Great pull on Iowa. A masterclass on how to win a game 7-3 without scoring a TD.
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The route, if it’s gonna happen, is beat a kinda sucky Miami team playing a backup QB, beat a turns-out-their-record-was-misleading Coastal team, and beat a terrible VPI team on the road. And yeah it’s unlikely we do all three. But beat Miami and we can keep hope alive all the way to Nov 18 (since those other two teams are last on the schedule).
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I’ll always go back to my preseason prediction of O/U 5.5 wins and I still take the under.
I point out there’s a path to 6 wins simply as a fact that it’s possible and would be great for the program.
The offensive side of the ball is so sloppy it’s tough to provide honest assessment because you see how close they are if they just get out of their way.
Last I’ll say the schedule is far better than anyone anticipated. Cuse and Illinois are legit top 20 teams. Carolina proving to be top 25ish. A bit of help on the back half with Miami and Pitt falling apart.
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Looks like the opposite of what people anticipated happened. The front end of the schedule was tougher especially with cuse, illinois and duke being good and those being on the road. The back end with miami and pitt being disappointing was not predicted.
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And 5-7 or 4-8 wouldn’t really be different than last year when the Hoos were an opponent chip shot and long FG away from 5-7 or 4-8 …
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But the stats. What about all those gaudy stats
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Novice view here, but if I was an HC and Anae was my OC I would give him the first 3 quarters. Crunch time I take over and (run the ball) make play calls to win out
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But that’s a hypothetical. Shoulda coulda woulda but record was still 6-6 and the players on the offensive end were happier and UVA was getting acknowledgement on the national stage through Brennan’s accomplishments which is good for our brand.
We looked horrible the last two weeks vs mediocre teams with back up qbs. Last year’s team kills these two teams we just played even with the horrendous defense.
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Also, on the other side, aren’t we one last second field goal away from losing to ODU this season?
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Also a hypothetical. Last yrs team was 6-6 with gaudy offensive stats. This yrs team has a far outside chance to be 6-6 with no stats
And a face mask penalty away from beating Cuse
Playing the hypothetical game is dangerous
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Well then let’s just acknowledge what UVA is right now. A bad team fortunate to play 3 back up qbs in a row with the easiest schedule in FBS and a much harder schedule next season with no real talent additions and no real opportunities to add much with how football NIL and the transfer portal are and no real momentum to lock up any 2023 recruits.
It’s bleak. We won but there were literally no improvements. Our offense was still horrible, so many damn penalties and miscues, and we were lucky their back up qb had no idea what he was doing.
Need to have Miami and VT out dumpster-fire us and then steal a win somewhere else. Pitt in decline? idk.
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Virginia is a basketball school
Nothing new there
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I wouldn’t say there wasn’t any improvements. The defense has been solid this year but yesterday they were dominant. The offense on the other hand… pathetic they kick theirselves in the nuts every game and its getting worse
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How much of that was because of the back up QB? And Georgia Tech in general not being good lol.
Fair point.They had to help. They were camped in the backfield
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GT beat Duke in OT 2 weeks ago by crushing Duke’s passing offense (20/41 for 136 yards). The week before that they beat Pitt by forcing 3 Pitt TOs and controlling the game with dominant running. Sure, they had Sims in both games, and his athleticism and running made GT’s offense harder to deal with. But against Pitt, Sims completed 11/26 passes for 102 yards. That’s roughly the same as the 10/25 for 99 yards Gibson put up against UVA, yet GT managed a win against Pitt anyway.
The real difference in the three games was that GT ran the ball 44 times against Pitt for 232 yards, 37 times for 180 yards against Duke, and 37 times for 60 yards against UVA. GT might be a little better than we thought and UVA’s D a little underrated at this point.
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that’s fair. I think losing your starting qb is a big psychological thing though and impacts a lot of the other aspects of offense (is he a running threat/one less person to account for in the run game for our defense. etc. etc.)
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Oh, absolutely. GT kicked themselves in the nuts in the game against us.
However, I still think we’re underestimating them overall. Coming into our game against them, they had 3 losses: Clemson (#5 at the time), Ole Miss (#20 at the time), and UCF (who were ranked 4th in “others getting votes” last week, effectively putting them at #29). And that UCF game was weird. GT outgained UCF 450 to 330, both teams had 2 TOs, and UCF won 27-10.
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before the season it looked easy. but look at the teams UVA has loss to outside of Louisville.
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