Virginia–Virginia Tech rivalry#Commonwealth Clash
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| School|| University of Virginia || Virginia Tech | ||
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| style="background: #e3e3e3;"| Established | style="background: #ddeeff;"| 1819 | style="background: #ffe0d8;" | 1872 |
| Location | Charlottesville | Blacksburg |
| style="background: #e3e3e3;"| Conference | style="background: #ddeeff;" | ACC | style="background: #ffe0d8;" | ACC |
| Students (2019) | 24,360 | 33,403 |
| style="background: #e3e3e3;"| School Colors | style="background: #ddeeff;" | Orange & Blue | style="background: #ffe0d8;" | Orange & Maroon |
| Nickname | Cavaliers | Hokies |
| style="background: #e3e3e3;"| Varsity Teams | style="background: #ddeeff;"| 27 | style="background: #ffe0d8;"| 19 |
| NCAA Championships | 35 | 0 |
| style="background: #e3e3e3;"|Challenge & Clash Wins | style="background: #ddeeff;"| 6 | style="background: #ffe0d8;" | 3 |
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{{for|the football rivalry specifically|Virginia–Virginia Tech football rivalry}}
{{for|the men's basketball rivalry specifically|Virginia–Virginia Tech men's basketball rivalry}}
The Virginia–Virginia Tech rivalry is an American college rivalry that exists between the Virginia Cavaliers sports teams of the University of Virginia (called Virginia in sports media and abbreviated UVA) and the Virginia Tech Hokies sports teams of Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (called Virginia Tech and abbreviated VT). Both athletics programs are members of the Atlantic Coast Conference. In sports that have divisional play, such as college baseball and college football, they both compete in the Coastal division of the conference. Despite different or no conference affiliations from 1937 to 2004, Virginia and Virginia Tech always maintained athletic ties and were annual rivals in many sports.
From 2005 to 2007 and again since 2014, the Cavaliers and Hokies have participated in a program-wide rivalry contest (Commonwealth Clash) for an annual trophy, with points awarded to the winner of each matchup in each common sport.
All-time and ACC series results
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| Sport | All-time series recordSources: hokiesports.com and virginiasports.com | ACC series record | Last result | Next meeting |
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| style="background: #f6f6f6;" | Baseball
| style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Cavaliers|border=0|color=white}}" | UVA leads 111–92 | style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Cavaliers|border=0|color=white}}" | UVA leads 38–17 | style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Cavaliers|border=0|color=white}}" | UVA won 10-9 on May 18, 2024 | style="background: #f6f6f6;" | Spring 2025 | ||||
| style="background: #f6f6f6;" |Men's Basketball (Rivalry)
| style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Cavaliers|border=0|color=white}}" | UVA leads 99–61 | style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Cavaliers|border=0|color=white}}" | UVA leads 26–16 | style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Cavaliers|border=0|color=white}}" | UVA won 73–70 on February 15, 2025 | style="background: #f6f6f6;" | February 15, 2025 | ||||
| style="background: #f6f6f6;" |Women's Basketball
| style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Cavaliers|border=0|color=white}}" | UVA leads 53–18 | style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Cavaliers|border=0|color=white}}" | UVA leads 28–12 | style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Tech Hokies|border=0|color=white}}"| VT won 87–62 on February 9, 2025 | style="background: #f6f6f6;" | TBD | ||||
| style="background: #f6f6f6;" |Football (Rivalry)
| style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Tech Hokies|border=0|color=white}}" | VT leads 62–38–5 | style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Tech Hokies|border=0|color=white}}" | VT leads 19–1 | style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Tech Hokies|border=0|color=white}}" | VT won 37–17 on November 30, 2024 | style="background: #f6f6f6;" | Fall 2025 | ||||
| style="background: #f6f6f6;" |Women's Lacrosse
| style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Cavaliers|border=0|color=white}}" | UVA leads 27–3 | style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Cavaliers|border=0|color=white}}" | UVA leads 17–3 | style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Cavaliers|border=0|color=white}}" | UVA won 14–12 on April 17, 2024 | style="background: #f6f6f6;" | Spring 2025 | ||||
| style="background: #f6f6f6;" |Men's Soccer
| style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Cavaliers|border=0|color=white}}" | UVA leads 44–6–6 | style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Cavaliers|border=0|color=white}}" | UVA leads 13–6–6 | style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Cavaliers|border=0|color=white}}" | UVA won 2–1 on October 4, 2024 | style="background: #f6f6f6;" | Fall 2025 | ||||
| style="background: #f6f6f6;" |Women's Soccer
| style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Cavaliers|border=0|color=white}}" | UVA leads 20–4–2 | style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Cavaliers|border=0|color=white}}" | UVA leads 13–3–1 | style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Cavaliers|border=0|color=white}}" | UVA won 1–0 on October 31, 2024 | style="background: #f6f6f6;" | Fall 2025 | ||||
