CHARLOTTESVILLE -- Paul London isn't sure what kind of vantage point his relatives will have for Virginia's football opener Saturday against Richmond, but he plans to be on the UVa sideline.

After all, when it comes to UVa football, he is the original London.

In fact, the youngest of four London siblings is associated with some of the more memorable and impressive accomplishments in UVa's football history.

He was a starting cornerback on the 1995 Cavaliers' team that handed Florida State its first ACC loss after 29 straight conference victories and London also was among a group of UVa defensive players who combined to intercept at least one pass in 39 consecutive games between 1993-1996, an NCAA record that has not been broken.

"I might have been the original London," Paul said, "but, as far as the most popular one or the most important one, my brother's gone way past me."

London is 12 years younger than his older brother, Mike, who makes his debut Saturday as the Cavaliers' head coach. Paul London was a four-year letter-winner at UVa from 1992-1995.

"After I graduated from college, Mike was coaching at Richmond," Paul said. "He was an assistant when coach [Jim] Reid was the head coach and I actually lived with him for a while. We still joke about it.

"Back then, we lived in a two-bedroom apartment and we had maybe four pieces of furniture between us. Where he's ascended to now, I'm very proud of him."

There is another London brother, Gary, who played football at East Carolina. Gary and Paul own a home health-care company in Hampton, where Paul also works as the finance manager at a car dealership.

"Having my brother be the head coach at the school where I played, it's given me the opportunity to go back more than I otherwise would," Paul said. "I've got a lot more UVa gear. I've got a closet full of UVa gear."

Some of that gear may have predated Mike London's introduction as the Cavaliers' head coach. He had two separate stints as a UVa assistant, from 2001-2004 and 2006-2007, at which point he was named head coach at Richmond.

Mike London earlier had been an assistant at both Richmond and William and Mary and was on the Tribe's sideline when William and Mary twice played Virginia during his brother's career.

"Because I played there, he wanted me to do well and us to do well," Paul said. "When he was at William and Mary, he wanted to beat us, of course, but he was always partial to UVa."

It was Paul who took a phone call from former UVa assistant Tom O'Brien when O'Brien was named head coach at Boston College following the 1996 season.

"He wanted to know if I thought my brother would be interested in going with him to BC," Paul said. "So, Mike always had a little connection to UVa, even when he was at BC and working with coach O'Brien and other guys who had been on the UVa staff."

The London clan celebrated the 50th wedding anniversary of parents Wilson and Mae last year in Hampton. Mike London was born in West Point, N.Y., while his father was serving in the military.

"My dad's retired former civil service; my mom's retired civil service," Paul said. "They were just people who were involved. They taught us to treat people with dignity and respect. Fortunately, I think that me, my two brothers and my sister turned out well.

"I was a good player, a reliable player but not a standout player. I like to kid my brothers that I had more interceptions than the two of them combined. I can say, now that my brother is the UVa head coach, I'm getting a little more attention for what I did as a player."

Mike London said he can't begin to count the number of tickets he will need for friends and family. Those duties have fallen to his wife, Regina, who also has responsibilities for picking his game-day wardrobe.

If one of his brothers has a sideline pass, Mike isn't sure how he got it, "but, if it's Paul," he said, "then I might have to stick him in a uniform and throw him in the game."