If Rich Rodriguez was the one man who did the most to improve his stock between Saturday morning and Saturday night, probably no single person or team -- not Maryland, Sam Bradford or even Ron Zook and Illinois -- took a harder fall than Al Groh. Quoth the Washington Post:

Cavaliers Try Three Quarterbacks, Wind Up With Seven Turnovers: William & Mary 26, Virginia 14

All three quarterbacks were predictably terrible, even converted cornerback Vic Hall, whose athleticism lived up to the hype with a 34-yard touchdown run on the first series but couldn't overcome his inexperience and inaccuracy in the passing game. (He was 2-of-5 for seven yards, or 1.4 yards per attempt.) Jameel Sewell, who was at least adept at avoiding the neck-breaking mistake as a starter in 2006-07, threw three interceptions in his first game back from academic purgatory, including the icing pick-six with a little over three minutes to go in the fourth quarter. The Cavs fumbled five times and lost four.

Groh didn't attempt to sugarcoat the reaction waiting for him this week -- "There will be a lot of negativity out there ... some of it well deserved." -- but say this for the man: He's comfortable in a sizzling chair, and has been in one of the hottest in the country for going on three years now. The last time the Cavs stirred up the "Groh Must Go" headlines with a hideous opening day loss, a 23-3 flop at Wyoming in 2007, they responded by eking out one of the most improbable nine-win seasons in history and wound up one play shy of winning the Gator Bowl. Sewell was the quarterback then, too, and orchestrated five dramatic fourth-quarter comebacks to lift the team out of the cellar and Groh's head out of the guillotine. But if the odds of that happening were impossibly long two years ago, the odds of it happening twice are unfathomable.