| style="background: #f6f6f6;" |Softball
| style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Tech Hokies|border=0|color=white}}" | VT leads 54–24 | style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Tech Hokies|border=0|color=white}}" | VT leads 41–14 | style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Tech Hokies|border=0|color=white}}" | VT won 6–1 on April 23, 2024 | style="background: #f6f6f6;" | Spring 2025 | ||||
| style="background: #f6f6f6;" |Men's Swimming/Diving
| style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Cavaliers|border=0|color=white}}" | UVA leads 29–8 | style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Cavaliers|border=0|color=white}}" | UVA leads 11–8 | style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Tech Hokies|border=0|color=white}}" | VT won 191–108 on January 13, 2024 | style="background: #f6f6f6;" | Winter 2025 | ||||
| style="background: #f6f6f6;" |Women's Swimming/Diving
| style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Cavaliers|border=0|color=white}}" | UVA leads 35–1 | style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Cavaliers|border=0|color=white}}" | UVA leads 19–0 | style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Cavaliers|border=0|color=white}}" | UVA won 209–91 on January 13, 2024 | style="background: #f6f6f6;" | Winter 2025 | ||||
| style="background: #f6f6f6;" |Men's Tennis
| style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Cavaliers|border=0|color=white}}" | UVA leads 60–9 | style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Cavaliers|border=0|color=white}}" | UVA leads 18–1 | style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Cavaliers|border=0|color=white}}" | UVA won 6–1 on April 3, 2024 | style="background: #f6f6f6;" | Spring 2025 | ||||
| style="background: #f6f6f6;" |Women's Tennis
| style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Cavaliers|border=0|color=white}}" | UVA leads 43–5 | style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Cavaliers|border=0|color=white}}" | UVA leads 19–0 | style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Cavaliers|border=0|color=white}}" | UVA won 6–1 on March 14, 2024 | style="background: #f6f6f6;" | Spring 2025 | ||||
| style="background: #f6f6f6;" |Volleyball
| style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Cavaliers|border=0|color=white}}" | UVA leads 41–40 | style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Tech Hokies|border=0|color=white}}" | VT leads 20–18 | style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Cavaliers|border=0|color=white}}" | UVA won 3–0 on November 25, 2023 | style="background: #f6f6f6;" | Fall 2024 | ||||
| style="background: #f6f6f6;" |Wrestling
| style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Tech Hokies|border=0|color=white}}" | VT leads 48–27 | style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Tech Hokies|border=0|color=white}}" | VT leads 17–3 | style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Tech Hokies|border=0|color=white}}" | VT won 27–9 on February 3, 2024 | style="background: #f6f6f6;" | Spring Winter 2025 | ||||
| style="background: #f6f6f6;" | TOTALS
| style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Cavaliers|border=0|color=white}}" | UVA leads 613–379–14 | style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Cavaliers|border=0|color=white}}" | UVA leads 235–159–8 | style="background: white; color:#ff7003" colspan="2" | |
Series led and games won by Virginia are shaded ██. Series led and games won by Virginia Tech shaded ██.
Head-to-head games/matches only
Conference, Sponsorship, Relative Popularity and Success
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UVA has been a member of the ACC since 1953, while Virginia Tech was invited in 2004. Both athletics programs are also sponsored by Nike. The Cavaliers are signed with Nike through 2025, at $3.5 million per year. The Hokies are also signed with Nike through 2022, at $1.98 million per year.[http://www.dailyprogress.com/cavalierinsider/virginia-signs-lucrative-extension-with-nike/article_2e35d66a-41e7-11e5-8778-d7c82ebaabd0.html UVA signs lucrative Nike deal], accessed August 13, 2015 Virginia had the third-highest ACC total athletics revenue, with $91 million, in 2014–2015.[http://www.fredericksburg.com/sports/college/virginia_tech/parsing-virginia-tech-s-athletic-department-revenue-figures-plus-more/article_6e3cd1d5-ec4e-5de2-9a88-4605ab75ba74.html Parsing Virginia Tech's athletic department revenue figures], accessed April 18, 2016 Virginia Tech was sixth out of the 15 programs, drawing $80 million.
UVA polled as the most popular college sports program in their home state as of 2015 — with Virginians choosing the Cavaliers over the Hokies by a six-point margin of 34% to 28% — despite UVA having fewer students and a smaller alumni base than Virginia Tech.[http://bloximages.newyork1.vip.townnews.com/roanoke.com/content/tncms/assets/v3/editorial/7/12/712bdf7a-98ec-5ab8-a08c-2defb63ad99b/55b111de998ca.pdf.pdf Public Policy Poll on Va. topics], released July 21, 2015; accessed July 25, 2015 The first and only Fan Vote of the Commonwealth Clash, also in 2015, bore out that result as there were more Cavalier votes than Hokie votes in the final tally which allowed UVA to take the point. The overall Virginia Cavaliers program polled more popular than all NFL and MLB teams (NBA teams were not polled) while only the former Washington Redskins tied the overall Virginia Tech program at 28% support.
