The game will be broadcast on the ACC Network.
Let’s see if we can get 40,000 in the stadium today.
(Doubtful.)
Pregame coverage
- Preview: Louisville QB Justin Slough has been around for a while
- Preview: Virginia will want to run the ball into the teeth of Louisville’s front seven
- UVA Football: Injury updates on Clary, Harris, Tyree, Shine heading into Louisville
- Mailbag: You’re the metrics guy, why does Virginia struggle to score in the red zone?
- Mailbag: Should UVA go with Xavier Brown over Kobe Pace at tailback?
Nobody here
Update: 3:34 p.m. Yeah, we’re not getting 40,000 here today.
This is the scene a few minutes before kickoff.
Virginia rams it down Louisville’s throats on opening possession
Update: 3:45 p.m. Grady Brosterhous scored on a fourth-and-goa at the 1 to cap an 11-play, 75-yard drive.
Virginia ran for 47 yards on seven attempts on the drive. Anthony Colandrea had two designed runs that went for a total of 31 yards.
Virginia 7, Louisville 0, 9:39/1st
Kam Robinson just happened
Update: 4:00 p.m. Kam Robinson shot the gap on a fourth-and-1 from the UVA 19 to get the stop on Isaac Brown.
Drive stuffed.
Colandrea sacked, UVA has to punt
Update: 4:07 p.m. With a third-and-10 in plus territory, Anthony Colandrea was sacked by Louisville D Ashton Gillottee. McKale Boley got beat bad to the outside on that one.
Louisville takes advantage of …
Update: 4:26 p.m. Des Kitchings dialed up a slow-developing run play on a third-and-8 at midfield that, predictably, didn’t work.
On the ensuing punt, the ball hit a UL blocker, and Kobe Pace had a chance to fall on the ball, but overran it.
Louisville drove 72 yards in six plays, scoring on a 7-yard TD run by Isaac Brown, who has 68 yards on seven carries.
Virginia had the momentum, but two drives stalled in plus territory.
Virginia 7, Louisville 7, 10:59/2nd
Elliott, inexplicably, goes for fourth-and-goal at the 3
Update: 4:48 p.m. Virginia, as I wrote earlier this week, is ranked 103rd in the nation in red-zone offense. So, naturally, Tony Elliott decides, on fourth-and-goal at the 3, to go for it, because his squad is so good in the red zone.
A no-call on a pass to Kameron Courtney in the flat got us a turnover-on-downs.
You can’t screw up the last three minutes of a half any worse
Update: 5:00 p.m. Elliott goes for fourth-and-goal at the 3, doesn’t get it, predictably, given this team’s lack of execution in the red zone all season.
The D gets the stop and forces a punt, and UVA takes over at midfield with 57 seconds left and a timeout.
The offense goes three-and-out.
Halftime: Virginia 7, Louisville 7
First half recap
Virginia scored on its first drive, 75 yards on 11 plays, 47 yards on the ground on seven attempts, and then, what was going well, was suddenly abandoned.
The read-option runs by Anthony Colandrea went away. Colandrea had two designed runs on that first drive that went for a total of 31 yards. He has 39 yards on six runs since. Seventeen of the yards were on two scrambles.
The play-calling in the red zone late in the second quarter was atrocious. I hate criticizing play-calling, but, man. A jet sweep on first down for a loss of seven, a run for a yard on second-and-goal at the 13, and then Colandrea gains nine yards on a scramble, so Elliott goes for fourth-and-goal at the 3.
You take the points, and take the lead into the break.
Quick stats
- Total offense: UVA 182, Louisville 153
- Colandrea: 11-of-18, 72 yards passing, 8 rushes/70 yards (sack-adjusted)
- Tyler Neville: 5 catches/5 targets, 36 yards
Louisville takes the lead
Update: 5:30 p.m. The UVA D holds after Louisville got into the red zone. The big play: a 61-yard catch-and-run by Ja’Corey Brooks.
Louisville had a first-and-goal at the 8, but a false-start penalty set them back, and they had to settle for a 31-yard field goal by Brock Travelstead.
Louisville 10, Virginia 7, 12:38/3rd
This is why there needed to be a change at special teams
Update: 5:37 p.m. Jonas Sanker returned the kickoff from six yards deep and was tackled at the 14.
Daniel Sparks, for some reason, they’ve had today doing the rugby-style kicks. One had already hit a guy about 20 yards downfield. This one hit the upback for the oddest “blocked punt” you’ll see.
But that guy still had a job after having one of the worst special-teams units in his first two years, and here we are.
Just like that
Update: 5:41 p.m. Isaac Brown scored on the first play after the “blocked punt.”
Announced attendance: 32,788.
29K empties.
Red zone three again
Update: 5:52 p.m. Virginia builds on its lead in red-zone field goals.
Drive: 12 plays, 62 yards.
Will Bettridge good from 31 on the kick.
The first-down play in the red zone was a run for a loss of two.
Louisville 17, Virginia 10, 5:26/3rd
Another red zone FG
Update: 6:06 p.m. This is comical.
First-and-goal at the 10: incomplete, 4-yard run, incomplete, field goal.
Will Bettridge now has 11 red-zone field goals.
Louisville 17, Virginia 13, 1:00/3rd
D holds in the red zone
Update: 6:17 p.m. Louisville had a first-and-10 at the 17, but a nice rundown tackle on a run by Chico Bennett, and a Kam Robinson sack on third-and-long, forced a field-goal try, which was wide right.
We’re still at 17-13 Louisville, 11:47/4th
Kam Robinson’s third sack of the year is a clutch one 💯
Cardinals miss the ensuing field goal attempt.
We take over on our own 23-yard line. pic.twitter.com/go1gNHW9YH
— Virginia Football (@UVAFootball) October 12, 2024
Virginia takes the lead
Update: 6:24 p.m. Anthony Colandrea, on a third-and-6 at the Louisville 46, found Xavier Brown in the flat, and because Louisville was in Cover 0, there was nobody back to chase him down.
Drive: four plays, 77 yards.
Virginia 20, Louisville 17, 10:03/4th
D gets the turnover
Update: 6:33 p.m. Louisville was attacking again after a big gainer on the first play, a 45-yard pass to Chris Bell that got the ball into plus territory, but on a third-and-13 at the UVA 40, Ethan Minter, over the top, came down with the INT on a jump ball at the 3.
Louisville is back on top
Update: 6:51 p.m. Tyler Shough to Jamari Johnson 5-yard TD pass.
Louisville 24, Virginia 20, 1:55/4th
It’s final
Update: 7:03 p.m. Virginia drove into plus territory, but four straight incompletions at the Louisville 40 turned the ball over on downs.
Final: Louisville 24, Virginia 20
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