Abigail Spanberger, rumored for the past few months to be gearing up for a run at the Virginia governor job in 2025, made it official on Monday, announcing her candidacy for the Democratic Party gubernatorial nomination.

Chris Graham breaks down the first entry into the 2025 race, and discusses the intraparty challenge in the House Republican caucus that Todd Gilbert was able to withstand to win election as the House Minority Leader.

Glenn Youngkin doesn’t get it. Todd Gilbert, the lame duck Virginia House Speaker, emphatically doesn’t get it.

Virginia voters signaled on Tuesday that they’re not on board with the MAGA-fication that the likes of Youngkin and Gilbert were promising to unleash in the next two years.

And yet, they’re still trying.

The message was sent. It still needs to be received.

A cheap-shot helmet-to-helmet hit that sent Perris Jones to the hospital was not penalized, but that no-call, one of many on Thursday night on national TV, is how things go when you’re 2-7 on the road at #11, and the league needs to make sure that #11 doesn’t step on its own dick on its way to a prime-time game in December for a possible CFP berth.

The scoreboard read Louisville 31, Virginia 24, when it hit triple zeroes.

The ACC has its Florida State-Louisville title game in Charlotte next month.

Congrats.

Hope they both lose.

Tony Bennett got an easy opening 40 minutes on Monday with the 80-50 win over Tarleton State to get a feel for his new-look roster and rotation.

Next up for Virginia: a Florida team that will give the ‘Hoos their first test of the 2023-2024 season.

Virginia and #11 Louisville get the short week this week, meeting on Thursday night in prime time on ESPN.

This works out for Louisville in terms of getting a national-TV showcase.

Virginia, a 20-point ‘dog, gets the chance to shock the world.

The powers-that-be in Charlotte hope like hell that doesn’t happen.

FSU needs a good dance partner for the ACC title game.

Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin is officially done politically, as Democrats swept to majorities in the State Senate and House of Delegates in the 2023 election cycle, in state legislative races decided on Tuesday.

JMU petitioning the NCAA for a chance to play a mid-December bowl sponsored by a roofing company is one thing. The stakes are now raised with the 9-0 Dukes in position to play in a New Year’s Six game.

Tony Elliott, to be fair, has become adept at delivering a self-deprecating message postgame. The former national champion offensive play-caller at Clemson is now 5-14 at Virginia, 2-10 in ACC games, and still (!) hasn’t won a home ACC game in his tenure.

The first glimpse of the new-look Virginia Basketball team was an 80-50 win over Tarleton State, which put up little resistance from the get-go in Monday’s season opener.

So, what did we see?

Ryan Blaney won his first-ever NASCAR Cup Series championship on Sunday in Phoenix.

Blaney, who finished second in the race, sure did seem like he thought he was running on a dirt track in May, the way he was swapping paint with everybody.

Rod Mullins breaks down everything for us.