Scattershooting around the new ACC, while wondering if the ACC has awakened a sleeping giant.

While JMU and Virginia will both be preparing to face two quarterbacks in this Saturday’s meeting at Scott Stadium, Cavaliers coach Tony Elliott won’t have to play as much of a guessing game.

In head coach Jeff Hafley’s third year, the team took a huge step back, allowing the second-most points per game in the ACC (30.3) while scoring the third-lowest points per game in the league (17.8) — practically nothing to write home about.

If Tony Muskett can’t play Saturday, Virginia coach Tony Elliott will call on true freshman backup Anthony Colandrea from St. Petersburg, Fla.

Virginia coach Tony Elliott said that starting quarterback Tony Muskett’s condition is “day-to-day,” and it will be a “game-time decision” if Muskett plays against JMU in Saturday’s home opener at Scott Stadium.

Virginia Athletics Director Carla Williams opened Tuesday’s press conference with a message for the Charlottesville community regarding this weekend’s scheduled events to honor the lives of Devin Chandler, Lavel Davis Jr. and D’Sean Perry

The “UVA Strong” ceremony will most certainly be an emotional event, followed by a game between programs that haven’t met since the early 1980s.

Virginia athletics announced details Monday for the “UVA Strong” football game vs. James Madison. The contest is set for Saturday at noon at Scott Stadium.

The Virginia athletics department has announced several gameday enhancements at Scott Stadium, including a brand-new LED lighting system.

No one gave rebuilding Virginia a snowball’s chance of threatening powerful Tennessee, the nation’s 12th-ranked team, in Saturday’s season-opener.

Virginia’s quarterback situation remained murky after the Cavaliers’ 49-13 loss against No. 12 Tennessee on Saturday, with the status of injured starter Tony Muskett unknown.

While it turned out to be a lopsided, 49-13 loss (as many expected), the most important thing was that the Virginia football team took the field Saturday — a huge step for all involved in the process of turning tragedy to triumph.

Virginia’s uniforms will feature special patches to commemorate their fallen teammates, featuring their numbers: 1, 15, 41. It is part of UVA turning tragedy into triumph.

After weeks of debates and meetings, ACC presidents voted Friday morning to add Stanford, California and SMU into the conference, making it an 18-team league beginning in 2024-25.

One of the intriguing questions about Virginia football since spring has been about the Cavaliers’ new quarterback, Tony Muskett.

The second home game of the year will again have a big emotional component to it, as NC State and former Virginia quarterback Brennan Armstrong will face off against the Cavaliers in a Friday night game.

Maryland hasn’t played Virginia since the Terps bolted the ACC for the Big 10 after the 2013 season. Up until then, the border rivals had met 78 times and every year since 1957.

Tony Elliott knows what to expect this weekend out in Nashville when his Virginia football team takes on a highly-favored Tennessee team. Elliott likes to call it “Big Boy Football.”

During his decade as Clemson’s offensive coordinator, Tony Elliott coached in some of the biggest games in the most electric atmospheres in college football.

Tennessee is a 26-point favorite in its opener with Virginia on Saturday in Nashville, but Vols coach Josh Heupel showed a lot of respect for the Cavaliers in his press conference this week.