UVA Beats Richmond Reaction & ACC Football Four-Word Game For Week 1

[Music] [Applause] [Music] what is going on everyone Casey here Virginia game day checking in with an exciting episode this is Coast week one Boozer off to a 1-0 start and uh we got a lot to talk about today I'm Casey pizzalia as always uh thanks for supporting the podcast the Instagram account the newsletter which some folks have subscribed to that's pretty cool that's Virginia game day.com for those who want to subscribe moving forward I thought the last episode we did was really cool the crystal ball uh deal with the you know Harry Potter music in this background uh and my lovely wife and assistant Victoria helped out with that one so I brought her along again hey guys to uh you know help with this uh new season we're gonna do some stuff from the first game and also get to some ACC stuff from the first week and look at next week so that's how we're gonna roll with this show I think start with the UVA game nothing too crazy there are a lot of reaction podcasts out there and reviews bull hawk has a great one it's like an hour long we're gonna do 10 minutes on the game itself maybe 15. you know I go I go I can talk sometimes and then we'll go through the ACC in the first week and then week two ACC games so um let's start off with uva's 3417 win over Richmond all right so what out to you yeah a good way in a good way okay yeah what'd you see on the field that you that you liked what's promising okay so I think the first thing and you know how I know it's good is when you talk about it oh and P Dot Paris Jones the baller p-dot and had a great game you know I see all these articles he waited so long let's walk on you know fighting fighting fighting it's a great story it's you know an American story yeah he earned a spot doing the gritty stuff taking on blitzers catching balls out of the back and that boy runs hard so that was one of the most exciting things to see ran for a touchdown caught a touchdown uh 19 carries 104 yards into a bigger degree they committed to the run you know there's no staff committed to the Run past you know last year that we weren't wasn't a single back wasn't getting 19 carries last year uh continuing with the Russian game ba looked like 100 guy he wasn't like a huge running threat last year not as much as we saw in 2020 I feel he's back 100 he can coat The Rock uh as much as they need him to and if he's called on he can do that I feel like they weren't trying to have him do that last year injuries this that running wasn't really part of their uh yeah oh yeah good point she's the best is she uh all-time yards leader in UJ history past Bryce Harkin uh Bryce Perkins who did it in two years mind you so big shout outs to perk now the backup for the Los Angeles Rams to Matthew Stafford he'll get a shot that boy can play he's gonna get himself a shot I don't know if it's with the Rams or not but you know I'm gonna go somewhere um what else okay so that was exciting then on uh on offense what's Dr Anthony on defense Joshua I mean that's what everyone's saying he didn't play the first half came in the second half immediate impact Guy picked the ball off I got called back by penalty back-to-back stops on Third and one fourth and one brought the energy of like football player you look up like football player you're kind of like prototypical crazy white linebacker from you know every football movie on the planet Josh Ahern straight to essential casting I love the way he played Maniac gonna have a great year I feel a lot better about Virginia's defense knowing that oh man Josh Ahern is uh one of the linebackers Antonio Clary all over the place flying all over the place uh you know the secondary last year had they got a lot of gruff I would say a lot of Guff they got a lot of Guff last year and rightfully so this is the guy who's been around but you know every time I look up number zero is doing big things making stops flying all over the letting Richmond know he's there and uh I deserve thought he deserved a big shout out there uh yeah there was there was a lot to be lots to be happy about on the field any bummers any things you weren't as excited to see unfold I think a lot of people were talking about the defensive line it was kind of one of the talking points going into the season deep I'm going to be one of the strengths of the team and not that I was disappointed by it but it was just like they weren't as eye popping as maybe some people thought they were going to be now they played Richmond right and uh in ball Hawks review podcast he made it clear that they were very vanilla they didn't throw the kitchen sink they weren't bringing big blitzes days kind of left their front uh their front four go to work and rush to pass her um they did have have two sacks but you know they weren't throwing all sorts of complicated uh complicated things that Richmond that may have made the defensive line look uh the defensive front look a lot better so what does that say to me someone is not an XML football coach it's going to get better we're going to be able to bring more pressure whether it be this week against Illinois or when the ACC comes before I've heard this this still is one of the strengths of our team and