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.

With starting quarterback Tony Muskett still nursing a shoulder injury from last week’s loss at Tennessee, the Virginia offensive coaches braced themselves for a wild ride with true freshman Anthony Colandrea.

Football officially returned to Scott Stadium on Saturday, complete with a touching pregame ceremony, a long weather delay, and best of all, an exciting, back-and-forth contest that came down to the final minute.

The key to Virginia’s home opener against 6-point favorite JMU will be which team can control the line of scrimmage on both sides of the football.

Dr. Ray Perkins, who played for George Welsh’s teams of the mid-1980s, will be the first honoree of the 2023 season in the “Hoos Making a Difference” program.

On the eve of Virginia’s first home football game since the tragic murders of three players last November, the wheels of justice turned again Friday.

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.