Virginia Soccer | No. 6 Virginia Travels to SMU Friday

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — The No. 6 Virginia males’s soccer staff (9-1-4, 4-0-3) is ready to journey to SMU (7-3-4, 3-1-3) at Washburne Stadium on Friday (Oct. 31). Kickoff is ready for 7 p.m. ET on ACC Network Extra.

How to Follow:
Friday’s match in opposition to SMU will Stream on ACC Network Extra which is on the market by means of the ESPN app and at WatchESPN.com for patrons who’ve the ACC Network as a part of their TV subscription. Links to each the published and reside stats can be found at VirginiaSports activities.com. Fans can even get updates by following this system’s official Twitter account (@UVAMenSoccer).

For Openers: 

• The Cavaliers are set for his or her fifth assembly with SMU all-time. UVA is 1-3 within the all-time collection with the Mustangs.
• Since the beginning of 2022, UVA has gone 16-3-7 within the month of October.
• UVA enters the sport driving an 11-game unbeaten streak and are one in every of simply seven groups in NCAA Division I with an energetic unbeaten streak of 10+ video games.
• The Cavaliers stay undefeated in ACC play with a report of 4-0-3. The final time Virginia went unbeaten in ACC play was in 2001 when the staff went 6-0-0.
• Virginia head coach George Gelnovatch enters his thirtieth season on the helm. He has amassed a report of 386-164-75 and guided this system to a pair of NCAA titles and 4 ACC championships.

What’s at Stake

• Sitting on 15 factors, the Cavaliers are second within the ACC Standings, one level behind first-place Stanford.
• UVA can win the ACC common season title with win at SMU and a Stanford loss or draw
• Virginia has already clinched a house sport within the 2026 ACC Men’s Soccer Championship

October Hoos

• UVA has been spectacular within the later phases of the common season in recent times. Each of the final three seasons has featured prolonged scorching streaks in late autumn.
• Since the beginning of 2022, UVA has gone 16-3-7 in October
• The 2022 season featured an eight-game unbeaten run (3-0-5) that began on Oct. 7—Virginia performed six top-25 groups over that stretch earlier than happening to earn the No. 4 general seed within the NCAA event.
• Virginia tore off a 10-game unbeaten run (7-0-3) in 2023 en path to the No. 7 seed within the NCAA event.
• The staff gained 5 consecutive video games in 2024 and 6 of its final seven on its method to the No. 11 seed.

NCAA Selection Committee Ranking

• The Cavaliers had been ranked No. 3 within the NCAA Division I Men’s Soccer Selection Committee’s top-16 rankings introduced Friday night (Oct. 17)
• Based on outcomes by means of video games of October 14, Princeton, Stanford, Virginia and Portland obtained the highest 4 seeds. The high 4 seeds are essential, as if the seeds maintain these 4 groups would have the chance to host quarterfinal matches with a bid to the Men’s College Cup on the road.
• The rating relies on the factors used to pick and seed the 48 groups for the Division I Men’s Soccer Championship and in no specific order contains energy of schedule, Rating Percentage Index, head-to-head competitors, outcomes versus widespread opponents, energy and outcomes in opposition to non-conference opponents, late season efficiency within the final eight video games and energy and outcomes in opposition to convention opponents.

Results Against Top-10 Opposition

• Virginia was examined early with a run of three consecutive matches in opposition to opponents ranked within the nation’s top-10. The Cavaliers went 2-0-1 in opposition to No. 8 Virginia Tech (T, 2-2), No. 6 Louisville (W, 1-0) and No. 1 Wake Forest (W, 6-3).
• The stretch marked the primary time UVA matched up with three-straight top-10 opponents since 2022 when Virginia went 2-1-1 in opposition to No. 3 Syracuse, No. 10 Pitt, No. 10 Denver and No. 2 Duke.
• The final time UVA opened ACC play with back-to-back highway matches in opposition to top-10 foes was in 2000, when No. 11 Virginia posted a 2-0 win at No. 5 Wake Forest earlier than defeating No. 10 North Carolina 3-1 in Chapel Hill.
• UVA then went on to topple No. 2 NC State (W, 1-0) on the highway.
• The Cavaliers maintain a report of 97-76-39 in opposition to top-10 opposition all-time
• Since the beginning of 2022, Virginia has recorded 14 optimistic outcomes (wins or attracts) in opposition to top-10 opponents with eight of these outcomes approaching the highway:

Result	Opponent	Date
W, 1-0	at No. 3 Syracuse	9/24/22
W, 3-1	at No. 10 Pitt	9/30/22
T, 0-0	vs No. 2 Duke	10/7/22
T, 2-2	at No. 3 Syracuse	*11/9/22
T, 1-1	vs No. 9 Marshall	*11/20/22
T, 1-1	at No. 9 JMU	9/12/23
W, 3-0	vs No. 8 Louisville	9/29/23
W, 1-0	vs No. 10 UNC	10/27/23
W, 1-0	vs No. 8 JMU	10/8/24
W, 2-0	at No. 9 Pitt	11/10/24
T, 2-2	at No. 8 Virginia Tech	9/5/25
W, 1-0	at No. 6 Louisville	9/13/25
W, 6-3	vs No. 1 Wake Forest	9/19/25
W, 1-0	at No. 2 NC State	10/5/25

*Opponent superior on penalties in postseason play

The Virginia Standard

• As an 11-seed in 2024, the Cavaliers earned a primary spherical bye within the NCAA event for the third consecutive season.
• UVA is one in every of simply 5 packages to earn first-round byes in every of the final three seasons and is the one program that earned a number of top-eight seeds in that span.
• The Cavaliers are coming off their second ACC Semifinal look in three seasons.