Virginia (2-0, 1-0 ACC) hosts Maryland (1-1, 0-1 Big 10) Saturday night at 8 p.m.
The ‘Hoos were underdogs, per Vegas, all week, but out of nowhere, they’re now slight (1.5-point) favorites, suggesting that something’s up that we don’t know about yet.
Details
GameDay: Saturday, 8 p.m. ET (ACCN)
Series: Maryland leads series, 45-32-2
Last meeting: Maryland, 42-14 (2023)
ACCN: Wes Durham (play-by-play), Tom Luginbill (analyst), Dana Boyle (sideline)
SiriusXM Radio: SiriusXM 119 / SiriusXM 138 / SiriusXM 193 / SiriusXM 196
SiriusXM App: SiriusXM 955 / SiriusXM 958
Line: Maryland -3
Over/under: 57.5
Projected score: Maryland 30, UVA 27
Pregame Coverage
- UVA Football: What a win over Maryland tonight means for the bigger goals ahead
- Game Preview: UVA, Maryland set to meet in prime time on Saturday night
- UVA Football: The offense needs Chris Tyree to get things going in the slot
- UVA Football: Seriously gotta fix that issue with getting punts blocked
- UVA Football: Tony Elliott updates on Kam Robinson, McKale Boley, Corey Thomas
Nothing doing for each team on their first possessions
Update: 8:16 p.m. Each team got a first down, then had to punt, on their first possessions of the game.
It looked to me that the penalty on Malachi Fields that took the Chris Tyree pitch-and-catch TD off the board was dubious. From the replay on the 6,700-foot TV here, it looked like the DB was holding him, not the other way around.
Daniel Sparks won the field-position battle with a 53-yard punt pinning Maryland at its own 9 for its second possession.
First turnover of the night
Update: 8:33 p.m. Virginia had a first-and-goal at the 8, got to third-and-goal at the 5, and Anthony Colandrea, trying to create something with nobody open, fumbled.
Maryland recovered at the 12.
Second, an INT
Update: 8:40 p.m. Anthony Colandrea, on a third-and-7, overshot Malachi Fields, and was picked off at midfield, and the ball was returned to the UVA 35.
Horrible read. Fields was bracketed, with safety help over the top.
Chris Tyree was open at the marker on the other side of the field.
The D held, forced a field-goal try, and Jack Howes was wide left from 52 yards.
Offense stalls in the red zone again
Update: 8:46 p.m. Virginia had first-and-goal at the 4, but had to settle for a 19-yard Will Bettridge field goal.
Six red-zone snaps in the first quarter produced a net of 1 yard.
End 1: Virginia 3, Maryland 0
Another stall in the red zone
Update: 9:05 p.m. Virginia goes 13 plays, 77 yards, and stalls out in the red zone again.
Will Bettridge was good from 29 to make it 6-0 UVA.
Three trips to the red zone, two field goals.
Dominant first half, and now UVA is behind
Update: 9:29 p.m. Maryland gets on the board with a 19-yard TD pass from Billy Edwards to Tai Felton.
The quick seven-play, 47-yard drive was set up by a good Maryland punt, conservative Virginia play-calling trying to run clock, a so-so Virginia punt, and good two-minute offense by the Terps.
That happened
Update: 9:35 p.m. Anthony Colandrea connected with Tyler Neville for a big gainer to get UVA into the red zone, then scrambled 10 yards for a TD, scoring with one second left.
Drive: five plays, 71 yards, 49 seconds.
Half: Virginia 13, Maryland 7
AC TO THE HOUSE 💪 pic.twitter.com/i5irSyZTVn
— Virginia Football (@UVAFootball) September 15, 2024
First-half recap
Virginia dominated the first half statistically, outgaining Maryland 288-141, but it took a 10-yard scramble by Anthony Colandrea to send the ‘Hoos into the halftime break with the lead.
UVA leads 13-7, getting that TD and two field goals, with one turnover, a Colandrea fumble, on four red-zone trips.
Colandrea is 13-of-19 for 189 yards and an INT through the air.
Virginia ran for 99 yards on 21 attempts on the ground.
Kobe Pace had 45 yards on nine carries, and Xavier Brown had 29 yards on five carries.
Tyler Neville had three catches on five targets for 57 yards, with the 39-yard gainer on the final drive of the first half being key.
Maryland QB Billy Edwards is 14-of-24 for 95 yards and a TD, a 19-yarder to Tai Felton with 54 seconds left in the first half.
Maryland back on top
Update: 10:10 p.m. Billy Edwards connects with Kaden Prather for a 26-yard TD pass.
Drive: eight plays, 68 yards.
Maryland has scored on its last two possessions.
Another Colandrea turnover
Update: 10:21 p.m. Anthony Colandrea was intercepted in plus territory, his second pick and third turnover of the night.
He’s trying to do too much.
D holds in the red zone
Update: 10:31 p.m. Maryland had a first-and-goal at the 9, but had to settle for a 37-yard Jack Howes field goal.
Score: Maryland 17, Virginia 13, 2:53/3rd
Dominant third quarter for Maryland
Update: 10:37 p.m. Maryland outgained UVA 132-23 in the third quarter. This one is hanging by a thread, as it was last week at Wake.
Here’s why: Virginia offensive possessions in the third quarter.
- Three plays, -1 yards, punt
- Six plays, 21 yards, INT
- Three plays, six yards, punt
- Three plays, -3 yards, punt
Another red-zone stop, but more Maryland points
Update: 10:45 p.m. Jack Howes good from 32 yards after a Terps’ drive stalled at the UVA 15.
Des Kitchings has had no answers for Maryland’s adjustments in the second half.
Fourth UVA turnover of the night
Update: 10:51 p.m. For some reason, Virginia tried a wide-receiver screen on third-and-8, and Malachi Fields was going to be short of the first, but fighting for it, he fumbled, recovered by Maryland.
This game feels like a replay of the one last year in College Park. UVA dominated the first half statistically, but it was close at halftime, the ‘Hoos trailed 21-14 at the end of three, then fell apart in the fourth, doomed by turnovers (four).
This one’s over
Update: 11:02 p.m. Another Maryland scoring drive was capped by a Billy Edwards 1-yard TD run on a tush-push.
Maryland leads 27-13.
Virginia lost this one early, with the two field goals and turnover in the red zone.
Share
Chris Graham