they look good I mean those orange uniforms damn defense look a lot better looked confident like the defense looks super confident and uh yeah they gave up 17 points to Richmond but I think the defense was still still probably outshine the offense a little bit um in the first week other than the uniforms off the field what else what else made you happy the Wahoo wall cool so I saw videos of the Wahoo walk and it's like damn it's a real college football team you know you see commercials for the ACC Network SEC network Big Ten blah blah you always see the guys in the suits walking through the game fans high five now we have that you know uh so that's really cool can't wait to see it uh for in person uh the post game good old song in front of the student body it wasn't like a million people but it's the first time they did it it will grow and it will turn into a tradition that sticks I hope and hopefully win a bunch of games at home and we get to uh have a million students there in the post game Tony Elliott was talking about how he had a he had a I don't think he called a timeout for it but he had to get the guys together and he's like oh I need you guys to to celebrate your win celebrate your victories like he he made a note to say the energy which just wasn't wasn't what I needed to be and he actually called them in and huddled them in it's like yeah when you see somebody grinding for you know a yard or two yards like got something we cheer about so great a three-yard run or they like carried a bunch of people with them and they're like you gotta like don't take that three hour play for granted you know you can tell that the culture is good culture is good yeah that was the next thing um seeing it's just something fun about it right so they have a Chris Long posted it you have uh they hold up the play signs to kind of signal but I mean from the sidelines and one of them was uh Chris long there's a famous picture of him like in a gas station in like a disguise and uh they just interviewed him on CBS 19 or whatever as there's some random guy in Charlottesville uh and it was actually Chris long so they've had one of those he was on one of the play calling signs so it was just a fun vibe yeah the orange uniforms fun play calling stuff the Wahoo walk uh Tony uh Elliot hold people accountable excitement looks like things were in the right hands um and besides that it's just good to have the team back right like sometimes you take it for granted we have a team a national brand that plays in the city we live in the area we live in there are people all over the country who don't have that option the closest sporting you know major sporting event is hours away sometimes states away and we have it right in our backyard we see it around town Savers everywhere lawn flags up on the street you know we're in Charlottesville right now I gotta flag up it's like my street was like five six five it's so cool and it's just happy that the football team is back it was a place to go on Saturday it changes the city I wish we'd even that's something I'll talk about next oh sure you shut the city down on Saturdays uh that might that might we'll talk about that next whatever grade would you give um first game performance we won first game performance a b a b uh one thing that I was like you see the first half right you see the a view of the Hill pack of students and then you see the second half and there's literally like seven people on the hill so we were up 28 to seven at halftime and I feel like I thought we had it in the bag and everyone dipped out but then in the second half you know it's kind of like a mirror image of the team right team played great in the first half second half I thought we had in the bag a little bit of a struggle in the second half so I wish that if we could just try to shut the city down and make everyone go to Scott Stadium on Saturdays when there's a home game you know I I couldn't make it I had to work but you know if it was like ingrained in the culture more and you know stores weren't open on Saturdays when there's home games maybe uh you know more people will be able to get up to the stadium I was looking in Jerry Radcliffe's uh big UVA history book man so many pictures I'm looking at and this the bowl is full the bottom bowl and the upper bowl and I hope that is is coming once again coach Tony Elliott challenged the fans after the game in his post game presser and you know that's what I'm saying is holding people accountable holding the fans accountable holding the fan base accountable me included you know I gotta work on Saturday bro get to the game um I hear it but I think uh you know we're headed in the right direction okay before we get to the ACC stuff let me make this clear Virginia college football went to work in week one UVA double digit win against Richmond William and FCS School beat an FBS School smoked them actually about 20 points beat Charlotte uh one cool thing to note about William and Mary Cam Newton's brother is a wide receiver for for them Caitlin Newton he used to be a quarterback at Howard and played at Auburn and now he's at William and Mary reuniting with his old Howard coach uh Mike London but yeah it won't even marry one Liberty one and double overtime