For the past few weeks, I have spent some of my spare time trying to figure out what went wrong with Virginia football.

Perry Jones, a seldom-used true freshman, was anointed with his first four carries of the season against Boston College in Simpson’s absence.

A few inches less, and maybe Boston College quarterback Dave Shinskie doesn’t sneak into the end zone for the eventual winning touchdown.

Notes from Virginia-Boston College game

Quotes from Virginia-Boston College game

Everything seems to have come in threes.

Al Groh trotted off the field for the 110th time as Virginia’s head football coach on Saturday at Miami’s Land Shark Stadium.

I still consider a chance meeting in 1977 as part of my football education as a sportswriter.

Whether it leads to moving boxes or moving bowl tickets, that potentially tumultuous path starts today against No. 16 Miami (6-2, 3-2 ACC) at noon at Land Shark Stadium, the home of the NFL’s Miami Dolphins.

Scattershooting around the ACC, while finding the coaching turnover in the conference a bit surprising in such a short span ...

Yet a gold medal in the sport resides where Virginia’s Oday Aboushi sleeps every evening at the University of Virginia.

Quotes from Virginia coach Al Groh

On an evening when ghosts sauntered the streets for treats, Virginia was haunted in a matter of minutes.

Virginia’s victory train pulled out of the station with eight minutes to play Saturday night, but no one was aboard.

Over the Al Groh era at Virginia, passing statistics generally have been losing statistics.