#80 Virginia

Charlottesville, VA

Scott Stadium

September 26, 2025

Virginia 46 - FSU 38 (2OT) (ESPN Recap)

We rushed the field after a 2OT win! College football is the best!

As someone eloquently put it a couple of days after this game “I guess when you travel around to as many random ass games as you do, you stumble into a really good one.” I would argue that a game between the #1 and #5 YPG offenses in CFB and a top 10 ranked conference opponent on a Friday night isn’t that random, and I think being joined by #1 (Stephen @ 16) and #3 (Sebastian @ 8) on my Friend Attendance Tracker for the game backs that up.

We rushed the field!

Incredible football game and outcome in this game. I went in with a small bet on FSU -7 which was mostly dead all game and had small pockets of glimmer before losing. Then larger bets on the FSU TTO for 1H (16.5) and game (34.5) which I should have lost both of but won both instead. The two overs both hit, sort of in miraculous ways, as FSU was losing 0-7 at then end of Q1, scored a flurry of 21 points in 3:30 late Q2, and then threw this TD on 4th and goal from the 11 to force OT at…35-35.

Chandler Morris delivered a pretty epic performance at QB1 for the Hoos. Throwing for 229 yds and 2 TDs to 9 different receivers, while also running for another 3 TDs. Weird to say he was the best player on the field since he also threw 3 interceptions, but he probably was.

Check out all four #0s as captains lined up consecutively at the coin toss! After trading field goals in OT going in the direction opposite the UVA student section, they turned towards the UVA student section for 2OT and led off with this Chandler Morris TD scramble:

Then they also converted the 2-pt convo. Look at where the fans are lined up for the 2pt convo and then compare to the field rush videos where they were.

FSU had a chance to hold serve down 8 in 2OT and on 2nd down, Tommy Castellanos threw a dart of a pass down the right sideline and hit his favorite WR #0 open at the goal line. It looked like he caught the TD while juggling it for 10-yards and getting just barely one of his feet down in bounds. He probably was worried a bit about crashing into 5,000 students. Called a TD on the field. However, upon review, he juggled the ball right after that final foot was down, and at that point, his entire body and both feet were out of bounds. They overturned it to incomplete and made it 3rd down. Controversial call, but seemed like the right one and what we wanted to see the flood of students explode from the hill.

This was UVA’s first win over a top-10 team in 20 years, and fans were saying it was their most important win since 1995. They did rush the field twice in 2019, once for beating a ranked FSU and once for beating their Va Tech rivals for the first time in 16 years. However, UVA was not ready for the moment: 1) They did not cancel Friday classes, so students were in school until mid-afternoon; 2) The tailgate scene, which should have been ripping from 10am onwards, was absolutely dead 3.5 hours

before kickoff.

It wasn’t even full by 1 hour before kickoff; 3) Games and cornhole are apparently not big at UVA tailgates. We found three cornhole sets and one can jam set after doing an entire perimeter walk of the stadium 1-2 hours before kickoff. There were a ton of flower arrangements on tables at the tailgates...a noticeable large number of flower bouquets;

4) The student section prematurely filled into the student section with 2:30 left in Q4, before having their hearts stabbed by the comeback drive and OT forcing play;

5) The student section had no tangible boundary between them and the field…which led to them creeping closer and closer in the overtime periods, until they were standing on the back boundary red chalk. This was reckless/dangerous on the school and their part, but I am so glad it happened because it led to legendary rushing of the field content. 6) After the field rush, the school didn’t know what to do or how to clear the field. 7) Traffic flows were even worse than usual for the situation, because they allowed for the shuttle busses to be right by the stadium, on the roads that were overcome by pedestrian traffic; 8) But the football team was ready for the moment! Check out these locker room photos they posted!

As underwhelming as the tailgate scene was, we were grateful to be adopted by Andy and Kristen’s tent and cornhole boards, and stayed there for a bunch.

Walked into the stadium to see the horse that runs out with a woman rider holding a saber, and Stephen was able to pick up dinner throughout the 1H (aka 3 Pepsi sodas and a cotton candy).

There was a solid Public Killers.

Boylan Heights for shots and friends feeding one another pizza.

For the second time, Sebastian picked me up from a regional airport on a game weekend.

If anyone is looking for a job, the Home Depot in Charlottesville, VA is aggressively serving Instagram ads to…seemingly all people who geo-locate in their city, even if just visiting for the biggest home game of the year.

Everyone, please enjoy more content from the field rush!