Rivalry Week is upon us, and this week we welcome a trio of celebrities to our weekly Pigskin Picks panel.

Ourlads Football Network ACC analyst Jerry Ratcliffe and show host Greg DePalma break down the big Virginia at Virginia Tech game, then talk about every football program in the ACC and this week’s games, then get the REAL inside scoop on what’s happened to North Carolina and Coach Larry Fedora’s future in our interview with Andrew Jones, publisher of Tar Heels Illustrated.

Only minutes after Virginia had dropped a heartbreaking, 30-27 overtime loss at Georgia Tech last Saturday night, Dylan Thompson limped into the make-do interview area in Bobby Dodd Stadium and faced media that covers the team for the very first time.

Virginia has had Nov. 23 circled on its football calendar for a long, long time. Bronco Mendenhall hasn’t exactly discouraged the Cavaliers from talking about ending the program’s long, frustrating losing streak to state rival Virginia Tech.

Five things we learned about Virginia in its 30-27 overtime loss at Georgia Tech.

The bizarre turn of events late in the first quarter of Georgia Tech’s 30-27, overtime win over Virginia on Saturday, would have broken most teams. There wouldn’t have been a need for an overtime.

It all came down to overtime in a thrilling ACC finish at Bobby Dodd Stadium in Atlanta Saturday, as Georgia Tech squeezed out a 30-27 win over Virginia when UVA kicker Brian Delaney missed wide left on a 35-yard field-goal attempt that would have kept the game going.

If you’re wondering why Jerry wasn’t covering the UVA-Coppin State game Friday night, he was speaking at a tribute to former UVA coach Dick Bestwick at the College Football Hall of Fame in Atlanta.

Georgia Tech enters Saturday’s Coastal Division matchup against Virginia with the nation’s top rush defense, and it’s really not even close.

After Clemson, how does the rest of the ACC stack up?

Scattershooting around the ACC, while noting there will be some scoreboard watching going on around high noon Saturday …

ACC analyst Jerry Ratcliffe and host Greg DePalma preview Virginia’s game at Georgia Tech with Georgia Tech beat writer Ken Sugiura of the Atlanta Journal Constitution and discuss Bobby Petrino with Eric Crawford, an award winning journalist from WDBR in Louisville, and much more.

This week, we welcome two-time US Open winner Curtis Strange and Fox-910 sports radio host Wes McElroy to our Pigskin Picks panel.

Virginia’s young defensive line is going to face football’s ultimate test this weekend when they face Georgia Tech’s option offense at Bobby Dodd Stadium in Atlanta.

For the past week, lots of folks have wondered aloud why would Virginia want to win the Coastal Division? Doesn’t that mean the Cavaliers would have to face No. 2 Clemson?

Virginia was in the middle of an unexpected shootout with upset-minded Liberty midway through the third quarter of Saturday night’s game at frosty Scott Stadium.

When Virginia’s Joe Reed registered solid kickoff returns of 37, 31 and 35 yards in the first half of Saturday’s game against Liberty, you had a feeling that the 6-foot-3 junior from Charlotte Court House just might break one before the end of the day.

Photos by John Markon from Virginia’s 45-24 win over Liberty.

Junior wideout Joe Reed scored three touchdowns in his final game at Scott Stadium Saturday, as Virginia won its seventh game of the season for the first time since 2011 with a 45-24 victory over Liberty, the first meeting between the in-state opponents.

How does the ACC stack up heading into Week 11?