Unbeaten Virginia Returns to Scott Stadium to Host Maryland

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. – Off to its best start since 2019, Virginia (2-0) returns to Scott Stadium to host former ACC foe Maryland (1-1) on Saturday (Sept. 14). Kickoff is set for 8 p.m., and will be broadcast on ACC Network and the Virginia Sports Radio Network. 

GAME DETAILS
Date: Saturday, Sept. 14
Time: 8 p.m.
Location: Scott Stadium (61,500)
Television: ACC Network • Wes Durham (play-by-play), Tom Luginbill (analyst) and Dana Boyle (sideline)
Radio: Virginia Sports Radio Network, Virginia Sports Mobile App, TuneIn App, SiriusXM Channel 119 or 193
Theme: True Blue Game – Wear Blue

Inside Saturday’s Matchup 

• Virginia is 2-0 for the first time since 2021 and only third time since 2013. 

• Virginia is seeking to improve to 3-0 for the first time since 2019, when it won the Coastal Division and appeared in ACC Championship game, and accepted an invitation to the Orange Bowl. 

• Only three times (2004, 2005, 2019) in the last 25 years has Virginia started 3-0. All three of those teams went to a bowl game and were nationally ranked after week three. 

• The Cavaliers have posted back-to-back 30-point efforts for the first time under head coach Tony Elliott and the 65 combined points in the first two games are the most since 2021. 

• UVA is one of 60 teams (117 total in FBS) without a loss. 

• Virginia has not lost a fumble this season and is one of 47 teams in FBS without a fumble lost. Twenty-five of the 47 teams without a fumble lost are undefeated. 

• The Cavaliers are playing their third-straight night game and second-straight at home. Virginia has not won three-straight night contests since the 2019 season. UVA is 41-21-1 all-time in night games at Scott Stadium. 

• UVA has played Maryland under the lights of Scott Stadium twice, 1992 and 2008, winning both contests. 

• Maryland leads the all-time series against UVA 45-32-2 and has won four of the last five. The two teams first met in 1919 in Charlottesville. 

• UVA has not defeated Maryland at Scott Stadium since 2008 (31-0). 

• Last season, UVA led Maryland, 14-0, in the first quarter before surrendering 42 unanswered points. 

Top Storylines 

• Saturday marks Maryland’s first visit to Scott Stadium since 2012, when the Terps won, 27-20. UVA and Maryland played for 57 consecutive years (1957-2013) as members of the ACC. 

• Virginia is coming off a 31-30 road victory over Wake Forest, its first ACC opening win since 2020 and first road ACC opening win since 2019. The Cavaliers overcame a 13-point fourth-quarter deficit and trailed by as many as 14 points in the game. The comeback victory was UVA’s largest since trailing Louisville by 17 after three quarters in 2021. 

• Malachi Fields set career highs in both receptions (11) and receiving yards (148) against Wake Forest to become one of only 13 UVA players ever with 11 or more catches in a single game. Fields leads the ACC and is 11th in FBS in receiving yards (248) and receiving yards per game (124.0). 

• Quarterback Anthony Colandrea was named a Manning Award Star of the Week after finishing 33-for-43 (77 percent) with 357 yards passing and matched a career-high three touchdown passes in UVA’s road triumph at Wake. His 33 completions are a career-high and the most by a UVA quarterback since 2021 (Brennan Armstrong, 36 at Pitt). 

NUMBERS TO KNOW 

5.5 – Solo Tackles per game by Jonas Sanker, third most in the ACC. A First Team All-ACC selection in 2023, Sanker averaged 6.1 solo tackles per game, tied for fourth most in FBS. 

9 – Consecutive games Virginia has produced a 100-yard receiver. 

337– Receiving yards Malachi Fields has accumulated in his last three games (dating back to last season). 

363 – Yards-per-game of total offense QB Anthony Colandrea has accounted for in the first two games, the sixth-highest in all of FBS. 

ON THE HORIZON

• The Cavaliers travel to Coastal Carolina (2-0) next Saturday (Sept. 21) for a 2 p.m. kickoff on ESPN+.