The Virginia Cavaliers (5-5) football team squares off against their second straight ranked opponent when they face the 13th-ranked SMU Mustangs (9-1) this Saturday. The Mustangs have been the ACC’s most surprising story, as they were picked to finish 7th in the conference in the preseason poll, but they currently sit in first place with a 6-0 ACC record.
Virginia is coming off a 35-14 routing at the hands of Notre Dame, and they’ve now lost four of their last five. Questions have resurfaced surrounding Anthony Colandrea’s grip on the Virginia starting quarterback job, but he’s still in line to start over graduate senior quarterback Tony Muskett.