The Cavaliers have twice won the prestigious Capital One Cup for fielding the top overall men's athletics program in the nation, in 2015 and 2019, and UVA places first in the ACC for all-time Men's NCAA Championships with 20. Virginia is in second place in the conference for NCAA Championships in women's sports with 10. UVA's recent NCAA Championships include winning the 2019 NCAA tournament championship in men's basketball, winning the 2015 College World Series in baseball, and winning the 2014 College Cup in men's soccer. On the other side of the rivalry, Virginia Tech is one of two ACC programs (the other is Pittsburgh) to have not yet earned its first NCAA Championship in a team sport.
Virginia fields more overall teams than Virginia Tech. As a result, certain highly successful UVA teams like the eight-time NCAA Champion Virginia Cavaliers men's lacrosse team and two-time NCAA Champion Virginia women's rowing team do not compete against Virginia Tech and so do not consider the Hokies their rivals. Virginia Tech briefly sponsored men's lacrosse before folding the program after the 1986 season; Virginia leads the all-time series in men's lacrosse 10-0.{{cite web |title=Virginia Men's Lacrosse: Series Results |url=https://static.virginiasports.com/pdfs/m-lax/2024/2024_MLAX_Series_Results.pdf?_ga=2.117474570.2085795337.1705599988-1791134450.1667412785 |publisher=University of Virginia |access-date=August 28, 2024}}
Commonwealth Challenge and Clash
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|valign="top"| 2005–06
2006–07
2014–15
2015–16
2018–19
2022–23
2023–24
2024–25
|valign="top"| 2016–17
2017–18
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Newly in the same conference, the two schools agreed to face off in the Commonwealth Challenge{{Cite web |url=http://www.swimmingworldmagazine.com/lane9/news/9969.asp?q=Virginia-and-Virginia-Tech-to-Tangle-in-Commonwealth-Challenge |title=Archived copy |access-date=December 4, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130728121412/http://www.swimmingworldmagazine.com/lane9/news/9969.asp?q=Virginia-and-Virginia-Tech-to-Tangle-in-Commonwealth-Challenge |archive-date=July 28, 2013 |url-status=dead }} across all sports in 2005. The Challenge continued through 2007, with the Cavaliers winning both years of the competition. Future sponsorship was not sought out of respect for the Virginia Tech massacre. Virginia athletic director Craig Littlepage stated at the time that "now is not the time to be talking about bragging rights."{{cite news|url=http://www.roanoke.com/sports/college/wb/151581|title=Bragging rights taken off the table|last=Doughty|first=Doug|date=February 21, 2008|newspaper=The Roanoke Times}}
In August 2014, the two schools announced a renewed rivalry competition with a new name and new scoring system between the two schools, named the Commonwealth Clash. This more recent competition was sponsored by Virginia 529 College Savings Plan.{{cite web |title= Commonwealth Clash Adds to Historic Rivalry Between UVa and Virginia Tech |url= http://www.virginiasports.com/genrel/082514aaa.html |website= The University of Virginia Official Athletic Site |date= August 25, 2014 |access-date= August 26, 2014}} At the end of the 2018–19 academic year, UVA led the Clash series 3–2 and total points 60–47. This was then declared the final year of the original Clash on its official website.{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20141014152556/http://www.thecommonwealthclash.com/index.php The Commonwealth Clash]}}, "The 2018–19 athletic season was the final year of the Commonwealth Clash Competition, presented by Virginia 529.", accessed January 19, 2021
Each meeting or yearly series in a sport is worth a single point in the Clash. In basketball and volleyball, where the two schools meet twice per season, each individual game is worth one-half point. In baseball and softball, the point is awarded to the winner of the series, with a split of a two-game series earning one-half point each. A tied game in soccer also awards one-half point each. In sports where teams participate in meets or tournaments instead of head-to-head – cross country, indoor and outdoor track and field, and men's and women's golf – the school that finishes higher in the ACC championship earns the point. Swimming and diving also falls under this category, even though the two schools schedule an annual meet against each other; this meeting does not count toward the Clash.{{cite web |title=Commonwealth Clash Point System |url=https://www.thecommonwealthclash.com/point-system/index.php |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151006203847/http://www.thecommonwealthclash.com/point-system/index.php |url-status=usurped |archive-date=October 6, 2015 |website=Commonwealth Clash}}
There are 22 points, requiring 11½ to clinch the Clash. If there is a tie, the first tiebreaker is the greater number of ACC championships in common sports, followed by the greater number of honor roll athletes in common sports. The tiebreakers have been invoked only once, in 2016–17; Virginia Tech won the tiebreaker in that Clash by capturing four ACC championships to Virginia's one.
