🏈 Virginia at Louisville, Saturday, 4 October 2025, 1530, ESPN2

Continuing the discussion from :football: ACC Football: Week 5 - 2025:

Thinking about it a little more, 2019 VT was a huge win for the program with a lot at stake and breaking the VT losing streak. That was the end of the season and the stakes were known.

This win against FSU got more attention nationally because it was against a more highly regarded, prominent opponent who beat Alabama a few weeks ago. Plus it was on Friday night in its own time slot.

People woke up Saturday morning in the mood for a day of college football and saw that amazing lightning quick field storm everywhere and knew we beat top 10 FSU the night before. The field storm and our win went viral. That doesn’t happen if the game’s a mundane win or the play happens in the other end zone or if the game’s just one of many on Saturday buried under coverage of Bama/Georgia and Oregon/Penn State.

The electric image of the play occurring 10 yards from the mass of students and then the students immediately pouring onto the field past, around and over the players still in the end zone just happy and excited. Besides the one guy, there weren’t incidents between fans and players. Usually when you’ve seen one field storm, you’ve seen them all, but this one was different in a memorable way.

I’m so happy for the students, especially the 4th years. This is the class that went into lockdown their first semester in school for an armed shooter at large. The last ones left that congregated for the memorial on the Lawn. They finally got the chance to really celebrate something big and happy with the team. So yeah, this is the biggest, most impactful win.

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