the only thing that lost was Virginia Tech so just something to note from the first week of college football action all right week one week one uh week one we're gonna run through the games this is our scoreboard games described in four words or less on Colin coward show he does the three word game I like it um first game first games good for the league Pittsburgh beat West Virginia Florida State blsu those are huge wins for the ACC as you know the SEC Big Ten are all the talk right now it's like the big two but you know ACC is like a little distant third well we went out beat LSU went out beat West Virginia on a Prime Time game with everyone watching that was like both great football games and great wins for the conference next up home Dogs Gone bark Syracuse at home in the dome was an underdog to Louisville beat them down Syracuse uh won 31-7 cool yeah Sean Tucker starting his Heisman campaign Robert and I formerly of UVA Dr Bob you know put together a nice game plan he's the defense is is a whole bunch of studs uh getting points at home in the ACC that's uh they felt disrespected and they showed that next up need to see more Clemson 41 Georgia Tech 10. Wake Forest 44 VMI 10th yes good wins both cover the big old spreads but dju looked roof for at least a quarter or maybe a quarter more and then and I started texting people I'm like yo this I don't he might not Becca's about to come in uh you know I got it together put a couple drives in but Georgia Tech we know down don't have a lot of players returning from last year's team so yeah need to see more from uh Clemson to kind of give them a full assessment I think you know they got college football playoff folks and they can definitely get there but dju's got to be better for the the whole game they got players man they got will Shipley's a baller and a defense up front great talent all over gotta get you know yeah push the ball down the field and dju's got to be the one to do that uh Wake Forest new quarterback in Sam Hartman's got a medical thing uh Mitch Griffis is now the quarterback at Wake Forest uh I covered him in high school um up in Northern Virginia and uh he's a good player and they put it on VMI but again hard to really take a lot from uh a VMI team that's had a lot of turnover and Sam Harvard might be back this week yep saw that coming here's the next uh grouping North Carolina went to App State NC State played at East Carolina and Virginia Tech went to ODU I tweeted out I don't know how many weeks ago about this specific three group a game this was this specific group of games that I said they're gonna go one and two or their death zone is definitely going to lose well it happened Tech lost to ODU going on the road in state you know cool go on the road and state it's good for football and all that and it's you know for the smaller teams that they want to see it's like the Super Bowl in in their cities but you put yourself at risk by doing that Virginia Tech paid the price losing the ODU NC State preseason Player of the Year a quarterback went in and barely escaped ECU EC was a sleeper team Holden ehlers been around for a long time Duke and ball yeah he's a vet a real vet and they were a couple kicks away from losing that game like look watch the highlights they were a couple kicks away from losing the ECU all respect to ECU when they're good that football town is great um North Carolina shootout with App State 63-61. we didn't expect that no well we were down in North Carolina everyone was like best football atmosphere in the state App State uh it's a football town and you know they fired the DC from last year and brought in um brought in gene schizek formal former National Championship winning uh coach at Auburn he'd been on TV for the last five years he hasn't coached since like 2015. brought him in and my man uh led the defense that allowed 61 points to Appalachian State so rough look for him next next grouping New Era who it is Duke 30 to nothing against temple temple was a proud program not too long ago they are currently a dumpster fire and it's it's sad to see when uh but good for Duke I mean they might win two or three games this year or that could be their only wins but if you look in the media guide now uh Elko is the program leader for winning percentage because he's now 1-0 in Duke history as is Tony Elliott from Virginia um the alien era is 1-0 so of all the great coaches they've had Bronco Mendenhall George Welsh Tony Aya is now the leader in win percentage um for in program history and then uh Mario crystal ball as well Miami 170-13 so all those new coaches are one and want to know undefeated at their respective schools uh what's next oh the last one the last ACC game of uh week one ouch my foot hurts because Boston College literally shot themselves in the foot gave the game away at the start of the fourth quarter they had an 84 chance to to beat Rutgers uh per ESPN and they gave the game away turnovers box snaps in their own territory it was rough to see uh credit Rutgers who hired grecciano back a few years ago when he's kind of building that program up but man all game long you thought Boston College had it in the bag Rutgers really doesn't have a quarterback to speak of and have a tough time moving the