The 2019–20 Clash trophy was not awarded due to the COVID-19 pandemic. At the time competition was suspended, Virginia led 7{{frac|1|2}}–6{{frac|1|2}}, with eight points remaining to be contested and nearly all of them in sports which had often favored Virginia in the previous years of the Clash.{{cite news |last1=Conlin |first1=Bennett |title=Commonwealth Clash competition between Virginia and Virginia Tech canceled for 2019-20 season |url=https://www.dailyprogress.com/sports/commonwealth-clash-competition-between-virginia-and-virginia-tech-canceled-for-2019-20-season/article_4521da22-7fb8-5f34-9846-7a6df68a62fe.html |work=The Daily Progress |language=en}}
The Clash made its return after a three-year absence for the 2021–22 academic year, with Smithfield Foods taking over sponsorship duties.{{cite web |title=Smithfield to present Commonwealth Clash |url=https://www.smithfieldtimes.com/2021/08/31/smithfield-to-present-commonwealth-clash/ |website=The Smithfield Times|date=August 31, 2021|access-date=June 9, 2022}} After winning the baseball series, 2–1, the Hokies would clinch the Clash for the year, eventually winning, 12{{frac|1|2}}–8{{frac|1|2}}.{{cite web |title=Virginia Tech wins Commonwealth Clash for first time since 2018 |url=https://hokiesports.com/news/2022/5/1/general-virginia-tech-wins-commonwealth-clash-for-first-time-since-2018.aspx |website=Virginia Tech Athletics|date=May 1, 2022|access-date=June 9, 2022}}
In 2022–23, the Cavaliers took home the Clash after posting a better finish than Tech at the ACC Championships in men's golf, eventually winning, 12–9.{{cite web |title=Virginia Clinches 2022-23 Smithfield Commonwealth Clash |url=https://virginiasports.com/news/2023/04/23/virginia-clinches-2022-23-smithfield-commonwealth-clash/ |website=Virginia Sports|date=April 23, 2023|access-date=June 17, 2023}} The Cavaliers clinched the trophy in the same fashion in 2023–24, while their women's golf team scored the clinching point in 2024–25.{{cite news |title=Virginia Clinches 2023-24 Smithfield Commonwealth Clash |url=https://virginiasports.com/news/2024/04/21/virginia-clinches-2023-24-smithfield-commonwealth-clash/ |work=Virginia Cavaliers Official Athletic Site |date=21 April 2024}}{{cite news |title=Virginia Advances to Match Play, Clinches Smithfield Commonwealth Clash |url=https://virginiasports.com/news/2025/04/17/virginia-advances-to-match-play-behind-sambachs-runner-up-finish/ |work=Virginia Cavaliers Official Athletic Site |date=17 April 2025}}
=Yearly records=
==''Commonwealth Clash''==
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| style="background: #f6f6f6;" | Yearly Result Overall Clash series | style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Cavaliers|border=0|color=white}}" | UVA 15–7 | style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Cavaliers|border=0|color=white}}" | UVA 14–7 | style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Tech Hokies|border=0|color=white}}" | Tied 11–11 | style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Tech Hokies|border=0|color=white}}" | VT 12½–8½ | style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Cavaliers|border=0|color=white}}" | UVA 12½–9½ | style="background: #cccccc; color:#222" | UVA 7{{frac|1|2}}–6{{frac|1|2}} | style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Tech Hokies|border=0|color=white}}" | VT 12½–8½ | style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Cavaliers|border=0|color=white}}" | UVA 12–9 | style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Cavaliers|border=0|color=white}}" | UVA 15–7 | style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Cavaliers|border=0|color=white}}" | UVA 15–7 | |
| Sport | 2014–15{{cite web |title=2014–2015 Schedule/Results |url=http://www.thecommonwealthclash.com/gameday/index.php |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140903082900/http://thecommonwealthclash.com/gameday/index.php |url-status=usurped |archive-date=September 3, 2014 |publisher=The Commonwealth Clash |access-date=November 28, 2014}}
! 2015–16 ! 2016–17 ! 2017–18 ! 2018–19 ! 2019–20 ! 2021–22 ! 2022–23 ! 2023-24 ! 2024-25 |
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| style="background: #f6f6f6;" |Men's Soccer
| style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Cavaliers|border=0|color=white}}" | UVA | style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Cavaliers|border=0|color=white}}" | UVA | style="background: #cccccc; color:#222222" | Halved | style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Cavaliers|border=0|color=white}}" | UVA | style="background: #cccccc; color:#222222" | Halved | style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Cavaliers|border=0|color=white}}" | UVA | style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Tech Hokies|border=0|color=white}}" | VT | style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Cavaliers|border=0|color=white}}" | UVA | style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Cavaliers|border=0|color=white}}" | UVA | style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Cavaliers|border=0|color=white}}" | UVA | |
| style="background: #f6f6f6;" |Women's Soccer
| style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Cavaliers|border=0|color=white}}" | UVA | style="background: #cccccc; color:#222" | Did Not Play | style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Cavaliers|border=0|color=white}}" | UVA | style="background: #cccccc; color:#222" | Did Not Play | style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Tech Hokies|border=0|color=white}};" | VT | style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Cavaliers|border=0|color=white}}" | UVA | style="background: #cccccc; color:#222" | Did Not Play | style="background: #cccccc; color:#222222" | Halved | style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Cavaliers|border=0|color=white}}" | UVA | style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Cavaliers|border=0|color=white}}" | UVA | |
| style="background: #f6f6f6;" |Men's Cross Country
| style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Cavaliers|border=0|color=white}}" | UVA | style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Cavaliers|border=0|color=white}}" | UVA | style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Cavaliers|border=0|color=white}}" | UVA | style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Tech Hokies|border=0|color=white}};" | VT | style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Cavaliers|border=0|color=white}}" | UVA | style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Tech Hokies|border=0|color=white}};" | VT | style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Cavaliers|border=0|color=white}}" | UVA | style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Cavaliers|border=0|color=white}}" | UVA | style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Cavaliers|border=0|color=white}}" | UVA | style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Cavaliers|border=0|color=white}}" | UVA | |
