Editor's Note: Thanks to 757Hokey for starting this thread in the forum. --Joe
The following is from the official HokieSports.com release.
Virginia Tech and the University of Michigan announced Thursday that they have agreed to a home-and-home football series that will be played during the 2020 and 2021 seasons. The agreement calls for the Hokies and Wolverines to play in Ann Arbor, Mich., on Sept. 19, 2020, and meet the following season in Blacksburg on Sept. 11, 2021.
"I am pleased that Dave Brandon (Michigan AD) and I have been able to work out this agreement," Tech Director of Athletics Jim Weaver said. "Michigan is the winningest college football program in the country, and it will be exciting to have the Wolverines come to Lane Stadium."
The two schools have met just once previously on the gridiron with Michigan registering a hard-fought 23-20 overtime victory in the 2012 Sugar Bowl game.Michigan becomes the third Big Ten team on future Tech schedules, joining Ohio State and Wisconsin. The Hokies are scheduled to travel to Ohio State in 2014 and play host to the Buckeyes in 2015. A two-game series with Wisconsin is set to begin in 2016.
Tech is currently 1-1 all-time against Big Ten teams, with both meetings coming in bowl games. Prior to their Sugar Bowl loss to Michigan in 2012, the Hokies defeated Indiana 45-20 in the 1993 Independence Bowl.
Nice follow up to the already scheduled home and home series between Ohio state and Wisconsin that starts in 2014. Thoughts?
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It was a catch!!!!
No Pac-12 refs!
You'd be hard pressed to find any Hokie fans that don't like the move. Now the more serious issue is making sure a certain ref doesn't accidentally find his way onto the field in the Michigan home game.
Refs weren't to bad. The replay official on the other hand.
idk from my memory there were a few questionable pass interferences that swayed the game a little bit
Probably the most overlooked call from that game came before the stupid fake punt. On 2nd down, David Wilson CLEARLY gets the 1st down. Absolutely no doubt about it. Yet the refs mark him short and we fall start on the next play, don't convert the 3rd down, then fake punt.
That PI on the interception was pretty horse shit too.
Hot damn. I will certainly be there (I'm 45 minutes from Ann Arbor).
Shoot, I live in Blacksburg (and might be relocating to Winston-Salem) and I'm still gonna be there.
I love it. There's a chance to get a little redemption, Michigan and the Big House are one of those must do trips in college football, and it'll be a perfect boost to the non-conference schedule as far as the playoff is concerned.
If I am alive, I'll be there.
As someone who grew up not too far from Ann Arbor (and despises them), I'm so glad we get another shot at them!
even michigan fans will tell you we won that game
even their coach said it was a catch
i better stop dwelling on it
How far we've come. Those of you old enough to remember "Schedule for Success" in the mid 90's remember hearing "Teams like Michigan won't schedule us for home and homes."
Out of conference schedule provided by Andy Bitter:
We need to do something about 2018/2019...We could drop one and continue the B1G trend (*ahem* Penn State, I'm looking at you *ahem*)
Penn State would be legit. I still feel bad for them about what happened. My dad was a huge fan of JoePa.
2018/2019 is about the time our turn for Notre Dame to visit us will come up. That will balance it out more.
I know we're at Notre Dame in 2016, and Notre Dame plays 5 ACC teams a season. Right now they play every ACC team once during their first three years 2014-16 (http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/ncaaf/acc/2013/04/19/notre-dame-atl...). If the home and away matchups over the first 3 years are inverted for the next 3, the Irish would come to Blacksburg in 2019. So what you're saying is logical. Therefore 2018, might be a neutral site matchup in Atlanta or FedEx. Weaver would absolutely crush if he could get Hokies-Vols in a neutral site game done.
as a Tennessee Hokie, +1 for the matchup. Epic game at Bristol Motor Speedway?
oops I wrote that the home and home with ohio state starts 2015
Edit: just saw that Joe fixed it for me
We should be playing Notre Dame at home in either 2018 or 2019
with these games every couple years vs Notre Dame and now this, the future schedule looks awesome!
