Getting you ready for the Tech-UVA annual football series game

It’s not a rivalry, any more than there’s a rivalry between bugs and a bug zapper, but anyway, this week is UVA-Virginia Tech football week.

It’s my job to get you ready for the annual beatdown, so, here goes.

• Virginia Tech may have to go with freshman Pop Watson at QB for UVA game The folks in Vegas aren’t fooled by the strong possibility that Virginia Tech is going to have to go with its third-string freshman quarterback.
• UVA Football Injury Report: Vaughn needs to step up at RB, good news with Trell Harris UVA Football lost tailbacks Xavier Brown (broken collarbone) and Kobe Pace (knee) during last week’s 33-7 loss to College Football Playoff contender SMU.
• UVA Football: Can we stop calling UVA-Virginia Tech a ‘rivalry,’ please? “It’s two in-state schools. It’s houses divided. It’s bragging rights,” UVA coach Tony Elliott said on Tuesday, musing on the topic of, ahem, rivalry week, such as the annual UVA-Virginia Tech football series can be considered a “rivalry.”
• UVA Football: The suits running the show are perfectly happy with things as they are There even is a UVA Football program because the University of Virginia, like every other college and university in America that plays football, has made a Faustian bargain. We, like the others, let kids truck each other into head injuries and various other upper- and lower-body injuries and maladies involving broken bones and ligament and cartilage tears and bruised spleens and the like that will affect them the rest of their lives – the whole point to us doing that being, because it gets other kids to decide to apply for admission.