“We are going to play better,” Pollard said. “We are going to go home, going to regroup and we have got to get some guys going offensively.”
Virginia was not even out-hit, with the hit total actually ending at 12-9 in favor of the Cavaliers. However, the timeliness of those hits as well as some free passes allowed for the Rams to reap the full benefits of its success relative to their Commonwealth counterparts.
“We’re so grateful to have this opportunity,” Elliott said. “This program has been working hard over the last several years to get to the postseason and we’re so excited to be in Jacksonville.”
The Cavaliers are set to go fish in the portal pond again to replace outgoing stars. But who should they target?
“I feel like we missed and made mistakes that they capitalized on,” graduate linebacker James Jackson said. “It’s hard to win games when you make mistakes a lot.”
“I didn’t come all the way to Virginia as a Texas boy to win five, six games. I want to win the conference championship.”
Rivalry week is a phenomenon that lasts for a year — read as a Cavalier Daily and Virginia Tech on SI writer discuss the Saturday game.
Like everything else about Virginia football in 2025, though, this year is different.
“We’re going to play however long it takes,” Elliott said.
“All I saw was ball, I saw the wrong jersey color, and I said ‘alright, I’m going to hit his a–s’,” Robinson said.
