If the 2026 Virginia-NC State football game is indeed being moved to Brazil, the details haven’t been finalized as of today.
I submitted a Freedom of Information Act request to the University of Virginia last week to request a copy of the contract for the game, and the answer back today was:
“The University of Virginia has no records responsive to your request.”
Earlier in the year, I asked, through FOIA, and obtained, a copy of the contract for the 2025-2026 UVA-NC State football series, and found out, among the basics, that the first game would be played in Raleigh, the second in Charlottesville; that the games were to be considered non-conference games; and that there would be no “guarantee payments” between the two.
They can’t just move the game from Charlottesville to Brazil, make it a conference game, and, we’d have to assume, get guaranteed money from whoever would be putting on the game, without a contract.
Not saying it’s not a done deal in principle, because I don’t know that.
What I am saying is, it’s not on paper, not yet – if it ever will be.
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Chris Graham
