Here’s our ACC Football Power Poll for the opening week of the season. Our voters — Jerry Ratcliffe and Scott Ratcliffe from JerryRatcliffe.Com and Chris Graham and Scott German from Augusta Free Press — ranked all 14 conference schools, with 14 points going to the highest-rated team and one point for the lowest-rated team:

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Can Perkins 2.0 Break Pitt’s Grip On Series?

Bryce Perkins was heaven-sent as far as Bronco Mendenhall was concerned. A quarterback that nobody on the East Coast had heard of arrived in Charlottesville from an obscure junior-college program out west, and on raw talent and sheer ability, broke the total offense record of Shawn Moore, Matt Schaub and other celebrated Virginia quarterbacks.

Tale Of The Tape: Virginia-Pitt

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The wait is almost over, Wahoo fans. The 2019 Virginia football season — the 130th in program history — kicks off at Heinz Field in Pittsburgh Saturday night, as the Cavaliers look to set the tone in a huge ACC Coastal Division clash.