West Virginia and Virginia fans feud online ahead of Week 3 showdown

The West Virginia Mountaineers have not gotten their season underway yet, but plenty of fans are already looking ahead to a Week 3 showdown with regional rival Virginia.

It's been over two decades since the two teams last met on the gridiron, but they do have a significant history against each other, and their isn't a ton of love lost between the bordering fan bases. And during a dominant Week 0 win on Saturday, the Cavaliers took what some perceived as a shot at the West Virginia Mountaineers playing "Take Me Home, Country Roads."

Virginia fans troll West Virginia over Country Roads

With many people online confused as to why the Cavaliers might be playing the song (although it's pretty easy to understand it as a shot at the Mountaineers ahead of thw upcoming game), one Virginia fan took to X (formerly known as Twitter) to give his bold take on why the Cavaliers deserve to play the song.

It's long been an argument from folks in Virginia that the song which has been associated with the West Virginia Mountaineers for decades is actually not about the Mountain State, but western Virginia. Although it's pretty well-known among college sports fans that the John Denver anthem is the unofficial theme for the Mountaineers.

And West Virginia fans took offense when it came to Virginia fans (and the Cavaliers themselves) having some fun at WVU's expense. And some fans took the time to point out that all the landmarks mentioned in the song are in West Virginia as well as western Virginia, and that John Denver once endorsed West Virginia's "ownership" of the song with a performance at Milan Puskar Stadium.

Now, with multiple weeks remaining before the two rivals clash, fans are already feuding online. It should be an electric environment in Charlotte when these two teams clash in Week 3.

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