &#8220;Red&#8221; Wilson finished at 6-5 with a 3-3 record in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/ncaaf\/conferences\/acc\/acc-conference-index.html\">ACC<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week\u2019s Top 25 college football flashback highlight a 1981 meeting between Duke and Virginia Tech.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6551,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[55,26,425,14,182],"class_list":["post-6547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-classic-programs","tag-1980s","tag-college-football","tag-duke-blue-devils","tag-programs","tag-virginia-tech-hokies","wpcat-61-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6547"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6552,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6547\/revisions\/6552"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}