CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — Virginia Coach Al Groh wore his voting sticker on his suit. Linebacker Clint Sintim had his on his sweat shirt. Both were at the voting booth Tuesday morning.

Groh arrived at 6 a.m., more than an hour after he normally wakes up. Sintim arrived a 5:45 a.m., almost four hours before he usually wakes up on Tuesdays, and still was behind about 30 people in line. Nose tackle Nate Collins sent in his New York absentee ballot. Running back Cedric Peerman drove the nearly 70 miles to Lynchburg, Va., to vote near his home town of Gladys.

"I got a chance to go in there and experience my first time voting and let my voice be heard," Sintim said. "If I could do it over again, I'd wait with a hundred people.

Notes: Backup running back Mikell Simpson will miss the remainder of the season with a fractured clavicle.

Simpson, a junior, rushed for 262 yards and three touchdowns this season. He rushed for 570 yards and eight touchdowns and caught a team-high 43 passes for 402 yards and two touchdowns last season.

Sophomore Raynard Horne and junior fullback Rashawn Jackson will fill Simpson's place Saturday against Wake Forest. Jackson's carries will likely come out of the tailback spot, which means redshirt freshman Curt Orshoski would fill in at fullback.

"He's got equal familiarity with each position," Groh said of Jackson, who was the starting running back in the Gator Bowl last season. "If we told him he was going to play one or the other on Saturday, he'd play both.