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.
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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.

Thrust into the starting role a couple of weeks ago after regular starter Peter Lalich was booted from the program, Verica was roughed up by Duke’s aggressive defense in a 31-3 loss at Wallace Wade Stadium.

Virginia coach Al Groh said he did not want to risk playing Peerman, who was listed with a leg injury on the team’s injury report on Thursday.

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.

In Al Groh’s eyes it was essentially a disease and an unwholesome condition.

Scattershooting around the ACC, while wishing the best of luck to Pete Lalich, who has transferred to Oregon State ...

A year ago, Marc Verica was buried on Virginia’s quarterback depth chart. He was fourth behind then-starter Jameel Sewell, true freshman backup Peter Lalich and senior Scott Deke.

The last time Virginia lost on the road to Duke in 1994, Kevin Ogletree was a 7-year-old elementary school student living in Queens, N.Y.

Virginia, off to an ugly start in its 2008 campaign, can take solace in the fact that its offense is not ranked last in the nation, albeit one spot from the bottom rung.

On Monday and Tuesday, Bivens took batting practice with the Virginia baseball program, which likely signaled the end of his injury-plagued time with the Cavaliers’ football team, Roberts confirmed.

Virginia quarterback Marc Verica said his team needed to return to one place: the drawing board.

With Brown taking center stage, the Huskies gained 506 yards of total offense, blasting Virginia, 45-10, in the Cavaliers’ first road game.
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After all of the hullabaloo, it really didn’t matter who suited up at quarterback for Virginia on Saturday night against Connecticut. Johnny Unitas could have been taking the snaps and the Cavaliers would have still been under whelming.