“I am responsible for how they are prepared and I am responsible for how they execute. Clearly, the outcome today showed that I didn’t prepare them well enough in all three phases of the game to handle this opponent in this setting and give us the chance to win.” ~ Bronco Mendenhall

Yup!

When a team sets seasonal highs on both sides of the ball for ineptitude in a college football game, there’s not a lot of mystery as to where the game grades come out. In fact, the 42-point loss to Virginia Tech that ended the Hoos’ season is a larger margin than the combined 20 points that separated the two schools in UVA’s last four losses. You have to go back to 2011 to find a bigger whuppin’ in Virginia’s 38-0 home loss to the Hokies that year.

How bad was it, really?

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