With Saturday’s head-scratching loss to North Carolina, the Virginia football team fell to 4-4 on the year. Our team this year is obviously much better than last year’s edition, but the Cavaliers still have several enormous flaws which could keep them from reaching bowl eligibility.
Virginia (4-4, 2-2 ACC) played the role of front-runner from the opening minutes of the first quarter in its Homecomings game, but most of the season-high 45,200 fans in attendance ultimately departed the stadium with a bitter taste in their mouths.
Driving back to Charlottesville after a tough defeat at Duke last Saturday night, Ross Burbank watched pieces of North Carolina’s 48-43 comeback win against Georgia Tech.The junior center’s attention was divided. The Tar Heels and Yellow Jackets were scoring in bunches, and the game was exciting, to be sure — but he was also watching “Gladiator.”
The year was 1892. Ellis Island had newly opened as an immigration center, and the first public basketball game had been played in Springfield, Massachusetts. American football, meanwhile, was already well-established.
As a University student committed to the Honor Code and a longtime Cavalier sports fan who has seen her fair share of player dismissals, it seems odd to me that Winston would continue playing despite his troubled past and the new allegations against him.
The Virginia football team fell 20-13 to Duke Saturday, as the Blue Devils scored with just more than seven minutes remaining to knock off the Cavaliers.
Coming off the first of two bye weeks this season, the Virginia football team faces Duke in a major Coastal division battle Saturday in Durham, N.C. The week off arrived at a great time for the Cavaliers, letting players heal and the team prepare heading into the middle of the conference schedule.
Khalek Shepherd’s mother, Monica, knows football well and her oldest son better. So, when Khalek—his little brother, Chaudlier, is a redshirt freshman defensive back at Concord University in Athens, West Virginia—dropped a punt against UCLA in Virginia’s season opener Aug. 30 at Scott Stadium, his mother made sure he heard about it.
We have reached the midpoint in the 2014-15 college football season, and Virginia sits at 4-2 as it enters its bye week. Thus, with no game to preview, we here at Cavalier Daily Sports thought it would be fun to break down various position groups performance through the first six weeks of the year. So with that, members of this fine University, I have the high privilege and distinct honor of presenting to you the State of the Hoo-nion Address.
There is nothing quite like a nighttime football game. Anticipation has more time to build. More fans file into stadiums to be a part of the madness. And the players? Well, the stars shine brightest at night.
Though the Cavaliers did not score a point after the break and ceded 16 to the Panthers, Virginia toughed out a 24-19 victory before 43,307 fans on one of the chilliest nights this fall.
This Saturday evening, when the Virginia football team (3-2, 1-0 ACC) takes on Pittsburgh (3-2, 1-0 ACC), Scott Stadium will be the place to be. Following a third-quarter coast to victory over non-conference opponent Kent State, Virginia recognizes that a win Saturday versus an ACC coastal division foe would be an even bigger step in the right direction.
A week ago, I wrote that this Virginia team could shake things up in the ACC if the Cavaliers ever put a complete game together. On Saturday, they did just that.
The Virginia football team slammed Kent State, 45-13, Saturday at Scott Stadium in its final non-conference game of 2014, surpassing last year’s two-win total after just five weeks of play.
Coming off a tough loss against No. 21 BYU last Saturday in Provo, Utah, the Virginia football team will return home this week to face a slightly less daunting Kent State team. Though the Golden Flashes (0-3, 0-1 MAC) are winless on the season and coming off a 66-0 drubbing by Ohio State, the Cavaliers know better than to overlook this MAC team.
Virginia’s offense finally hit its stride Saturday against Brigham Young, putting up 519 yards on a school record of 102 offensive plays. The Cavaliers also held the ball for more than 41 minutes and put up 30 points for just the sixth time in the past three years.Unfortunately it wasn’t enough.
As of halftime Saturday in Provo, Utah, the Virginia football team—just a week removed from knocking off Louisville 23-21 in Charlottesville—led No. 21 Brigham Young, 16-13.The Cavaliers’ promising start, though, fizzled after the break, as the dangerous Cougar offense—led by junior quarterback and dark horse Heisman candidate Taysom Hill—exploded for 28 points.
Excitement filled Scott Stadium with about one minute to play last weekend, as students lined up to rush the field and celebrate a win against Louisville to match last season’s two-game win total.
It’s hard to imagine a more #GoACC week than the one which just passed: the two top teams didn’t play, two of the other top teams lost to supposedly inferior opponents and multiple quarterbacks faced discipline for a creative range of offenses, from shouting obscenities to driving under the influence.
This Saturday at Scott Stadium, the Virginia football team scored perhaps its most memorable and significant win of the past three seasons, pulling off a 23-21 upset against then-No. 21 Louisville before an announced crowd of 34,816 fans. The Cavaliers (2-1, 1-0 ACC), who received six votes in Sunday’s AP Top-25 Poll, trailed with less than four minutes left in the fourth quarter, but refused to lay down with the game on the line.
