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BLACKSBURG, Virginia (Ticker) -- The regular season is more than half complete, and Virginia Tech has yet to face a real challenge. Grant Noel threw two touchdown passes to Andre Davis and ran for another score as the fifth-ranked Hokies built a 34-point lead and coasted to a 34-20 victory over Boston College in a Big East Conference game. The 14-point margin of victory was the smallest of the season for the Hokies (6-0, 3-0 Big East), who have yet to play a ranked team and may not see one before a showdown with No. 1 Miami on December 1. The 20 points also were the most allowed this season by the Hokies, but all came with the game already out of reach. "Winning never gets old. Our expectations to play well are there and when we don't, we're disappointed," Virginia Tech coach Frank Beamer said. "We did some things in the fourth quarter we need to learn from." Boston College's William Green, who ranked fifth nationally in rushing, was held to 74 yards on 21 carries with one score. Boston College (4-2, 2-1) had won three straight games, but faced just one school currently in the rankings, losing to then-unranked Stanford, 38-22, on September 8. The Eagles could not overcome 16 penalties for 120 yards and three turnovers. "I thought we played hard the entire game. It is the same old broken song right now with the football team," Boston College coach Tom O'Brien said. "We had too many panalites and turned the football over which you can't do against a good team." Virginia Tech jumped to a 21-0 lead in the first 9:13. Noel opened with a 37-yard touchdown pass to Andre Davis and followed less than three minutes later with a one-yard TD run. "Grant made a couple of great plays, a couple of nice passes, a couple of really good plays," Beamer said. The Hokies added their third touchdown of the quarter when safety Kevin McAdam returned a fumble by quarterback Brian St. Pierre nine yards for a score. Noel increased the lead to 31-0 with a 34-yard TD pass to Davis 6:37 into the third quarter. Davis caught six passes for 112 yards. Carter Warley kicked a 19-yard field goal in the second quarter and a 39-yarder in the third that made it 34-0. Boston College made the final respectable with three late scores, beginning with an eight-yard TD run by Green late in the third quarter. In the final period, St. Pierre threw TD passes of 31 and 11 yards to Jamal Burke. St. Pierre completed 16-of-28 passes for 225 yards.
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