🏈 TaxSlayer Gator Bowl: Virginia vs Missouri, Saturday, 27 December 2025, 1930, ABC

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QB stability is huge. Does Morris need shoulder surgery? I always assumed he did when Tony would say stuff about it bothering him the rest of the season. Our crooked helmeted backup could get a ton of spring snaps, which is good.

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Some more good publicity for us. If we had beaten Duke, we would’ve been the Cinderella of college football for the week leading up to the playoff. Too bad.

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Hoos are staying loose on Christmas Eve.

https://twitter.com/uvafootball/status/2003965761455632843?s=46&t=vkjgQUekzGC7z44tIfnIRQ

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I know rumor had been out there but allegedly Taylor has not made decision yet
https://twitter.com/gregmadia/status/2004347643091472762?s=46

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Don’t think he’s part of the gameplan at this point. Would take an 11th hour reversal.

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Yep this is what I was alluding to on the JBDragon show earlier this week. Business decisions…

It was also brought up on our VIP pages early this week. If you’re not a member, there’s great info worth the look!

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He shouldn’t play

Love him, thanks for everything. Will root for him on Sundays. Absolutely no reason to play.

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Happy for Taylor. Dude balled out all year. Hope we find another physical runner like him.

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Is Trell opting out because of NFL or transferring?

Edit: didn’t see that he hurt his knee

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Hate that these bowl games are treated as house money now but that’s just the reality.

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I mean they’re pointless.

It sucks from a fan perspective. But I get it.

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Seems like ours should be pretty competitive and serious? I think it helps that neither program feels like they are too good for a Gator bowl

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The big question for me is what happens when things get tough.

Do players really want to lock-in and be there for the fight.

It’s just very hard to get up for a game thay doesn’t have stakes.

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Make cfp smaller? My only thinking on how to get bowl games popping again.

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I believe kam isn’t making the trip down to the game unless he flys down today.

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Won’t stop some of our fans from trashing TE if we lose this. That said, does sound like he’s taking this game seriously which is cool. Just not sure how we’re going to fare without Trell and Taylor.

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We took some absolute bowl game shellings under the command of the best to ever do it at UVA.

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About 20 or so years ago, when I was a bigger college football fan, I used to argue (with friends mostly) about an 8-team playoff.

One common beef with an 8-team playoff was that the bowls wouldn’t matter.

And I’d say - why do they matter now?

I think I was basically correct then, and the new structure has created more fun games but it has also highlighted the fact that the other games, which to be clear were always meaningless, are now super meaningless.

Not to mention all the financial incentives to not play have increased…

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I’m probably way off key with the majority, but I think the four team playoff system was actually the right set up.

In any given year, there aren’t generally more than two, sometimes three, credible national championship contenders. Expansion since the BCS was partially driven by complaints from the first team(s) left out, but I have never felt that any of them stood much chance of winning out.

So, is the point of the playoffs to crown a valid champion or is it to schedule as many profitable games as possible? I think your answer predicates your preferred size of a national championship playoff.

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Nah make it bigger and give up on the bowls

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