The ACC did Virginia Football no favors by scheduling back-to-back short weeks early in the season and back-to-back primetime games on national TV. Simply put, Virginia, now coming off two straight losses, needs some time to figure out what it is capable of. And that just can’t happen over a short week and it can’t happen on national TV.
Miami comes into this game off a 69-0 trouncing of Central Connecticut. But the Canes are not where they’d hoped to be at this point in the season. Sure, nobody really expected a win over Alabama, but they hoped to be competitive and were not.