| abstract | - The Maryland–Virginia football rivalry is an American college football rivalry game played annually by the Maryland Terrapins football team of the University of Maryland and the Virginia Cavaliers football team of the University of Virginia. The Terrapins and Cavaliers first met on the football field in 1919, and the series has been played annually without interruption since 1957. Maryland leads the all-time series with a total record of 43–32–2, although Virginia is 15–6 in the rivalry since 1992. Maryland possesses the longest winning streak of the series, sixteen games between 1972 and 1987, while Virginia has the second longest streak with nine consecutive wins ending in 2000. On November 19, 2012, the University of Maryland's Board of Regents voted to withdraw from the Atlantic Coast Conference to join the Big Ten Conference effective in 2014. As of April 2013, it is unknown whether the Virginia–Maryland series will continue after the 2013 season. __TOC__
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