Pack Pride is reporting that sources are indicating to the folks there that next season’s NC State-Virginia matchup will be played not in Charlottesville, but in Brazil.
The report from Pack Pride says the game will be an ACC game; at this stage, the UVA Athletics website still lists the game as a nonconference game, but then, the UVA site also still lists the game as being in Charlottesville.
The two programs met earlier this season in Raleigh in a nonconference game, won by State, 35-31, in Week 2.
I would imagine that UVA, moving a home game overseas, will be getting good money for that – not just travel money, but some additional reimbursement for losing the gate from a home game.
I’ll find out, eventually, via our friends in the FOIA office.
The Pack Pride report tells us that the game will be on Labor Day weekend, so, sometime between Thursday, Sept. 3 and Monday, Sept. 7.
The UVA Football schedule for 2026 already has a Saturday, Sept. 12 home date with Norfolk State, and then another neutral-site game, with West Virginia, on Saturday, Sept. 26, in Charlotte.
ICYMI
In between, there’s a Saturday, Sept. 19, home game with Delaware.
The ACC schedule has home games with Cal, Duke, North Carolina and Syracuse, dates to be determined.
Giving up the home game with State, and the game with WVU being down in Charlotte, we’d be looking at a six-game home schedule in 2026, with exactly zero marquee games.
This, a year after what, at this point, is shaping up to be a possible College Football Playoff season for UVA Football.
If this is true, it’s a massive f**k you to the UVA Football season-ticket fanbase.
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