Virginia Tech AD Jim Weaver said in a release. “Michigan is the winningest college football program in the country.”
I mean they are, by a rather significant margin.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_NCAA_football_teams_by_wins
i know, i read this yesterday and thought to myself, "well they are"
#AVENGETHESUGARBOWL.
Hey Y'all. Its great to have reason to post here again. Last time I posted it was hoping that we would get another home and home. Looks like my wish came true.
Cheers.
Would upvote, but a little concerned that an 'enemy' poster already has 53 turkey legs! I'm only at 184 and have been here for over a year! Haha.
Thanks for stopping back by, RaleighBlue. Enjoyed your insights prior to the Sugar Bowl, and very excited about this Home and Home. My best buddy at work is a Michigan Alum, so I've already sworn a blood pact with him that we'll be doing a little travelling in '20 and '21... Big house is definitely a college football must, and pretty sure he's gonna love Blacksburg and Lane as well.
I'm going to try to make it to the Blacksburg game - with Maryland in Rutgers now in the B1G its going to be a lot easier to see Michigan each year, but this game is still a must.
Michigan Stadium is very deceptive and not at all impressive from the outside. When you step into the bowl the first time you can lose your feet as the stadium widens out in front of you.
I think we can really (it was a catch) look forward to going up to the big house (it WAS a catch) and performing well on a big stage (it was a CATCH!). Hopefully we can pull out (it WAS a CATCH!) a big win by beating the living crap out of them so it isn't even close in the fourth quarter (IT WAS A CATCH!)
By the way, on a side note, I just wanted to highlight something:
We are currently in Year 7 of what will be 15 years....where we play EAST CAROLINA 14 TIMES!!!! 14 of 15. Against ECU. What. The. Fleck.
I guess they think that if they just keep forcing them onto our schedule it will become a rivalry. #ANYOTHERDIRECTIONALCAROLINAPLEASE
maybe, but do you really want ECU for a rivalry game?
I think the majority Hokie Nation would be perfectly fine with never having anything to do with ECU ever again. I fucking hate their whole gimmicky atmosphere, colors, mascot, everything.*
* The preceding rant may or may not have been influenced by the outcome of a certain 2008 football game contest, that may or may not have been decided by an atrocious performance by an atrocious QB who will go unnamed.
Don't know if you've been there, but ECU's stadium is horrible. I live in NC, and my former boss was an ECU booster. We got free tickets to the game which is good because, having seen it, we wouldn't have paid money to go inside.
Now, now, there are some perks to playing at ECU
You know who else has pretty girls? South Carolina, Tennessee, Ole Miss, Georgia, Florida... hell, even Mississippi State and Vandy probably have a pretty girl or two.
True, in fact a good buddy of mine from home went to Vandy and I was amazed when I visited. Even the Cavs say we have the prettier women of the two, though we don't have the ratio. That's what I hate about the expanded ACC; less Southern schools!
C'mon UK, let's make a trade!
All I want is ONE excuse to visit Ole Miss.
I think you have it.
Here here. I would love to be surrounded by blond southern belles. With the accent. Lawdy lawdy, the accent.
Their coach said he cried when he found out about the series
too bad we arent playing South Carolina in 2013. Then we would have hit all the cardinal directional schools of Carolina!
Bowl game, perhaps?
I don't know why everybody is talking about revenge against Michigan. I remember beating them in the Sugar Bowl.
Yep, we beat Michigan that night but lost to the Pac-12 refs.
As a long-time Stanford fan, I can assure you that the Sugar Bowl was not an isolated incident. I've lost track of how many times I've wanted to just punch the zebras in the neck through my TV. Not that I would, mind you.... that's frowned upon by the state.
As a Michigan grad student, I'm soooooper pumped!
As a Virginia Tech alum and a Penn State grad student....well, you get the idea.
At least Henne and Manningham won't be there.