Virginia dominates NC State in woeful Wolfpack opener
Josh Pate awards his weekly 'Sarah McLachlan Special' to NC State after the Wolfpack were dominated in a 34-8 beatdown. Subscribe to "Josh Pate's College Football Show" on YouTube .
Video Transcript
It is right now very easy to see Virginia making it all the way to the ACC championship game in Charlotte in December.
But that's not my biggest takeaway in this game.
20 of 22 starters for Virginia are upperclassmen.
There are multiple guys on that offensive line that had to go pick up their kids after the game yesterday, but that's not my biggest takeaway from this game.
In fact, I can't even give you my biggest takeaway by myself.
That's why I had the staff wheel this grand piano in here about 5:30 this afternoon, because an extra special visitor has decided to grace us with her presence again once per Sunday this year.
Her name is Sarah McLaughlin, and the Sarah McLaughlin special of week zero, North Carolina State, outgained 413 to 168 and outrushed 258 to 76.
Virginia possessed the ball an entire quarter longer than them, and I know some of you are time of possession deniers.
Try denying that final score there.
There was a TVMA drive at one point in the third quarter, as Meemaw would call it, that was 23 plays.
That included 18 runs.
It lasted over 12 minutes, and that was in the third quarter, and there are already bodies everywhere.
And then you get to the end of the game, and 34-8's the final, and what do we do?
Being the sadistic people that we are, we pull up the Virginia drive chart.
Hide the women and children for a second.
Here we go.
Punt, punt, interception, punt, punt, fumble, punt, punt.
Out of boredom, there is a touchdown here.
A turnover on downs, punt, end of game.
Your Sarah McLaughlin special for week one, the NC State Wolfpack, or what is left of them.
It was sad.
I know a lot of you bailed on that game.
It was sad.
We move on.
