Scattershooting around the ACC, while wondering if the gap between the former Division I-A (now FBS) and I-AA (now FCS) football programs is narrowing ...

“I could have sworn that I had another half sack,” Clint Sintim yelled. “I thought I actually had two.”

It seemed quite fitting that Al Groh tore a page out of Richmond coach Mike London’s celebration playbook on “Retro Day.”

• SLIDESHOW: UVa vs Richmond
• PODCAST: Groh’s Richmond after game interview (MP3)
• UVa vs. Richmond forum thread.

There was very little chance that Cedric Peerman wasn’t coming back in against Richmond. Flak jacket, whatever — he was coming back.

The Cavaliers (0-1), at this point, would likely settle with merely flashing back to last season. After a disheartening loss last year at Wyoming in the opening game, the Cavaliers promptly won their next seven straight games and climbed into the national polls for the first time since 2005.

It didn’t take long for the naysayers to come out of the woodwork and declare the 2008 Virginia football season officially over.

An impending date with the University of Richmond may have never looked so appealing.