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.

Virginia’s depth chart for Saturday’s opener at Tennessee has been released, and while there’s not a lot of surprises, it reveals that the Cavaliers’ offensive line is on the mend.

John Rudzinski is a no-nonsense guy who loves the fundamentals of football and believes simple is better.

The Dukes are entering just their second year of FBS play and are looking to improve on an impressive debut year which saw them start the season 5-0 and even make an appearance in the AP Top 25.

Tennessee finds itself coming off of a highly successful 2022 season, and a trend of improvement is in mind for the Volunteers.

Tony Elliott and offensive coordinator Des Kitchings believe that if Virginia had to play a game tomorrow, the running game is in good shape … depending on the health of the Cavaliers’ offensive line.

For 16 years, Matt Ganyard was a modern adaptation of Ahab in pursuit of his elusive white whale, donning a Virginia football uniform.

Scattershooting around the ACC, while thinking the conference might go bi-coastal by the weekend.

Tony Muskett will be Virginia’s starting quarterback when the Cavaliers open the season at Tennessee.

The good news about Virginia’s top pass rusher, Chico Bennett Jr., is that he’s up and walking without a crutch at the Cavaliers training camp.

The ACC might not be expanding to California, but Virginia football sure is with the addition of tight end Trevor Ladd of Encinites, Ca.

Scattershooting around the ACC, while wondering whose bright idea was it to give Notre Dame full voting privileges without the Irish committing to a full membership in the league

When Tony Elliott told media attending his Monday post-practice chat that the biggest takeaway from Saturday’s team scrimmage was that Anthony Colandrea was “pushing” Tony Muskett for the starting quarterback job, it was a bit surprising.

If you’re a Virginia football fan, coming off a 3-7 season and losing some key personnel from a team that grossly underachieved, you’re probably looking for some positive signs heading into the upcoming campaign.

One of Virginia’s top defensive players, defensive end Chico Bennett Jr., was missing from drills Monday after suffering a freak injury that has Tony Elliott holding his breath.

ACC expansion talks with Stanford, Cal and SMU apparently collapsed Wednesday afternoon when the league failed to gather enough support to move forward.