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- The Virginia Cavaliers football team represents the University of Virginia in the sport of American football. Established in 1888, Virginia plays its home games at Scott Stadium, capacity 61,500, featured directly on its campus near the Academical Village. UVA played an outsized role in the shaping of the modern game's ethics and eligibility rules, as well as its safety rules after a Georgia fullback died fighting the tide of a lopsided Virginia victory in 1897. Quickly asserting itself as the South's first great program with 28 straight winning seasons from its first in 1888, Virginia football claimed 12 southern championships and was the first Southern program to defeat perennial power (26-time national champions) Yale, in a 10–0 shocker at the Yale Bowl in 1915. During those early days, Virginia established long-lasting rivalries that still continue on: particularly the South's Oldest Rivalry with North Carolina and a heated rivalry with Virginia Tech. Virginia has also played (now FCS) William & Mary annually or biennially for extended stretches since 1908. Virginia lost its mantle as the region's mark of success between World War I and World War II, but soon thereafter Art Guepe had Virginia winning big again. To avoid the trappings of "big-time football", university president Colgate Darden reduced scholarship and recruiting support, argued against joining the ACC, and declined an invite for Virginia to play unbeaten Georgia Tech in the 1952 Orange Bowl. The Board of Visitors voted to join the ACC anyway, but Guepe left for Vanderbilt and under Dick Voris Virginia embarked on a 28-game losing streak from 1958 to 1960, as Darden retired. Voris left with a record of 1–29, his lone victory a 15–12 nailbiter against Duke. Still limited by a relative lack of funding in those times, his successors managed moderately better records through the 1960s and 1970s. George Welsh led a dramatic turnaround effort from 1982, and took Virginia to its first dozen and even its first AP No. 1 ranking throughout October 1990. He was the first ACC coach to reach 100 wins, and retired in 2000 with the most ACC wins (his 85 ranking second to Bobby Bowden as of 2021) of any coach in history. In November 1995, similar to winning the first Southern victory against Yale 80 years prior, Virginia was the first ACC team to defeat Bowden's Florida State teams after they started 29–0 in the conference. The nationally televised event led FSU's President to create the Jefferson-Eppes Trophy, which Virginia again (as of 2021) holds in Charlottesville after winning the latest matchup in 2019. Virginia remains the only ACC Coastal division program to have ever been ranked AP No. 1 in the nation as an ACC member. The Cavaliers have been participants in one New Year's Six bowl to date, the 2019 Orange Bowl; Virginia's 21 bowl games have also included four Peach Bowls, the Sugar Bowl, and Citrus Bowl, among others. Virginia has thus far produced 11 Consensus All-Americans. (en)
- La squadra di football dei Virginia Cavaliers rappresenta l'Università della Virginia. I Cavaliers competono nella Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) della National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) e nella Coastal Division della Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC). Fondati nel 1888, nei primi anni sfidarono le locali YMCA e altre squadre dello stato senza alcun indumento protettivo. Il programma si è evoluto in seguito diventando multimilionario. La squadra disputa le sue gare interne davanti ai 61.500 tifosi dello Scott Stadium di Charlottesville, Virginia. I Cavaliers hanno tradizionalmente tre rivalità maggiori nel football: , e Maryland. La più vecchia rivalità della AAC è infatti quella tra Virginia e North Carolina. I Cavaliers inoltre competono per Commonwealth Cup contro Virginia Tech. Fino al 2014, giocavano annualmente il Beltway Brawl contro Maryland ma il futuro della rivalità è incerto avendo Maryland lasciato la ACC (venendo sostituita da ). (it)
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- The Virginia Cavaliers football team represents the University of Virginia in the sport of American football. Established in 1888, Virginia plays its home games at Scott Stadium, capacity 61,500, featured directly on its campus near the Academical Village. UVA played an outsized role in the shaping of the modern game's ethics and eligibility rules, as well as its safety rules after a Georgia fullback died fighting the tide of a lopsided Virginia victory in 1897. (en)
- La squadra di football dei Virginia Cavaliers rappresenta l'Università della Virginia. I Cavaliers competono nella Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) della National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) e nella Coastal Division della Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC). Fondati nel 1888, nei primi anni sfidarono le locali YMCA e altre squadre dello stato senza alcun indumento protettivo. Il programma si è evoluto in seguito diventando multimilionario. La squadra disputa le sue gare interne davanti ai 61.500 tifosi dello Scott Stadium di Charlottesville, Virginia. (it)
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