I haven't seen a press release for this specifically, but Alabama announced a home & home with FSU today and in the release they let slip that apparently there is a home & home scheduled with VT for 2034/2035.
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The kids who will play in these games are currently 3 to 6 years old.
And that's assuming this never gets rescheduled and pushed out further ...
The new Wisconsin
I don't think Bama is skurred of playing anyone. Including us in the Georgia Dome, unfortunately.
I'd like to get Alabama at or above the Mason Dixon Line. It wouldn't make sense to do it that way, but I feel like anything around GA and below/west is just home field for them in a "neutral site game".
Why would we play them in Pennsylvania?
I've heard that central Pennsylvania is Alabama.
Good ol Pennsyltucky
"Pennsylvania is Philadelphia and Pittsburgh and Alabama in between" - James Carville
I never said anything about Pennsylvania... but I was simply using the Mason Dixon Line as a reference to a place that's not considered "deeply southern".
But I think a game in DC (which is pretty close to the line) would help alleviate some heavy home field vibes Alabama usually gets by seemingly playing all of their "neutral site" games in Atlanta.
It'd be like in the past when VT was in the Big East and we played UVA at a neutral site every 2 years in Charlottesville.
The Mason Dixon line forms the border between Maryland and Pennsylvania. Hence, you pretty much recommended playing them in a neutral site game in Pennsylvania. I'm assuming that kevvvin understood what you meant, and that their post was somewhat of a joke.
50 miles...
My bad.... I forgot that there aren't about 10 other states that are between Maryland and Canada.... /s
So you meant that you wanted to play them in Rhode Island? /s
Or Delaware
90% or more of Delaware is south of the Mason-Dixon. And the part that's north of it is Wilmington. Blech.
It follows the border between Maryland and Delaware south to the corner of DE. It doesn't extend on a line fromthe Maryland-Pennsylvania line across DE. All of DE is north of the line. (There's a transpeninsular marker at the north end of Ocean City on the state line that serves as the eastern boundary of the M & D line)
This will probably blow people's gaskets...
In my "Regional Geography" (not sure of the exact title anymore) elective class, my teacher during my Senior year at Tech said that if the Mason Dixon line were drawn now, it would split the Kentucky/Tennessee border and go down and split the North Carolina / South Carolina border.
Apparently according to demographics, Virginia's not really considered a southern state anymore.
By who?
I grew up south of the east-west line between MD and DE. When I got to VT, the NOVA kids tried to tell me I was a northerner simply because I was from MD, but was actually south of them. And the Richmond kids tried to tell me I was a southerner even though I was actually north of them. Some clumped all of MD into one B'more pot, and some looked at the "line" as the dividing factor. It was interesting.
I get the "Virginia is not a southern state" a lot from people nowadays. I think there are parts of the state (NoVa, Richmond, Norfolk) that are definitely not southern, but you venture outside of those areas and it gets real southern real fast.
64 is almost the dividing line. Almost.
In my mind, that's why the term Mid-Atlantic is important. There aren't just 2 options....
That teacher is on crack, Kentucky would be in the south more than Tenn. Nashville is becoming very trendy, but KY is still deep south.
Wait. What? How did I spend my entire childhood in Maryland and not know that the M-D also separated Maryland from Delaware? I was always taught that the line only separated Maryland from Pennsylvania. My entire K-12 education is a lie. I need a drink.
You know the Western Shore doesn't teach anything about the Eastern shore except
Beach, chicks, and crabs. Hmmm, yep I can see how they go together.
Sometimes in that order........
We have our own crabs on the Western Shore. And Virginia Beach or the Delaware Beaches are a shorter drive than OC. All I really ever knew y'all had was chicken farms.
There are creams that can help with that.
I was only making a joke about the common misconception that the Mason Dixon line is much further south than it actually is. I knew that you didn't want to play them in Pennsylvania. I agree that playing in ATL is a de facto home game for them.
I know you were, I figured people wouldn't be so literal when I mentioned Mason Dixon Line, but I couldn't think of another geographic symbol that suggests separation between the Deep South and the North.
north of where the bbq sauce is yellow?
Unless something really changes the college football landscape between now and then (which is entirely possible), SEC & ACC teams need these games to give themselves 2 P5 OOC games due to their 8 game conference schedules - and there will be significant disincentives and challenges to canceling them.
Another thing these three series (and SEC teams scheduling a bunch of other P5 home & home series) seems to imply is both conferences (or at least VT, Bama, Ole Miss and, if rumors are correct, South Carolina) have concluded 9 game conference schedules in the ACC and SEC aren't going to happen anytime in the near or even distant future.
