The Virginia football team generated a lot of excitement for fans late last season as it marched to nine wins. That included a four-game winning streak in November that saw the Hoos take down both of their chief rivals in North Carolina and Virginia Tech. The latter snapped a 15-game skid against the Hokies.
That surge at the end of the season secured UVA’s first ACC Coastal Division title, its first appearance in the ACC Championship Game, and its first invitation to the Orange Bowl.
Still, a little more than a month apart, the co-defensive coordinators for the Cavaliers met with reporters and shared a similar line of thinking. Neither Nick Howell nor Kelly Poppinga could shake the feeling that the defense didn’t play up to the expected standards late last season.
It’s clearly still gnawing at them months later.
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