“We have to carry the burden of what hasn't been done in the past and we’ve got an opportunity to change the future,” Elliott said.
“One word,” Harris said. “Exciting.”
“We need to perform as if we’re playing a national championship every single game,” Neal said. "That way we’ll be at our best when our best is required.”
“We try to do everything we can to honor those guys,” Jackson said.
“It’s a monumental day for Virginia and Virginia football.”
“We played with fire, right? And we got burned,” Coach Tony Elliott said.
But as he hit the ground, Morris took head-level hits from two Wake Forest defenders. The quarterback did not immediately get up.
Like everything else about Virginia football in 2025, though, this year is different.
"If you look at where we were last year, this time, it's almost impossible to see how we could have gotten so far, so fast.”
“I think that's one of the highest honors you can receive in the game of football,” Elliott said.
Virginia remains undefeated in conference play at the end of its cross-country trip and rises to 8-1 — the program’s highest win total in six years.
It has been six years since Virginia’s football, men’s soccer, women’s soccer and field hockey programs have been ranked simultaneously.
One of Virginia's best offensive linemen is a renaissance man.
“As the season goes on, those inches are much more difficult to capture.”
Beneath the eerie glow of the Scott Stadium lights and within the hallowed walls of John Paul Jones arena, some nights were better left forgotten.
