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.

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.