How to watch the UVA vs. Maryland football game and the GAME THREAD

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Location: Charlottesville, VA
Date: 14 September 2024
Time: 8:00 p.m. ET
channel: ACCN
Spread: Wake up -1

Pre-game content

Game thread

The Virginia Cavaliers return home to play their former ACC rival, the Maryland Terrapins, at 8 p.m. ET on the ACC Network. That means you can watch the game on the ACC Network on any TV provider or stream it on the ESPN app or on ESPN.com.

Stay tuned to Streaking the Lawn before, during and after the game for instant analysis and final score coverage.

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Game Notes

Finally, here are UVA’s game notes:

Popular storylines

• Saturday will be 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 win over Wake Forest, its first ACC opener since 2020 and its first ACC opener away win since 2019. The Cavaliers erased a 13-point deficit in the fourth quarter and trailed by as many as 14 points in the game. The comeback win was UVA's biggest since they trailed Louisville by 17 points after three quarters in 2021.
• Malachi Fields set career highs in receptions (11) and receiving yards (148) against Wake Forest, becoming one of only 13 UVA players with 11 or more catches in a single game. Fields leads the ACC and is 11th in the FBS in receiving yards (248) and receiving yards per game (124.0).
• Quarterback Anthony Colandrea was named the Manning Award Star of the Week after completing 33 of 43 passes (77 percent) for 357 yards and throwing three touchdown passes in UVA's road win at Wake. His 33 completed passes are a career high and the most by a UVA quarterback since 2021 (Brennan Armstrong, 36 at Pitt).

Insights into Saturday’s duel

• Virginia is 2-0 for the first time since 2021 and only the third time since 2013.
• Virginia is looking to improve its record to 3-0 for the first time since 2019, when the team won the Coastal Division, appeared in the 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 appeared in a bowl game and were nationally ranked after week three.
• The Cavaliers have scored 30 points for the first time in a row under head coach Tony Elliott, and their 65 points in their first two games are their most since 2021.
• UVA is one of 60 teams (117 total in the FBS) without a loss.
• Virginia has not lost a fumble this season and is one of 47 teams in the FBS without a lost fumble. 25 of the 47 teams without a lost fumble are undefeated.
• The Cavaliers are playing their third consecutive night game and their second consecutive home game. Virginia has not won three consecutive night games since the 2019 season. UVA has an overall record of 41-21-1 in night games at Scott Stadium.
• UVA has played Maryland twice under the lights of Scott Stadium, in 1992 and 2008, winning both games.
• Maryland leads the overall standings against UVA at 45-32-2 and has won four of its last five games. 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 allowing 42 unanswered points.