| style="background: #f6f6f6;" |Women's Cross Country
| style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Cavaliers|border=0|color=white}}" | UVA | style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Cavaliers|border=0|color=white}}" | UVA | style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Tech Hokies|border=0|color=white}};" | VT | style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Tech Hokies|border=0|color=white}};" | VT | style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Tech Hokies|border=0|color=white}};" | VT | style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Tech Hokies|border=0|color=white}};" | VT | style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Tech Hokies|border=0|color=white}};" | VT | style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Cavaliers|border=0|color=white}}" | UVA | style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Cavaliers|border=0|color=white}}" | UVA | style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Cavaliers|border=0|color=white}}" | UVA | |
| style="background: #f6f6f6;" |Volleyball
| style="background: #cccccc; color:#222222" | Halved | style="background: #cccccc; color:#222222" | Halved | style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Tech Hokies|border=0|color=white}}" | VT | style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Tech Hokies|border=0|color=white}}" | VT | style="background: #cccccc; color:#222222" | Halved | style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Cavaliers|border=0|color=white}}" | UVA | style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Tech Hokies|border=0|color=white}};" | VT | style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Cavaliers|border=0|color=white}}" | UVA | style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Cavaliers|border=0|color=white}}" | UVA | style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Cavaliers|border=0|color=white}}" | UVA | |
| style="background: #f6f6f6;" |Football
| style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Tech Hokies|border=0|color=white}};" | VT | style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Tech Hokies|border=0|color=white}};" | VT | style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Tech Hokies|border=0|color=white}};" | VT | style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Tech Hokies|border=0|color=white}};" | VT | style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Tech Hokies|border=0|color=white}};" | VT | style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Cavaliers|border=0|color=white}}" | UVA | style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Tech Hokies|border=0|color=white}};" | VT | style="background: #cccccc; color:#222222" | Not Played{{efn|The 2022 edition of the Commonwealth Cup was cancelled due to the 2022 University of Virginia shooting, which took the lives of three Virginia players.}} | style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Tech Hokies|border=0|color=white}};" | VT | style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Tech Hokies|border=0|color=white}};" | VT | |
| style="background: #f6f6f6;" |Men's Basketball
| style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Cavaliers|border=0|color=white}}" | UVA | style="background: #cccccc; color:#222222" | Halved | style="background: #cccccc; color:#222222" | Halved | style="background: #cccccc; color:#222222" | Halved | style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Cavaliers|border=0|color=white}}" | UVA | style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Cavaliers|border=0|color=white}}" | UVA | style="background: #cccccc; color:#222222" | Halved | style="background: #cccccc; color:#222222" | Halved | style="background: #cccccc; color:#222222" | Halved | style="background: #cccccc; color:#222222" | Halved | |
| style="background: #f6f6f6;" |Women's Basketball
| style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Cavaliers|border=0|color=white}}" | UVA | style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Tech Hokies|border=0|color=white}}" | VT | style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Cavaliers|border=0|color=white}}" | UVA | style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Cavaliers|border=0|color=white}}" | UVA | style="background: #cccccc; color:#222222" | Halved | style="background: #cccccc; color:#222222" | Halved | style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Tech Hokies|border=0|color=white}}" | VT | style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Tech Hokies|border=0|color=white}}" | VT | style="background: #cccccc; color:#222222" | Halved | style="background: #cccccc; color:#222222" | Halved | |
| style="background: #f6f6f6;" |Wrestling
| style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Tech Hokies|border=0|color=white}}" | VT | style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Tech Hokies|border=0|color=white}}" | VT | style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Tech Hokies|border=0|color=white}}" | VT | style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Tech Hokies|border=0|color=white}}" | VT | style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Tech Hokies|border=0|color=white}}" | VT | style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Tech Hokies|border=0|color=white}};" | VT | style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Tech Hokies|border=0|color=white}}" | VT | style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Tech Hokies|border=0|color=white}}" | VT | style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Tech Hokies|border=0|color=white}};" | VT | style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Tech Hokies|border=0|color=white}};" | VT | |
| style="background: #f6f6f6;" |Men's Swimming/Diving
| style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Tech Hokies|border=0|color=white}}" | VT | style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Tech Hokies|border=0|color=white}}" | VT | style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Tech Hokies|border=0|color=white}}" | VT | style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Cavaliers|border=0|color=white}}" | UVA | style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Cavaliers|border=0|color=white}}" | UVA | style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Cavaliers|border=0|color=white}}" | UVA | style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Tech Hokies|border=0|color=white}}" | VT | style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Tech Hokies|border=0|color=white}}" | VT | style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Tech Hokies|border=0|color=white}};" | VT | style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Tech Hokies|border=0|color=white}};" | VT | |
