When Malik Washington decided to leave Northwestern, he wanted to go to a program where he could make an impact.

For 59 minutes and 20 something seconds, winless Virginia battled 9-point favorite NC State mano-a-mano on Friday night, and provided the country’s national-TV audience and a rain-soaked crowd in Scott Stadium to a Thriller-Diller of an ending.

For the third week in a row, Virginia found itself in a position to compete in the late stages, but three costly penalties in the final minute spoiled a fourth-quarter rally, as visiting NC State escaped with a 24-21 victory Friday night.

Scattershooting around the ACC, while wondering who is the better quarterback, NC State’s sixth-year Brennan Armstrong or Virginia’s first-year Anthony Colandrea.

Graduate student Mike Hollins is the first weekly nominee for the 2023 Capital One Orange Bowl-FWAA Courage Award.

Brennan Armstrong holds 15 Virginia football program records, but on Friday night he’ll be wearing Wolfpack red as the former Cavalier quarterback returns to Scott Stadium with his new team, NC State.

There will be an impact on Friday to the parking lots in the vicinity of Scott Stadium for football fans due to the home football game against NC State that evening.

Five former Virginia football stars and one former Fork Union Military Academy standout have been nominated for the 2024 class of the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

Virginia’s starting quarterback for Friday night’s ACC home opener against NC State remained clouded Tuesday afternoon, while one defensive player has undergone surgery and a wide receiver is leaving the program to transfer.

With each passing game, we learn a little bit more about Virginia’s football team — the good, the bad and the ugly.

After an 0-3 start and back-to-back, fourth-quarter collapses, where does Virginia’s football team go from here with ACC opponent NC State coming to town for a Friday night contest?

After coming up short on a long drive that could’ve tied the game early in the fourth quarter, Virginia fell apart over the final 15 minutes of a 42-14 loss at Maryland on Friday night.

Tony Elliott wasn’t happy with the way Virginia tackled during the final two drives that allowed JMU to come back from an 11-point, fourth-quarter deficit last week in a 36-35 Cavaliers defeat.

It has been a decade since Virginia has played Maryland in football, when the Terps became only the second school to leave the ACC in league history and bolted to the Big 10 conference.

Maryland boasts a physical defensive front and will certainly stack the box against Virginia to test quarterback Tony Muskett’s arm.

Unless something unusual happens over the next 48 hours, Tony Muskett will be Virginia’s starting quarterback when the Cavaliers travel to Maryland on Friday night.

Virginia will enter Friday night’s game at Maryland the healthiest it has been so far this season, including the likely return of starting quarterback Tony Muskett to the lineup.

Expectations for North Carolina are again sky-high as quarterback Drake Maye looks to be in a potential two-horse race for the Heisman trophy with Southern California’s Caleb Williams.

One of the most disappointing aspects of Virginia’s loss to JMU on Saturday was how the Cavaliers failed to respond after an hour-long break for a thunderstorm.

Freshman quarterback Anthony Colandrea was named ACC Rookie of the Week, announced by the league office on Monday.