It’s not a rivalry in the purest sense of the word, and if you look at the game history between the schools, it looks more like an occasional annual brawl punctuated by long periods of not paying much attention to each other. The schools met at a very steady, almost annual pace from the first game in 1895 until they took a break from the action between 1917 and 1928. Of course the game was very different in that era, and was evolving and changing dramatically during that generation. There was a small gaggle of encounters between 1928 and 1946, but nothing that constituted any sort of real competition between the two schools.
Preview: Virginia Tech Hokies vs the UNC Tar Heels
