The ACC announced the 2018 football schedules will be released tomorrow.
You're excited. We're excited. The 2018 #ACCFootball schedule will be released tomorrow!! 🎉🎉🎉 pic.twitter.com/53ZJD3mbav— ACC Football (@ACCFootball) January 16, 2018
I'm curious what your must-have is for the Hokies' slate.
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how about a bye week before GT?
I'd prefer one after so the guys can ice their knees longer.
flanked with the softest teams like UNC, UVA, Duke.
It's nice that UNC and Duke are being put back in their place by us.
There is one.
Georgia Tech on a Thursday night. Get the automatic by before and get the extra days to recover after
This is best case scenario short of kicking them out of the ACC or punting them to the Atlantic.
Techmo bowl will be on Thursday night
ND in decent weather.
ND in October to be specific.
We'll have to wait until late September to see a good forecast for October 6th. But generally speaking, early October in Blacksburg is very nice.
Not a September loaded home schedule. Spread it out, por favor.
Hell yes to this. Or if not spread out, give us an October loaded with home games.
Sept is already scheduled. 2 home games, 2 away; 5 home and 3 away for Oct and Nov.
And one of those October dates is ND! Woohoo!
There could be a 3rd Sept home game that week after ODU.
I don't want Georgia Tech before Notre Dame and I want a damn Thursday night game at HOME!
For me it's just not having a home game during the Richmond race.
Luckily for you, they're @ODU that weekend. I want a bye for Martinsville and an away game for the Talladega fall race (haven't made that one totally official yet, but it's the even year...we gotta go...it's a tradition at this point).
Miami, Saturday night in November.
Notre Dame on a
weekendThursday I'm not on a boat or in the desert.I don't care what it looks like tomorrow as long as there's 15 little green W's beside each game on the 2018 schedule this time next year.
Please, God do not put Miami, GT, and ND in consecutive weeks.
Oh you know it's coming. We're VT, they always fuck us with the scheduling. Sorta /s.
An away game the weekend before Halloween. I always carve a bunch of big pumpkins to put out and I need the time to get them done and get ready for all of the Halloween stuff we do with the neighborhood kids. Though if we do have a home game that weekend, I will bring another Hokie Bird pumpkin to the Lot 18 tailgate.
Those pumpkins we're bad ass.
Also I'm going to need ALL the games on TV on some kind of nationally available network.
Freezing ass cold for the Miami game. I want that damn turnover chain to be so cold no one wants to touch it.
This all day long.
I've always hoped that some DB for another team would get a pick to seal the win right by the Miami sidelines and run straight to the chain, steal it, and bring it over to the their sidelines. It would require perfect timing, field position, and brass balls, but it would be an epic moment in college athletics.
I want them to forget it on the Away bench at Lane Stadium so that the VTCC can claim it for our museum. We have a history of successfully...uhhhh..."liberating" opponent trophies (see: West Point's sacrificial turkey, WVU's musket). A turnover chain is Keydet's play compared to keeping a turkey concealed in enemy territory for a week.
And if we run out of brass balls, we can substitute with Reggis.
Too bad he's gone; he would've been the perfect candidate to execute this.
Turnover chain might as well be an ice rope.
15 Wins.
All games on the ACC network at noon every.single.saturday.
Jim Weaver's ghost has possessed a member of TKPC! We need a young priest, an old priest, and the rest of us have to stand at the North End of the room performing the "Stick It in" cheer!
I impulsively downvoted this. Begrudgingly gave you your leg back though.
If we are using a time machine can't we go back to another year other than 2012?
A Thursday Night Home Game!!!
How 'bout: no Thursday games
Friday night game would be good
holy shit had to check my downvote reflex for this one
Hokies will be jumping on Thursday night.
Crap. Thursday nights are for Houston and Memphis. We gotta stop signing up for this.
If you want to ensure a night game, Friday's are superior to Thursday's in every way.
What?
I see you're new to college football. Welcome! Don't worry, you'll get the hang of this quickly enough :)
Friday nights are for high school. Thursday nights are for the Hokies.
It's literally like our mantra.
Sorry but you're wrong in every way
Disagree. Thursday night games were great when we needed the exposure and when the NFL didn't also have a Thursday night game. I don't think we need them now.
Much as I might want to, I can't afford to take two days off work, and Mrs. Freefall will never support pulling the kiddos out of school, to attend a football game. So that means I will miss this year's GT game. :-(
At this point everyone in college football associates big Thursday night games with VT. That's not just me being a homer with maroon and orange shades.
