1998 Virginia Football News - VirginiaFootball. Three weeks from tonight, Virginia will have a chance to make a statement to the college football world. The Cavaliers have been talking about taking this program to the next level ever since they bumped off Florida State and Georgia in 1995, a season that was inches away from perhaps the best campaign ever by a UVa team.
Players talk about regaining that type of respect.
But there's only one way to do that prove it out the playing field. When the Cavaliers establish a beachhead in Auburn's Jordan-Hare Stadium before a national television audience the night of Sept. 3, the whole football world will be watching the only game in town. More than likely when the Associated Press preseason poll comes out, Virginia will be ranked somewhere in the top 20. The Cavs were 19th in last week's preseason coaches poll. A win over an SEC team on Auburn's home turf could catapult UVa inside the top 15 and with A schedule set up in the Cavaliers' favor, it wouldn't be too farfetched to see this team crack the top 10 early and stay there.