Tony Elliott likes to share a story about when reality delivered him a cold smack right in the face after he graduated from college and joined the real world.

Tony Elliott and his coaching staff met with media on Thursday and the first-year Virginia head coach said his team is fairly healthy heading into next Wednesday’s first practice.

If Virginia’s football team needed any added motivation for this season, it came wrapped in a bow on Wednesday when the 2022 Preseason All-ACC Football Team was released by the conference office. 

Junior Chayce Chalmers is one of 115 players highlighted on the Wuerffel Trophy Watch List, College Football’s Premier Award for Community Service.

Virginia wide receiver Keytaon Thompson was listed on the 27-member 2022 Preseason All-ACC team as an all-purpose player.

Clemson is favored to claim the 2022 Atlantic Coast Conference football title for the seventh time in the last eight years, according to a preseason poll of 164 media voters.

Jerry Ratcliffe and Chris Graham report on last week’s ACC Football Kickoff, highlighting the latest on the ACC’s efforts to build on its revenue base to try to keep pace with the SEC and Big Ten, insights into UVA football news, and then Jerry provides updates on Virginia basketball recruiting.

For the second-straight season, Virginia linebacker Nick Jackson is included on the Dick Butkus Award Watch List.

Brennan Armstrong is obviously one of the top quarterbacks in the country, having led the FBS in passing and total yardage for much of last season even though he missed one game due to injury.

Virginia’s representatives at the annual ACC Football Kickoff showed up in style on Thursday, with eye-catching, personalized sneakers compliments of a former Wahoo basketball player’s wife.

Virginia wide receivers Keytaon Thompson and Dontayvion Wicks were each named to the Biletnikoff Award Watch list on Thursday. The award recognizes the college football season’s outstanding FBS receiver.

New Virginia football coach Tony Elliott has been on the job for half a year now, bracing for the upcoming August training camp.

ACC commissioner Jim Phillips addressed the College Football Playoffs, NIL, a possible new headquarters for the conference and other items Wednesday morning at the league’s annual football media days.

Since the ACC went to divisional play in 2005, Virginia hasn’t had much to cheer about coming out of the annual ACC Football Kickoff event.

Virginia quarterback Brennan Armstrong is one of 35 quarterbacks on the 2022 Davey O’Brien National Quarterback Award Presweason Watch List.

Virginia quarterback Brennan Armstrong and wide receiver Dontayvion Wicks have been named to the preseason Maxwell Award Watch List, the Maxwell Football Club announced Monday.

Notre Dame’s current deal, which pays the Irish $15 million a year, will expire in 2025. Should the new deal come through, it would end speculation that the Irish would consider jumping to the Big Ten.

The SMU Mustangs, a member of the American Athletic Conference, have also had conversations with the Big 12 and Pac-12.

Virginia single-game football tickets for the Cavaliers’ final four home football games of the 2022 season go on sale to the public Friday, July 15.

Everybody has a theory as to what the ACC is going to do in the wake of the move by the Big Ten to add USC and UCLA. Some of these theories are finding their way into reporting that the ACC and its member schools are actually following through.