After suffering a(nother) stunning loss to the Virginia Tech Hokies, the Virginia Cavaliers’ bowl fate appeared to be sealed Friday night. And the outcome looked grim—Shreveport or Detroit levels of grim. While Bronco Mendenhall and the players would have still said all the right things if they were looking at a lower tier bowl, it would nonetheless have been a nothing more than a bittersweet “reward” to cap another season in which UVA couldn’t capitalize on its gaudy early record.
But as Friday turned to Saturday, Virginia’s fortunes may have begun to improve. Simply put.