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Virginia Tech linebacker Cam Martin, right, recovers a fumble in the end zone against No. 18 Boston College in the ACC championship game Saturday. The Hokies went on to win 30-12.

BC overcame an early 10-point deficit to win the regular-season meeting. But that was with Chris Crane running the offense — not Dominique Davis, the redshirt freshman who made his second start since Crane broke his right collarbone two weeks ago.

Davis threw a 16-yard TD pass to Rich Gunnell in the second quarter, but was picked off twice and had a fourth-quarter fumble returned for a touchdown.

The 19-year-old who grew up in Lakeland, about 30 miles east of Tampa, set up the Eagles’ only TD with a screen pass that Montel Harris turned into a 51-yard gain to the Tech 15. Two plays later, he found Gunnell open in the right corner of the end zone to trim BC’s deficit to 14-7 at the half.

Taylor, picked as the game’s most valuable player, completed 11 of 19 passes for 84 yards and rushed for 11 times for 30 yards — 80 fewer than he ran for in the regular-season meeting — and scored on runs of 5 and 4 yards.

Evans carried 31 times and hiked his season rushing total to 1,112 yards. He and Josh Ogelsby were held to 40 yards on 23 carries the last time by a BC defense that limited opponents to just 57 yards per game rushing over the last five weeks of the season.

Davis was 17 of 43 for 263 yards. He was sacked five times, lost the fumble that Tech’s Orion Martin returned 17 yards for a TD with nine minutes left. Gunnell had seven catches for 114 yards, but his longest reception — a 37-yarder — ended with him fumbling into the end zone and Tech recovering.

“It wasn’t the game I thought it was going to be. It was totally opposite,” Davis said, adding that the final score will stick with him for a while.

“I’m not going to have this feeling again. If we make it back, we’re going to win. I’m not going to let my team down like this again.”

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