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Virginia and NC State may move their upcoming college football matchup from Brazil back to Charlottesville, a win for fans who want games on campus.
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Sen. Ted Cruz votes during a Senate session at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. , on Feb. 25, 2026, amid a deadlock over funding that led to a Department of Homeland Security shutdown. Any college football fans looking for even the slightest of wins will be elated to hear that we may have gotten one in the form of Virginia and NC State moving their matchup this upcoming season from Brazil back to the friendly confines of Charlottesville.
Before we go any further, I understand this may be a massive bummer to any Wolfpack or Cavalier fans who bought tickets and made travel arrangements to see this game in Brazil and were maybe planning an extended vacation down there. An N.C. State helmet is shown during a college football game between the N.C. State Wolfpack and the Clemson Tigers at Clemson Memorial Stadium in Clemson, S.C.
, on Oct. 1, 2022. Let me be perfectly clear on this: I don't even like college football games being played at neutral sites on American soil, save for a few exceptions like The Red River Shootout or The World's Largest Outdoor Cocktail Party.going increasingly global and college trying to follow its lead, I'm not a fan of seeing our greatest sport being played overseas.
I didn't like it when we started playing week zero games in Dublin, and I sure as hell didn't appreciate this game being played in Brazil, so the fact that cooler heads prevailed and brought this ACC showdown back stateside is music to my ears as well as the ears of college football purists everywhere. I don't know why that is such a hard concept for the people in power to grasp, yet here we are.
Most Power 4 stadiums are cathedrals and deserve to host as many home games as are humanly possible within a given season. Plus, student sections are a sacred tradition in college football. Moving the games off campus only weakens the fan representation from a student's perspective. The Virginia Cavaliers logo is painted on the field before a college football game between the Louisville Cardinals and the Virginia Cavaliers at Scott Stadium in Charlottesville, Va.
, on Oct. 8, 2022. It would be hard enough for the average sophomore at UVA to make the trek to a neutral site in Charlotte, let alone to South America. I don't know why the NCAA hates its own fans so much, but let's all just be happy that just this once, college football got a win it desperately needed.
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