ball through the air and uh meanwhile Boston College has one of the best quarterbacks in the nation from a pure talent perspective uh filter kovic's going to play in the pros and he's got a Canon it's fun to just watch him back there throwing it around uh but yeah tough loss for Boston College but they'll win a few games this year you know uh they gotta they got they like Rutgers they're a team also on the right okay now we're into week two yeah what's coming up lots of games good ones um Louisville is on Friday at UCF Louisville coming off that loss against Syracuse on the road as favorites got their doors blown off uh Scott Satterfield is his seat is super duper hot this might be his last season um so that's Friday's not Friday night all right into Saturday Virginia traveling to Illinois uh Illinois Illinois is a four and a half Point favorite listen we beat Illinois by a ton last year 30 points but they had the backup quarterback in it was out on our turf this year they've upgraded the quarterback position brought in Tommy DeVito a former four-star recruit from Syracuse he's uh had flashes of greatness it's on their Turf I'm sure they're going to be looking for Retribution tough team in my crystal ball episode I picked this as a loss uh but you know I'm still hoping we pull the upset on the road against Illinois Southern Miss at Miami Miami's a 26 Point favorite listen they look good they weren't really playing anyone in the first week uh this is a little bit of an upgrading opponent I don't think they're gonna win by 60. Wake Forest minus 9.5 at Vandy you know when I was real young I would always get Wake Forest and dandy confused and I'm sure there's people out there listening to us that say the same thing your post college football teams and they're both black and gold and they're both not the best in their Christians and uh historically and yeah so cool to see them play each other but uh WIC is a favorite on the road with Mitch Griffis and Vandy keep in mind has Nick Howell as their defensive coordinator formerly of Virginia and he was the uh the architect of last year's Virginia Defense so take that for what it's worth Duke at Northwestern the battle is there a name for this the brain bowl or something like that too great two great uh academic schools Duke the second game of Mike elko's uh career at in Durham uh heading up to Evanston to play Northwestern I always like watching Northwestern football for whatever reason it's just uh you know either an under kind of similar to to do if they're kind of Underdog in their conference put together some decent Seasons you know just getting to a bowl is a big deal for them so they're off to a a 1-0 start too they beat Nebraska in Ireland so so yeah I'm excited to see that game North Carolina Fresh Off Their shootout at App State we'll be playing our third game of the season already uh minus seven and a half at Georgia State Tar Heels going on the road taking the tour taking the tour of the South this uh this season so Tar Heels minus seven and a half uh Tennessee seven point favorites at Pitt so hey pit played out exciting nationally televised game against uh West Virginia in the Backyard Brawl welcome in Tennessee to their uh field in in this in week two so that's gonna be another game that people really want to keep their eyes on because hey Pittsburgh gets a win against an SEC school that's great for the brand it would be awesome uh Syracuse minus 23 at UConn Yukon one of the worst teams in the country but uh they hired a new coach yeah Jim Moore hired a new coach Jim Mora former College NFL guy trying to resurrect that program I don't know how well he's going to do on the recruiting Trail but they can only go up from where they've been the last few years uh Boston College at Virginia Tech so an ACC match up here uh attack is three and a half Point favorites trying to right the wrongs that happened in the ODU game uh and then there's three games that don't have lines they are uh Furman at Clemson so you know Furman there's some connections to our program uh Tony Elliott and Dez kitchens both coached at Furman and I think uh our assistant strength coach as well Charleston Southern at NC State I feel bad for Charleston Southern because the way the NC State as close as that was um first ECU that's the team that has the ability to go and hang points on people and uh they're going to be out to prove that was a fluke in week one and then Western Carolina at Georgia Tech uh none of those games have lines this will be this could be one of the only games Georgia Tech wins this season but hey look however Western Carolina you never know thank you guys for checking us out if you want to I'd appreciate it subscribe on the platforms leave a review on Spotify you can leave a five-star review on an Apple you can leave a five-star review or for whatever what do you think whatever you think of a show you know I'm not just the more reviews the better um and yeah at Virginia gave me on Instagram uh slacky Brown media on YouTube that's where all of our content is housed there's a whole playlist for Virginia game day for these videos uh and yeah virginiagamery.com for our newsletter so thank you so much appreciate it all up go who's we'll see you next time