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2008 ACC Championship Game

 * This is the archived discussion of the TFAR nomination for the article below. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article/requests). Please do not modify this page. 

The result was: scheduled for Today's featured article/December 6, 2014 by BencherliteTalk 10:57, 25 November 2014 (UTC)



The 2008 ACC Championship Game was a college football game between the Virginia Tech Hokies and the Boston College Eagles. It was the final regular-season contest of the 2008 college football season for the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC). Virginia Tech won the ACC football championship. The Virginia Tech Hokies were selected to represent the Coastal Division by virtue of a tie-breaking head-to-head victory against division rival Georgia Tech. 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. The game was a rematch of the previous year's contest, which Virginia Tech won. It was held at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Florida on December 6, 2008. Virginia Tech took the lead in the first quarter with a five-yard touchdown run by Tech quarterback Tyrod Taylor. 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, and the Hokies won the game. In recognition of his game-winning performance, Taylor was named the game's most valuable player.
 * Most recent similar article(s): Today's featured article/recent TFAs shows something about ice hockey from 22 November 2014 so this would be about two weeks later and about American football instead.
 * Main editors:
 * Promoted: 2009
 * Reasons for nomination: WP:FADC shows this is the only relevant date entry for 6 December.
 * Well-sourced, well-cited, and good use of in-line citations throughout.
 * Note: 6 year anniversary of date of game, 6 December 2008.
 * Support as nominator. &mdash; Cirt (talk) 21:08, 18 November 2014 (UTC)
 * The blurb needs work, probably because the article's lead (at least) needs work. We have wikilinks to "Atlantic Coast Conference" in consecutive sentences, and in fact the first one should have (ACC) afterwards to explain the acronym, so that just ACC can be used thereafter.  The image is unexplained in the blurb and not particularly interesting for the blurb (an exterior of a stadium).  The blurb is heavy on scores and statistics.  Perhaps see whether Today's featured article/August 29, 2014 helps. It's a more interesting read, I think, for the reader who's not a college football enthusiast (I didn't write the blurb, just scheduled it, so I can say nice things about it!). BencherliteTalk 01:41, 20 November 2014 (UTC)
 * I've changed the image and also modified the ACC wording. I'll look into tweaking the blurb with that model in mind. &mdash; Cirt (talk) 01:47, 20 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Trimmed some mentions of statistics from blurb, per suggestion. &mdash; Cirt (talk) 02:22, 20 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Copy edited the lede, now at 1,191 characters with spaces, and trimmed statistics, and added a bit of other different wording from the article. Looks a bit better now. &mdash; Cirt (talk) 02:29, 20 November 2014 (UTC)
 * I don't think you ought to leave out the final score, though... Scheduled. BencherliteTalk 10:57, 25 November 2014 (UTC)