| style="background: #f6f6f6;" |Women's Swimming/Diving
| style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Cavaliers|border=0|color=white}}" | UVA | style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Cavaliers|border=0|color=white}}" | UVA | style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Cavaliers|border=0|color=white}}" | UVA | style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Cavaliers|border=0|color=white}}" | UVA | style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Cavaliers|border=0|color=white}}" | UVA | style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Cavaliers|border=0|color=white}}" | UVA | style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Cavaliers|border=0|color=white}}" | UVA | style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Cavaliers|border=0|color=white}}" | UVA | style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Cavaliers|border=0|color=white}}" | UVA | style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Cavaliers|border=0|color=white}}" | UVA | |
| style="background: #f6f6f6;" |Men's Indoor Track and Field
| style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Tech Hokies|border=0|color=white}}" | VT | style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Cavaliers|border=0|color=white}}" | UVA | style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Tech Hokies|border=0|color=white}}" | VT | style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Tech Hokies|border=0|color=white}}" | VT | style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Tech Hokies|border=0|color=white}}" | VT | style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Tech Hokies|border=0|color=white}};" | VT | style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Tech Hokies|border=0|color=white}}" | VT | style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Tech Hokies|border=0|color=white}}" | VT | style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Tech Hokies|border=0|color=white}};" | VT | style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Tech Hokies|border=0|color=white}};" | VT | |
| style="background: #f6f6f6;" |Women's Indoor Track and Field
| style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Tech Hokies|border=0|color=white}}" | VT | style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Cavaliers|border=0|color=white}}" | UVA | style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Tech Hokies|border=0|color=white}}" | VT | style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Tech Hokies|border=0|color=white}}" | VT | style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Tech Hokies|border=0|color=white}}" | VT | style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Tech Hokies|border=0|color=white}};" | VT | style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Tech Hokies|border=0|color=white}};" | VT | style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Tech Hokies|border=0|color=white}}" | VT | style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Tech Hokies|border=0|color=white}};" | VT | style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Cavaliers|border=0|color=white}}" | UVA | |
| style="background: #f6f6f6;" |Men's Tennis
| style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Cavaliers|border=0|color=white}}" | UVA | style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Cavaliers|border=0|color=white}}" | UVA | style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Cavaliers|border=0|color=white}}" | UVA | style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Tech Hokies|border=0|color=white}}" | VT | style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Cavaliers|border=0|color=white}}" | UVA | rowspan = 6 style="background: #cccccc; color:#222" | Not Played | style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Cavaliers|border=0|color=white}}" | UVA | style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Cavaliers|border=0|color=white}}" | UVA | style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Cavaliers|border=0|color=white}}" | UVA | style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Cavaliers|border=0|color=white}}" | UVA | |
| style="background: #f6f6f6;" |Women's Tennis
| style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Cavaliers|border=0|color=white}}" | UVA | style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Cavaliers|border=0|color=white}}" | UVA | style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Cavaliers|border=0|color=white}}" | UVA | style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Cavaliers|border=0|color=white}}" | UVA | style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Cavaliers|border=0|color=white}}" | UVA | style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Cavaliers|border=0|color=white}}" | UVA | style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Cavaliers|border=0|color=white}}" | UVA | style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Cavaliers|border=0|color=white}}" | UVA | style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Cavaliers|border=0|color=white}}" | UVA | |
| style="background: #f6f6f6;" |Men's Golf
| style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Cavaliers|border=0|color=white}}" | UVA | style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Cavaliers|border=0|color=white}}" | UVA | style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Cavaliers|border=0|color=white}}" | UVA | style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Cavaliers|border=0|color=white}}" | UVA | style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Cavaliers|border=0|color=white}}" | UVA | style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Cavaliers|border=0|color=white}}" | UVA | style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Cavaliers|border=0|color=white}}" | UVA | style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Cavaliers|border=0|color=white}}" | UVA | style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Cavaliers|border=0|color=white}}" | UVA | |
| style="background: #f6f6f6;" |Women's Golf
| style="background: #cccccc; color:#222" | Did Not Play | style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Cavaliers|border=0|color=white}}" | UVA | style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Cavaliers|border=0|color=white}}" | UVA | style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Cavaliers|border=0|color=white}}" | UVA | style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Cavaliers|border=0|color=white}}" | UVA | style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Cavaliers|border=0|color=white}}" | UVA | style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Cavaliers|border=0|color=white}}" | UVA | style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Cavaliers|border=0|color=white}}" | UVA | style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Cavaliers|border=0|color=white}}" | UVA | |
