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2008 Virginia Football Schedule Announced
Official Release The Atlantic Coast Conference released the 2008 football schedules for the league's 12 schools and the University of Virginia's slate features 12 regular season games, including seven home contests. Starting times for all games will be announced at a later date. The Cavaliers will face a total of eight teams that participated in bowl games last year, including all three bowl championship subdivision non-conference opponents. Seven of UVa's opponents won at least eight games in 2007. "We like challenges and this is certainly a challenging schedule with four non-conference opponents who played in the post season and three teams in some of the pre-season top-10 polls," said Virginia coach Al Groh. "This schedule very clearly sets the bar as to the level of performance we must strive for." For the first time in three years UVa plays its season opener at home when it hosts Southern California Aug. 30 at Scott Stadium. The match-up will be the first meeting between the Cavaliers and Trojans in football. The game marks a rare trek by USC to an Atlantic Coast Conference venue. The only previous occurrence was in 1998 when USC played at Florida State and lost 30-10 at Doak Campbell Stadium. USC won the 2008 Rose Bowl and finished the season with an 11-2 record. It marked USC's sixth consecutive Bowl Championship Series game appearance. The Trojans were ranked No. 3 in the final 2007 Associated Press poll and No. 2 in the final USA Today (coaches) rankings. The following week Virginia renews its rivalry with Richmond that dates back to 1893 when the teams meet Sept. 6 in Charlottesville. It will mark the 29th meeting between the two teams. Virginia leads the series 24-2-2. Virginia's other non-conference match-ups include the Cavaliers' first trip to Connecticut (Sept. 13) and a home game against East Carolina (Oct. 11). Virginia's home ACC schedule is highlighted by Clemson's first trip to Scott Stadium since 2004. The teams will meet on Nov. 22 in UVa's final home game of the season. The Tigers were 9-4 in 2007, losing to Auburn in the Chick-fil-A Bowl. Clemson was ranked 21st in the final AP poll. Virginia's four ACC road games include three trips to teams that appeared in bowl games in 2007. Wake Forest won the Meineke Car Care Bowl in 2007 to finish the season 9-4. Georgia Tech appeared in the Humanitarian Bowl and was 7-6. The Yellow Jackets will be under the direction of new first-year coach Paul Johnson in 2008. Virginia Tech posted an 11-3 record including a loss to Kansas in the FedEx Orange Bowl. Season tickets will go on sale on February 22 with a priority order and seating deadline of April 4. The Virginia Athletics Foundation's priority deadline is March 31. Reserved seat season tickets for 2008 are $269 for the seven-game home schedule. To purchase season tickets or for more information on Cavalier football tickets, visit the ticketing section of VirginiaSports.com or call the Virginia Athletics Ticket Office at 1-800-542-8821 or 434/924-8821. The UVa athletics ticket office is open to the public weekdays between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. The 2008 Virginia Spring Football Festival will take place Saturday, April 12 at Scott Stadium. Admission and parking for the event are free. Gates open at noon for fans to enjoy interactive games. The Virginia football team will take the field at 2 p.m.
2008 Virginia Football Schedule
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This Week In Recruiting Football recruiting ... Wednesday was National Signing Day and, as expected, the University of Virginia signed 18 football recruits. At this point, that number is expected to be the final number, as the staff isn't expecting to add any others to the fold (although it is a possibility). In case you missed it, be sure to check out my analysis of Virginia's 2008 class, which was rated the No. 61 in the country by Rivals.com and No. 62 by Scout.com. In the analysis, I picked which players I feel will make the biggest impact in their respective career as well as which player could have the biggest impact in the 2008 season. Also, I give my take on Virginia and recruiting the state of Virginia. There will be several more articles as well, including a feature on Solon (OH) linebacker Steve Greer and his road to signing with Virginia, as well as a "Recruiting Roundtable" by next week. 2009 class Recruiting never stops, so as the 2008 class coverage comes to an end, we will now focus even more on the 2009 class. Virginia already is off to a solid start in 2009 recruiting, having landed speedy Harrisonburg (VA) running back Alex Owah. The staff has already extended a number of scholarship offers, so we will be tracking those in the coming weeks. Later today, stay tuned for the latest on Deep Run (Glen Allen, VA) defensive end/tight end Jake Snyder. Snyder, whose brother Matt is a walk-on wide receiver at UVa, now has two scholarship offers in the fold. Virginia will hold a junior day on Feb. 24, so we'll also be trying to track those that plan to be in attendance. Snyder is one of those planning to be there.
Chris Horne, our resident recruiting expert, provides updates throughout the week for Edge subscribers about UVa's commitments and recruiting targets in football and men's basketball. To sign up for an Edge subscription, please check out the Sabre Edge Sign Up and Information Page. If you're already on board as an Edge subscriber, click the links below to catch up on recruiting. Sabre Edge recruiting updates from the past week ...
Reflections and Analysis on UVa's '08 Class
Smalls Reflects on Visit, Opportunity at UVa
Price Discusses Commitment More recent recruiting updates on The Sabre ...
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Blog Banter: Virginia Football 2008 Virginia's new and improved football schedule, now with more nuts! Honestly, I see another 9 win season in there. And I also see another 5 win season. Who the hell knows? With Clemson, USC, and road trips to Huskyville and Hokieville, this is a tougher slate of pelts.
Read the full blog entry here.
Robert Mahini (Vandy-Hoo)
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Issue No. 312 - October 8, 2007 Tennis Duo Wins Title In the spring, the Virginia men's tennis team had quite a list of accomplishments. The Cavs became the first ACC team to advance to the Final Four and Somdev Devvarman became the first player in school and conference history to win the individual NCAA Championship. The program isn't showing any signs of slowing down this fall. Devvarman and Treat Huey teamed up to win the doubles title at the ITA All-American Championships this past weekend on the campus of the University of Tulsa. They are the first ACC duo to win the doubles title at the prestigious tournament. Huey and Devvarman, the preseason No. 1 team in the ITA doubles rankings, took down 20th-ranked Jonas Berg and Erling Tveit of Mississippi in the final, 6-2, 7-5. "They have played together for a long time and deserve to have this level of success," coach Brian Boland said in news release. "We are proud of their success and we look to them to continue to develop and be tremendous leaders for our team as the season progresses."
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