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

Duke 28, Virginia 17

That matchup will be on clear display today as the Blue Devils (4-3, 2-1) and Cavaliers (3-4, 2-1) battle each other to stay in the ACC Coastal Division title race.

Defensive backs dream about games like Virginia’s matchup today against visiting Duke. Well, they dream about them as long as things go their way.

Regardless, Virginia (3-4, 2-1 ACC) and Duke (4-3, 2-1), the two teams from the conference to miss the postseason last year, are near mirror images on paper.

Thaddeus Lewis will walk into Scott Stadium on Saturday with a heavy heart.

Scattershooting around the ACC, while noting that Virginia’s coaching staff wasn’t the only one fuming after last weekend’s shoddy performance ...

Thanks to 28 second-half points, Duke pulled away to blast Virginia, 31-3, at Wallace Wade Stadium, giving the Blue Devils their first ACC win since Nov. 13, 2004 and their most lopsided league win in 18 years.
UVa vs. Duke forum thread.

Virginia’s football season threatened to burst at the seams on Saturday when the Cavaliers committed the ACC’s version of the unforgivable sin. They lost to Duke.

Duke, having lost 25 straight ACC games, enters its season-opening league contest as a seven-point favorite against the visiting Cavaliers (1-2, 0-0 ACC), marking just the ninth time since 1999 that the Blue Devils were favored in a game.

There seems to be an attempt on Tobacco Road to rekindle the football rivalry between Virginia and Duke, two desperate teams that clash today at high noon in Durham.

Three years after being fired as the head football coach at Ole Miss, David Cutcliffe must have wondered if he’d ever get another chance.

Thus far this season, nothing has appeared to be a problem for Lewis. The junior quarterback leads the ACC in passing, averaging 238 yards per game through the air.

John Swofford said Tuesday morning that if some think the ACC has a post-expansion image problem, he doesn’t share that opinion.