Game Preview 2012: Georgia Tech


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Fan Essentials

Game Nuggets

  • This game begins UVa’s 59th season of ACC play.
  • Virginia’s record in all-time road openers is 43-74-3. The program snapped a five-game losing streak inroad openers last season by winning 34-31 at Indiana.
  • This game represents the 650th game played at Bobby Dodd Stadium.
  • This is the 35th meeting in this series, which Virginia leads 17-16-1. The teams have split the last two matchups and the series is deadlocked over the last six. In the last seven meetings between the two teams, the home team has won five times. In last season’s meeting, the Hoos won 24-21 as they outrushed the Yellow Jackets 274-272.
  • The last time the Cavaliers won their ACC opener was in 2009 at North Carolina (16-3).

Storyline

Dominique Terrell and the Hoos open ACC play at GT.

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