Here are our Thursday night games since 2001:
2001: N/A
2002: BC, WVU (Wednesday)
2003: A&M, WVU (Wednesday)
2004: GT
2005: UMD, BC
2006: BC, Clemson (NOTE: TNF started in 2006)
2007: BC, GT
2008: UMD, Miami
2009: UNC, ECU
2010: GT
2011: GT, UNC
2012: Miami, FSU
2013: GT
2014: Pitt, Miami
2015: GT
2016: Miami, Pitt
2017: N/A
Outside of the lone matchups with Clemson, FSU, and aTm, and a handful of games with Miami, I'll wager that none of the rest generated much in the way of national interest.
So I'd say it another way: no one in college football associates big games with Thursday night.
But hey, I get it... lots of folks love Thursday night games. If you need tickets, hit me up. :-)
The actual TV ratings for the two years I looked would disagree. Both were in top 11 games watched that week. That's over 1.5 million households.
Tech owns Thursday night games and that atmosphere is electric every single time.
I'm with smooth. Thursday nights are for up and comers. Yes they put us on the map but we need Saturday games. How many times have you seen usc, nd, mi, etc on Thursday?
ND has their own home football network.
USC: 2016 played a Friday and Thursday game, 2015 Thur and Friday game
Michigan 2015 played Thursday game. But I'm not sure BIG Ten plays any Thursday conference games.
more october home games
3:30 kickoffs
Noooo. That's the WORST start time. Load me up with nooners and night games. The 3:30 ones eat up the whole day.
Agreed. Absolutely the worst time for football to start
FTFY. But I agree with you.
Nooners are best if you're watching from home. 3:30 is best if you're making a day trip. Night games are best if you're going for the weekend.
Why? You got something more important to do that day?
Yes. Usually at least two soccer games. Maybe ballet practice. And I need to either mow or cut firewood.
Noon games are the worst for me, at least with 3:30 games I can just watch them on a 2 hour delay.
Priorities friend. Priorities. I could see the soccer and ballet things with the kids, but mowing and cutting firewood are not more important than a Hokie football game, I would suggest. DVRs take care of it, though. And yes, I've mowed miles of grass and cut tractor trailer loads of firewood in my day, but not when the Hokies are ballin'.
The 3:30 ones eat up the whole day.
I eat bourbon the whole day for the 3:30 games.
In order of preference: 6:00, 7:30, 8:00, 3:30, 1:00, 12:00.
Nooners are the devil.
I want the UNC and Duke games not to be back-to-back weeks so I have a higher chance of attending both
Our annual end of the regular season scrimmage to be first as a warm up for the nolies
For ECU not to be on the schedule
Making my way to Tallahassee on Labor Day night, Notre Dame's first trip to Blacksburg is on my birthday, UNC/Duke are really easy drives, and UVA is at home - so I'm already thrilled with the schedule. Give me Miami on a cold early November Thursday or Saturday night please.
The South Beach squad didn't do too well last time in Blacksburg in 2016 when we had a Thursday night game, even though the temperatures hit 80 that day before the long sleeve Maroon Effect game. Temperatures ended up being upper 60s by kickoff.
I want to play Miami in November and I want it to snow in Lane. Starting in the 2nd quarter and then getting more and more the rest of the game. Like snow on the ground accumulating for two or three inches type of snow.
Hot take: I don't want a Thursday night game. That was a thing when we were trying to build our brand and we were the only team on TV.
They now have multiple games on Thursday nights, with a majority of them being lower tier teams. We are not a lower tier team anymore.
I agree. Loved them as a student (and when I lived near campus after college), hate them as an alumnus who doesn't live in town anymore.
Vacation days don't grow on trees and I enjoy not having to use them to go see football. But they do win if you live there.
I loved them as a student, but I also don't mind them in my postgrad life now. Get to come home from work and watch Thursday night and have all day Saturday to watch other games as a general college football fan
umm...there are still students, it's still one of the best atmospheres you'll see in Blacksburg, and they deserve that same expereince. You need experiences like that to cement lifetime fans. You don't abandon a tradition because it's inconvenient for some people.
NFL also ruined the prestige of Thursday night.
Thursday night was great in the 90s and 00s, it's not the same, and will never be the same.
Wins...
Is the schedule already out or something? People talking like it is but I don't see it anywhere.
It's Out!!!
Thursday night in Lane against GT!!!
Home on Black Friday against UVA.
I'm sure Joe or someone else will post the full thing in another thread.
If we could have strong winds and heavy rain for the unc game I would be incredibly happy
14 Ws
I'd rather have 15 W's.
Oops, math was off.