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John Crotty looked a little out of place strolling around Charlottesville on a miserable weather day Monday, in his bright Orange Bowl blazer and Miami-tanned face a bit out of the norm.
After both No. 5-ranked Virginia and No. 7-ranked North Carolina laid an egg in the ACC/Big Ten Challenge last Wednesday night, both fan bases were left shaking their collective heads.
Virginia welcomes longtime ACC rival North Carolina to John Paul Jones Arena this afternoon at 4 p.m. for another early-season conference battle, as the Cavaliers try to avoid their first losing streak in almost three years.
With Clemson winning its 28th consecutive game against the rest of the ACC, just how big is the gap between the Tigers and everyone else?
Virginia got its first taste of big-boy football on Saturday night against defending national champion Clemson in the ACC Championship game. It wasn’t pretty.
Clemson put up 619 yards of total offense and cruised to its fifth consecutive ACC Championship Saturday night with a record-setting, 62-17 victory over No. 22 Virginia at Bank of America Stadium in Charlotte.
When Clemson coach Dabo Swinney began to scout ACC Championship opponent Virginia on film, the first thing that jumped out at him was Bryce Perkins.
Former UVA quarterback Don Majkowski, who went on to play 10 seasons in the NFL, is Hootie’s guest this week on The Jerry Ratcliffe Show.
Coastal Division champion Virginia goes up against Atlantic Division winner and defending national champion Clemson in tonight’s ACC Championship Game from Bank of America Stadium in Charlotte (7:30, ABC).
On the eve of Virginia’s first appearance in the ACC Football Championship game, Bronco Mendenhall reflected upon his arrival in Charlottesville.
If anyone has a true appreciation of Mendenhall’s accomplishment in such a short time span, it’s a fellow coach, as in Clemson’s Dabo Swinney, whom we asked Friday to comment on a job well done.
Purdue may have accomplished more than avenging last March’s overtime Elite Eight loss to Virginia on Wednesday night.
Bronco Mendenhall decided after the win over the Tar Heels that he would grow a “playoff beard,” and keep it as long as UVA kept winning.
Hootie is joined by Blue Ridge Bank President Gary Shook to discuss Virginia football’s memorable run to the program’s first ACC Coastal Division championship.
In West Lafayette, Ind., No. 5 Virginia dropped its first game since March Wednesday night, as Purdue rolled to a 69-40 home victory over the Cavaliers in the ACC/Big Ten Challenge.
There is little question that No. 3 Clemson is going to try and “boat race” Virginia in Saturday’s ACC Championship game. That’s just who the Tigers are.
Having clinched its first ACC Coastal Division championship and ending a 15-year losing streak to state rival Virginia Tech, the recent success of UVA football is already making an impact on the Cavaliers’ recruiting.
When Virginia went up against Purdue for a spot in the Final Four last season, the Cavaliers may as well have been playing in West Lafayette, Indiana, where the Boilermakers call home.
Most any other year, Virginia’s Bryce Perkins would likely be an easy choice for first-team All-ACC quarterback.
The last time Virginia played Clemson, Bronco Mendenhall was almost three years away from making the move from Provo to Charlottesville.