In September 2022, 25-year-old mother of three Alyssa Taylor was living on the Eastern Shore of Virginia. “She loved going to the beach and the water park and taking her boys to the zoo,” Krista Taylor, Alyssa’s mother, told Dateline. “She was just a wonderful person. She would give you the shirt off her back.”

Virginia's trip to N.C. State is an unusual nonconference matchup between Atlantic Coast Conference teams on the Week 2 league schedule.

Virginia and North Carolina State ended last season with losing records, but one of them will be off to a 2-0 start this year. The teams will meet Saturday afternoon in Raleigh, N.C., in what officially will be called a non-conference game between two Atlantic Coast Conference teams.

Fourth-year Cavaliers coach Tony Elliott had high praise earlier this week for NC State QB CJ Bailey, pointing out that Bailey reminds him of current Baltimore Ravens and former Louisville QB Lamar Jackson.

Mark your calendars: the Wisconsin Badgers and Virginia Tech Hokies will face off in Bank of America Stadium in Charlotte, North Carolina, on August 30th in 2031. The last time the Badgers played in Charlotte was for the 2020 Duke's Mayo Bowl, where they defeated the Wake Forest Demon Deacons 42-28.

Aziah Johnson, who transferred to North Carolina after one season with Michigan State, is no longer with the football team.