| style="background: #f6f6f6;" |Women's Lacrosse
| style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Cavaliers|border=0|color=white}}" | UVA | style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Cavaliers|border=0|color=white}}" | UVA | style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Cavaliers|border=0|color=white}}" | UVA | style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Tech Hokies|border=0|color=white}};" | VT | style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Cavaliers|border=0|color=white}}" | UVA | style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Cavaliers|border=0|color=white}}" | UVA | style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Cavaliers|border=0|color=white}}" | UVA | style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Cavaliers|border=0|color=white}}" | UVA | style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Cavaliers|border=0|color=white}}" | UVA | |
| style="background: #f6f6f6;" |Baseball
| style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Tech Hokies|border=0|color=white}};" | VT | style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Cavaliers|border=0|color=white}}" | UVA | style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Cavaliers|border=0|color=white}}" | UVA | style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Cavaliers|border=0|color=white}}" | UVA | style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Cavaliers|border=0|color=white}}" | UVA | style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Tech Hokies|border=0|color=white}};" | VT | style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Tech Hokies|border=0|color=white}};" | VT | style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Cavaliers|border=0|color=white}}" | UVA | style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Cavaliers|border=0|color=white}}" | UVA | |
| style="background: #f6f6f6;" |Softball
| style="background: #cccccc; color:#222222" | Halved | style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Tech Hokies|border=0|color=white}};" | VT | style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Tech Hokies|border=0|color=white}};" | VT | style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Tech Hokies|border=0|color=white}};" | VT | style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Tech Hokies|border=0|color=white}};" | VT | style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Tech Hokies|border=0|color=white}};" | VT | style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Tech Hokies|border=0|color=white}};" | VT | style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Tech Hokies|border=0|color=white}};" | VT | style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Tech Hokies|border=0|color=white}};" | VT | style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Tech Hokies|border=0|color=white}};" | VT | |
| style="background: #f6f6f6;" |Men's Outdoor Track and Field
| style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Cavaliers|border=0|color=white}}" | UVA | style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Tech Hokies|border=0|color=white}};" | VT | style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Tech Hokies|border=0|color=white}};" | VT | style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Tech Hokies|border=0|color=white}};" | VT | style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Tech Hokies|border=0|color=white}};" | VT | rowspan = 2 style="background: #cccccc; color:#222" | Not Played | style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Tech Hokies|border=0|color=white}};" | VT | style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Cavaliers|border=0|color=white}}" | UVA | style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Cavaliers|border=0|color=white}}" | UVA | style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Tech Hokies|border=0|color=white}};" | VT | |
| style="background: #f6f6f6;" |Women's Outdoor Track and Field
| style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Cavaliers|border=0|color=white}}" | UVA | style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Cavaliers|border=0|color=white}}" | UVA | style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Tech Hokies|border=0|color=white}};" | VT | style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Tech Hokies|border=0|color=white}};" | VT | style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Cavaliers|border=0|color=white}}" | UVA | style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Cavaliers|border=0|color=white}}" | UVA | style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Tech Hokies|border=0|color=white}};" | VT | style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Cavaliers|border=0|color=white}}" | UVA | style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Cavaliers|border=0|color=white}}" | UVA | |
| style="background: #f6f6f6;" |Fan Vote point
| style="{{CollegePrimaryStyle|Virginia Cavaliers|border=0|color=white}}" | UVA | colspan = 9 style="background: #cccccc; color:#222222" | No Vote Held |
Intensity and Pranks
Some from outside the state find the rivalry to be an especially bitter one. Former Ohio State quarterback and football analyst Kirk Herbstreit said in 2004 that he "never realized how much those people hate each other." He went on to say "when I was down in Blacksburg, I said some nice things about Al Groh and it was like I had turned my back on them."{{cite news |title= Tech-UVa relationship eye-opening for Herbstreit |newspaper= Roanoke Times |date= November 19, 2004 |url= http://www.roanoke.com/sports/notebookplus/wb/14125 |access-date= October 11, 2007 }}
In 2011, students from Virginia Tech put a tee shirt from their school on a statue of Thomas Jefferson located on The Lawn, after Virginia Tech's football team won the yearly matchup.{{Cite web|url=http://www.nbc29.com/story/16130903/virginia-tech-vandals-play-dress-up-with-tj|title=Virginia Tech Pranksters Play Dress-Up With Mr. Jefferson|website=www.nbc29.com|language=en|access-date=December 6, 2018}}
History
=Virginia Tech joins ACC=
In 2003, the Atlantic Coast Conference initially planned to add Boston College, Miami, and Syracuse to the conference lineup. Talks with Syracuse stalled as Jim Boeheim vocalized his opposition to the move, and Duke, UNC, and Virginia consistently voted against adding the Orange. When it became obvious that Syracuse lacked the necessary seven votes, Virginia Tech emerged as a compromise candidate put forward to win over the decisive seventh vote from the University of Virginia that ACC officials needed to gain approval for their expansion plans.
