Virginia Cavaliers NCAA Football News

Virginia and Boston College have been virtual strangers since the Eagles entered the Atlantic Coast Conference in 2005, meeting only during that season.

Two weeks ago, the University of Charleston was unbeaten and seemed headed toward an NCAA Division II football playoff berth.

On the heels of releasing its offensive coordinator, Mike Groh, Virginia's football team expected instant results.

Coaches will argue how much of an advantage playing at home really gives one team on any given day, but those coaches and players will agree that playing in front of a jam-packed stadium full of fans that are behind their team is a great feeling.

For Virginia coach Al Groh, watching the tape yesterday of a 52-17 loss to Miami was just confirmation of what he'd suspected.

For all of the revivals his Virginia football teams have enjoyed in the 10th month, coach Al Groh has never been known as Mr.

Saturday's game at Land Shark Stadium was a far cry from Virginia's last appearance in Miami in 2007, when the Wahoo's closed the Orange Bowl with a 49-0 win.

The last time Virginia coach Al Groh was on the sideline in South Florida, his Cavaliers ended Miami's era at the Orange Bowl with a stunning 48-0 romp over the Hurricanes.

Two plays have separated the University of Charleston from a perfect football season.

As a passer, Jameel Sewell has been plagued by wildness at times, but opponents generally have had to his honor his running ability.

The Virginia football team has gone 26 years without consecutive losing seasons, but now finds itself in danger of seeing that happen.

We'll begin today by trying to make you laugh, or at least smile. Because even though it hasn't been much fun to be a college football fan in this state the past few weeks, you've got to remember to laugh.

After the first weekend of the college football season, no one would have figured that come this Saturday Duke and Virginia would be playing for anythingA but pride.

Walk-on Nathan Rathjen took over as Virginia's punter Saturday, replacing sophomore Jimmy Howell, who had done virtually all of UVa's punting for the past two seasons.

Duke's players charged toward midfield at Wallace Wade Stadium when the clock expired in last season's 31-3 win over Virginia, reveling after they snapped a 25-game ACC losing streak. The image is ingrained in the mind of Cavaliers fullback Rashawn Jackson, who sounded as if he wanted to pound a blocking sled -- perhaps one adorned with a Blue Devils jersey -- while recounting the celebration earlier this week.

'We were embarrassed,' said Jackson, who has a chance to even the score on Saturday at Scott Stadium.

Virginia is making a defensive about-face this week, going from preparing for the Atlantic Coast Conference team that runs the ball best to the one that throws it most.

To dream the impossible dream. Two ACC programs are on the verge of improbable, unbelievable endings to this season and these dreams come to a clash this Saturday.

Al Groh stood in the driving rain, his arms outstretched and his palms to the sky -- the waterlogged pose of a desperate man.

A speedy receiver in high school, Javaris Brown only knew one way to play: See the ball and catch the ball.

Sometimes I get the feeling that UVA dreams to be Harvard, Stanford, Princeton, Columbia, Yale, and MIT on Monday-Friday, and then aspires to be Alabama, Florida, USC, Michigan, Florida State and Texas on certain Saturdays in the Fall.