College Park, MD—

If defense solely was responsible for victories in football then the Maryland Terps easily would have one of the best records in the ACC, but since there are two parts of the game, the result in today’s mess of a game was Virginia coming out on top 20-9 after Maryland could only manage three field goals to their impressive defensive effort.

This game remained close until the Terps made yet another offensive mistake when Chris Turner tossed a pass that deflected off Cavs linebacker Darren Childs right into the hands of Defensive End Nate Collins, who broke to his left and took off down the sideline into the end zone for the first of two touchdowns for the Cavaliers.

"I thought we played very hard. Offensively we did some things that were good but they were negated by our turnovers. It's the same story over and over again. Until that gets fixed it's going to be hard to win football games. The [wet] ball was tough tonight, but Virginia did a better job of managing it,” said Terps Head Coach Ralph Friedgen.

Virginia played the fourth quarter without quarterback Jameel Sewell, who left with an undisclosed injury. The Cavaliers finished with 67 yards rushing, the first time in 16 games since 1957 that Virginia beat Maryland when rushing for fewer than 100 yards.

On the opposite side of the field the Cavaliers who made it look easy against Indiana last week, certainly had their own troubles today, but nothing that Head Coach Al Groh said couldn’t be fixed.

"That was a magnificent effort by our players. They dealt with everything that we encountered today, whether it was guys having to step up, circumstances within the ballgame, they refused to be distracted by any issues. We had a target for what the mission was today. They took aim at that target and they weren't going to be distracted by anything. As a result, they did something they can be very proud of,” said Groh.