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

[BDragon]

I’m suddenly changing how I feel about going to Charlotte

[Jerome]

@NorVaHoo

If we go to the Charlotte bowl we can all stay at @Jerome ’s house. Comes with a bottle of Buffalo Trace on every pillow

@BDragon

I’m suddenly changing how I feel about going to Charlotte

[BDragon]

There’s cake too?

[ddaley1985]

@WFS_HOO

I mean that was the slowest scoop and score I’ve ever seen. Why do we always recruit slow players?

Always nice when evidence pops up to support your opinions

https://twitter.com/raanalytics/status/1975222458341810475?s=46

[4547Lambeth]

@ElliottHoo

our 2019 team had everything break exactly right to sneak into the Orange Bowl (which alternated between being a CFP bowl and not. Our year it wasn’t CFP, but it was only a half-step down, and would have been either the very top of the Top Tier bowls or arguably its own category above them).

I know you know this, but I wanted to explain the minutiae for the group. Back before the playoff last year, the NY6 bowls rotated as semifinal hosts every 3 years. If a bowl was a semifinal host and the traditional affiliated conference champion was in the top 4 (maybe top 2 only, I forgot), then that school would be assigned to that bowl. If a bowl wasn’t a semifinal host and the affiliated conference championship chances made the playoff, the 2nd place team from that conference got the NY6 slot. So in 2019, the Orange Bowl wasn’t a semifinal host and ACC champ Clemson was in the top 4, so the OB “lost” their team and had to take the 2nd place ACC team, us.

If Clemson wasn’t in the top 4, then they would’ve gone to the OB. If the OB was a semifinal host, Clemson would’ve gone there if it were in the top 4 or some other NY6 Bowl if it wasn’t top 4. In either situation, we would’ve gone to the 2nd ACC Bowl, Gator or Pop Tarts or Holidays, I forgot the order that year.

So the Orange Bowl was still a top tier NY6 Bowl that year. The NY6 bowls that year took the top 10 teams plus highest G5 #17 Memphis and #24 us. We probably stole a spot from #11 Utah or #12 Auburn or #13 Alabama or #14 Michigan or #15 ND.

[ElliottHoo]

Really well said.

Only thing I can add is that Camping World Bowl was the top ACC bowl that year, and reaching it would have been a “beyond best-case scenario” kinda deal. And then we did better than that by going to the Orange Bowl (ND went to Camping World instead). Crazy year.

[WFS_HOO]

Our defense is so slow it’s going to take them the entire bye week to come up with a clever and amusing way to describe how slow they are.

[ddaley1985]

https://twitter.com/uvafootball/status/1975352557255246064?s=46

[fivesheff]

I think some of the fans at the FSU game topped 21.4 coming down off the hill. Now that was fast!