Virginia Governor Mark Warner earlier had suggested the NCAA intervene and mediate the expansion process, and when that failed added pressure to UVA President John Casteen to refrain from casting an affirmative vote for the conference's plan to expand without Virginia Tech.[https://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/11/sports/colleges-obstacles-are-piling-up-in-acc-expansion-path.html Obstacles Piling Up in ACC Expansion Path], accessed March 6, 2016 Warner feared that such a move would hurt Virginia Tech by leaving it in a diminished Big East.{{cite news |title= ACC to invite Virginia Tech |newspaper= The Washington Times |date= June 19, 2003 |url= http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2003/jun/19/20030619-010114-6618r/?page=all |access-date= August 21, 2014 }} UVA President John T. Casteen III then offered a plan to have the ACC expand but consider Virginia Tech in lieu of Syracuse on June 18, 2003.[https://web.archive.org/web/20140921200518/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-267397.html ACC Will Reconsider Hokies for Expansion; Adding Virginia Tech Would Make It a 13-Team League {{!}} Article from The Washington Post {{!}} HighBeam Research] Duke and UNC voted against the Hokies, but with Casteen's support Virginia Tech was invited to the conference with 7 out of 9 votes. Miami and Virginia Tech joined the ACC in 2004, with Boston College joining in 2005.
The primary significance of this development to the rivalry was that the athletic teams from the two schools would now be mandated to play every year. For instance, the men's college soccer teams did not face each other in any of the four seasons between 2000 and 2003. They have since met every year after Virginia Tech became a conference member in 2004. Additionally, in some sports where there was already an agreement to play each other on an annual basis, the teams might now play more than once. For instance, the men's college basketball teams had played each other annually since the 1934–35 season but not faced each other twice in the same season since 1983–84. Starting with the 2004–05 season, the teams have played at least twice each year, and in 2005–06 the teams met for a third time in the ACC tournament.
=Impact of the Virginia Tech massacre=
In addition to ending the original Commonwealth Challenge, the Virginia Tech massacre had the effect of lessening of hostilities between the two universities during the aftermath. According to The Washington Post "students in both camps are more apt to think of themselves as simply Virginians." UVa students were among the first to lend support to the Virginia Tech community in the wake of the shootings. Likewise, the connections between the two university's populations are often very close. Prior to the 2007 football contest in Charlottesville both college's bands participated in a joint performance.{{cite news |title= After Tragedy, Hokies and Cavs Take Field as Virginians All |newspaper=Washington Post |date= November 23, 2007 |url= https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/23/AR2007112301215.html?nav=hcmodule |access-date= December 2, 2007 |first= Jonathan |last= Mummolo}}
{{quote|...there was the sense among Tech students that fans of U-Va. – an institution founded by none other than Thomas Jefferson – looked down their noses at the mountain-ensconced Hokies of Blacksburg. Hokies were "hicks"; Cavaliers were "snobs." But after the shootings in April, something changed. U-Va. students and faculty members wrote condolence letters, held a candlelight vigil and even painted the campus's fabled Beta Bridge with a pro-Hokies phrase.|Jonathan Mummolo|The Washington Post{{cite news |title= Why are rivalries so intense? |newspaper= Washington Post |date= 2007-11-24 |url= https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/23/AR2007112301215.html |access-date= 2008-05-11 |first= Jonathan |last= Mummolo}}}}
UVa.'s student newspaper reported that students in Charlottesville were even sporting Hokie sweatshirts on occasion in observance of the tragedy. The University's Z Society went so far as unveiling a 65' x 120' Virginia Pride flag featuring both UVA and VT logos on it during the annual football game, and it was noted that the two fan bases had never been so close as they were after the shootings.
{{quote|Since the tragedy, it hasn't been so odd to see a Wahoo wearing a Virginia Tech sweatshirt. Since April, transfer students haven't felt so awkward saying they used to attend school in Blacksburg. Truly, Hokies and Wahoos have never been so together.|Eric Kolenich|The Cavalier Daily{{cite news |title= Tragedy vs. rivalry |newspaper= Cavalier Daily |date= 2007-11-19 |url= http://www.cavalierdaily.com/CVarticle.asp?ID=31771&pid=1655 |access-date= 2008-05-11 }}}}
=Impact of the 2022 UVA shooting=
Much like the sportsmanship and support shown in the wake of the Virginia Tech massacre, several condolences and tributes were provided by Virginia Tech and other Virginia universities in the wake of the 2022 University of Virginia shooting, in which three students were killed and two others were injured. All three killed and one of the wounded were members of the UVA football team. Virginia would end up canceling the remaining two games on its schedule, including the finale at Virginia Tech.
The following Saturday, November 19, Virginia Tech and Liberty Flames football players wore orange and navy blue jerseys to match U-Va.'s colors prior to their matchup. Virginia Tech receivers coach Fontel Mines, a former Virginia receiver, raised the school's flag as the Hokies entered the field ahead of the game, and Liberty's band performed Virginia's "The Good Old Song" following a first-quarter touchdown.{{cite news |title= Virginia shooting victims honored across college football |newspaper= The Washington Post |date= November 19, 2022 |url= https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2022/11/19/virginia-shooting-football-tributes/ |access-date= June 17, 2023 }}
In Week 11 of the 2022 NFL season, several Washington Commanders players and coaches were seen wearing Virginia Cavaliers apparel prior to their game against the Houston Texans, including tight end Logan Thomas, a former Virginia Tech quarterback.{{cite web |url=https://www.instagram.com/p/ClMGyTLu0H7/ |title=Washington Commanders on Instagram: "🧡💙 #FootballisFamily" |website=Instagram |access-date=June 17, 2023}}
See also
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