Somebody will be emerge from Scott Stadium today with a six-game winning streak and possibly a Top 25 rating.

For undefeated Connecticut, that would be a first. The Huskies have not been ranked in The Associated Press Top 25 since they made the jump from Division I-AA to I-A in 2000.

Virginia (5-1) last showed up in the Top 25 in the seventh week of the 2005 season.

UVa coach Al Groh and Huskies' counterpart Randy Edsall both shied away from the rankings issue in their public comments this week, but it could be the source of private motivation.

There are 11 remaining undefeated teams in Division I-A, and UConn is the only one that isn't ranked.

The pollsters may be waiting for the Huskies to beat a team of some distinction. UConn's schedule is No. 122 in the Sagarin Rankings published by USA Today.

On the other hand, two other unbeaten teams, No. 16 Hawaii and No. 20 Kansas, have schedules that are 170th and 138th, respectively.

Sagarin's computer thinks enough of the Huskies to have them 19th in its power rankings. Virginia is 41st, although the Cavaliers are a three-point favorite today.

"I don't have any concerns about [the Top 25]," said Edsall, who is 46-51 in nine seasons as UConn coach but has a 35-21 record over the last 56 games. "All I'm worried about is playing Virginia and trying to get better at things.

"However people see us, that's their opinion. That their prerogative. There's no sense worrying about things we can't control and this week, the only we can control is how we play against Virginia."

Virginia has been ranked several times in Groh's seven seasons as head coach, but all that came before the Cavaliers lost 10 times during a 16-game stretch that included a 23-3 setback at Wyoming in the opening game this season.

A sixth straight victory today would match the longest winning streak of the Groh era. The Cavaliers' last six-game winning streak followed an 0-2 start in 2002.

Connecticut and Virginia have had two common opponents -- Duke and Pittsburgh -- but the Huskies and Cavaliers have never met in football. UVa goes to Connecticut next year.

"We've wanted to schedule teams from the Atlantic Coast Conference," said Edsall, older brother of veteran college basketball official Duke Edsall, a resident of Botetourt County. "This really was part of the break-up of the Big East and the ACC. This was the home-and-home we got from that split-up and all of the legal ramifications from that."

The Huskies went 4-8 in 2006 and were a preseason choice for seventh in the Big East this year. Their only conference game to date is a 34-14 victory at Pittsburgh, where the Huskies were outgained 349-289 but benefitted from six Panther turnovers.

Connecticut has been energized by the addition of 6-foot-5, 226-pound quarterback Tyler Lorenzen, a first-team Junior College All-American last year at Palomar (Calif.) Community College. Lorenzen, from Fremont, Iowa, originally signed with Iowa State but went the junior-college route after being moved to another position.

"He's really been the catalyst for a lot of their success," Groh said. "Right from the start, he was quite spectacular in the Duke game, both running and throwing. They turned him loose in that game and they've never slowed down. He's shown us that he's really hard to knock down in the pocket.

"A lot of yardage has come when he's escaped someone who's appeared to have him sacked."

It will mark the second time in a Virginia game this season that both starting quarterbacks will be left-handers. Wyoming's Karsten Sweet is a southpaw.

"We'll have to get more right-hand hitters in the lineup," Groh said.

In addition to Duke and Pittsburgh, the Huskies have beaten Division I-AA Maine, Temple and Akron. Virginia's most impressive victory so far has been a home triumph over Georgia Tech, one of two teams the Cavaliers have beaten as underdogs, but the strength of UVa's schedule has been an issue with some pollsters.

Still, a victory today would enable Virginia to surpass its 2006 win total in just the seventh game of 2007.

"I really get the sense that this team understands, we're really only at the halfway mark right now," Groh said. "This could turn out to be a 5-7 season. It could turn out to be an 11-1 season. What we've accomplished so far isn't going to stand for much Saturday."