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Virginia Football Non-Conference Opponents Set for Next Three Seasons
With the massive announcement this week that Virginia and Tennessee will face one another in Nashville to start the 2023 school soccer season, UVA’s non-conference schedule is now set for the following three seasons:
2022
- September third: vs. Richmond
- September tenth: at Illinois
- September seventeenth: vs. Previous Dominion
- November nineteenth: vs. Coastal Carolina
2023
- September 2nd: vs. Tennessee (Nashville)
- September ninth: vs. James Madison
- September sixteenth: at Maryland
- TBA: vs. William & Mary
2024
- August thirty first: vs. Richmond
- September 14th: vs. Maryland
- September twenty first: at Coastal Carolina
- November sixteenth: at Notre Dame
Takeaways
Tony Elliott can have ample alternative to rack up some wins in his first season in Charlottesville. In keeping with ESPN’s FPI rankings launched earlier this week, Virginia’s energy of schedule is ranked 74th within the nation. UVA has the simplest schedule within the Atlantic Coast Convention and the second-easiest schedule in all of Energy 5 soccer (credit score to Danny Neckel on Twitter for digging up that stat).
That comparatively straightforward schedule begins with Virginia’s slate of 4 non-conference opponents this fall. UVA’s sport in opposition to Coastal Carolina in late November will probably be probably the most troublesome of the bunch to win. The Chanticleers, led by 2020 Related Press Coach of the Yr Jamey Chadwell, have turned in a 22-3 file within the final two seasons out of the Solar Belt Convention.
Virginia can even go to Illinois because the second a part of a home-and-home collection. A street sport at a Massive Ten opponent is not any stroll within the park, however the Combating Illini aren’t precisely the category of the Massive Ten both, going 5-7 in 2021 together with a blowout 42-14 loss at Virginia. Illinois has not had a successful season since 2011. The Cavaliers can even host in-state opponents Previous Dominion and Richmond this season.
Apart from the Coastal Carolina sport in November, UVA’s 2022 non-conference slate isn’t very thrilling and definitely not probably the most troublesome. That can change beginning in 2023. Given the massive video games Tony Elliott was accustomed to teaching in throughout his time at Clemson, it comes as no shock that he has made an instantaneous effort to place an enormous title on Virginia’s non-conference schedule. UVA will tackle Tennessee at Nissan Stadium in Nashville to kickoff the 2023 school soccer season. Taking part in an SEC opponent in what’s going to primarily be a street sport to begin the season says rather a lot about Tony Elliott’s confidence in the place his Virginia soccer program will probably be in 12 months 2. This would be the first time the Cavaliers face an SEC opponent within the common season since 2003.
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In March, Virginia introduced the scheduling of a sport in opposition to James Madison, a long-awaited assembly between the Commonwealth foes who haven’t confronted one another since 1983. The Cavaliers and Dukes will battle at Scott Stadium on September ninth, 2023. UVA can also be set to play at Maryland in 2023, renewing the outdated ACC rivalry with the Terrapins as the primary a part of a home-and-home collection that was initially agreed upon between the 2 packages means again in January 2017, simply after Bronco Mendenhall completed his first season at UVA. Virginia can even host William & Mary in 2023.
In 2024, the Cavaliers host Richmond for his or her in-state non-conference sport. Virginia is ready to host Maryland to finish the home-and-home collection because the Terrapins come to Scott Stadium for the primary time since 2012.
UVA will go to Conway, South Carolina on September twenty first to play Coastal Carolina at Brooks Stadium. That’s the second of a three-game collection between Virginia and Coastal Carolina. The Chanticleers will return to Charlottesville to face the Cavaliers in 2025.
A visit to South Bend to face Notre Dame in November rounds out what ought to be one other entertaining and probably difficult non-conference schedule in 2024 for Virginia soccer.
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