The 1954 Virginia Cavaliers football team represented the University of Virginia during the

1954 college football season The 1954 college football season saw three teams finish unbeaten and untied, with Ohio State Buckeyes and the UCLA Bruins sharing the national championship as the No. 1 picks of the AP Poll and the UPI Poll, respectively. Although the winners o ...

. The Cavaliers were led by second-year head coach

Ned McDonald Ned L. McDonald (January 2, 1910 – February 8, 1977) was an American football coach. He served as the head football coach at the University of Virginia from 1953 to 1955. He played college football at the University of Texas from 1937 to 1939 u ...

and played their home games at

Scott Stadium Scott Stadium is a stadium located in Charlottesville, Virginia. It is the home of the Virginia Cavaliers football team. It sits on the University of Virginia's Grounds, east of Hereford College and first-year dorms on Alderman Road but west of B ...

Charlottesville, Virginia Charlottesville, colloquially known as C'ville, is an independent city in the Commonwealth of Virginia. It is the county seat of Albemarle County, which surrounds the city, though the two are separate legal entities. It is named after Queen Ch ...

. This was their first year competing in the

Atlantic Coast Conference The Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) is a collegiate athletic conference located in the eastern United States. Headquartered in Greensboro, North Carolina, the ACC's fifteen member universities compete in the National Collegiate Athletic Associa ...

, which was in its second year of existence. Virginia failed to pick up its first ACC win, finishing 0–2 against conference opponents.

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