At least it gives us some time to fire up the endorsement machine. Can we go ahead and get these kids in some cute Volvo commercials or something?
And I bet Bama has already dropped off bags of cash to them in preparation.
And we haven't made any offers on 5 stars in pop warner, yet. Fire the staff!
And Saban will be about 83. /s
Probably happen right around the same time as the badger home and home
So....never?
We'll see what college football looks like at that stage. 15 years off, it could be drastically different.
That's targeting.
And missing!
I'm hearing we're adding Flip Six Fifty to the playbook for QP4.
Saban will be in his prime by then.
So will Dwayne Lawson so joke's on them
I'll get to use by BeatBama shirt again! I hope it still fits in 15 more years.
Hell, I'll be retired and living abroad with my 3rd wife by then.
this is gonna get real awkward when your current wife reads this...
Might be the point to get the ball moving in that direction?
Reminds me of one of my favorite recent SNL Sketches: Meet Your Second Wife.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJEAGd1bQuc
Not if his current wife *is* his third wife.
Nick Saban will have retired and then come back to coach for Virginia Tech and we will have won our 4th CFP by then
You get this scenario from simming some NCAA 14? I like it either way.
Is this where I say We Want BAMA?
We Want Bama Fifteen Years From Now
Always
Great news. Now lets get rid of division 2 games
We haven't played a Division 2 team in decades. Possibly ever. And assuming you mean Division 1 FCS games, you'll be glad to know that they're much less frequent on our future schedules.
Edit: welp, as soon as I say that, VT drops a press release stating that they've added 3 such games in the next 5 years.
division 2 is what is used to be called. sorry for not being current. my point is stop playing teams below our level.
D-1AA...
And playing those teams is how you get W's, and experience, and prep for the conference games.
Before 1973, there was the "University Division" and the "College Division". In 1973, the NCAA renamed the "University Division" to "Division 1" and split the "College Division" into two: "Division 2" for schools that wanted to offer scholarships, and "Division 3" for those that didn't.
In 1978, the NCAA further divided "Division 1" for football only: "Division 1-A" for schools that met certain attendance requirements and wanted to offer more scholarships, and "Division 1-AA" for schools that either didn't meet those attendance requirements or wanted to spend less on scholarships. In 2006, these were renamed to "Division 1 FBS" and "Division 1 FCS", respectively.
We're playing the entire SEC in 2025?
Are we switching conferences? Or we on loan for a year, sorta like a try before you buy program?
2037 at Ole Miss
.... There are going to be players in that game who are going to be conceived tonight
Oh, and tailgating in The Grove will be real fun
Battle Royale Game in 2025.
You get 1 member of the coaching staff from every school, then fill out the rosters based on position/school ie:
QB: Vandy
RB: Bama
WR: Tenn
TE: Ole Miss
IOL: T A&M
OT: Miss St
DT: Florida
DE: Georgia
LB: Kentucky
CB: LSU
S: Arkansas
K: Auburn
P: Missouri
KR: Sakerlina
by then we should have Michael Vick's or Tyrod's son playing for us....wait do they have children? Any new Fullers? or Edmunds?
Vick's first kid is in high school. Could be Michael Vick III in that game.
We offered that kid already, right?
Shame there's no Roman Numeral for "P"
However many generations down the line we could have had a MVP.
VIRGINIA TECH FUTURE OPPONENT ADDITIONS/CHANGES
9/26/2020 North Alabama
10/1/2022 Wofford
9/23/2023 at Marshall
8/31/2024 at SEC
9/7/2024 Marshall
8/30/2025 SEC (home)
9/20/2025 James Madison
9/6/2031 at Old Dominion
9/12/2031 Wisconsin
9/4/2032 Ole Miss
9/18/2032 at Wisconsin
9/2/2034 Alabama
9/1/2035 at Alabama
9/5/2037 at Ole Miss
lol at still listing Wisconsin
Maybe by then, most conferences would have merged and we'll be having home and homes with about 6 SEC opponents every year...
Wow....just realized I'll be 74-75 when these games are played (if they're played).
If you make it that long.....good luck
Is it just me or have I not seen that North Alabama addition until now
and is it just me or have I never even heard of North Alabama, are they D2?
They were D2 and are now FCS.
The North Alabama addition was announced in the same press release as the 3 SEC series, as were a number of other FCS/G5 games.
I'd love to see that year's OOC schedule to be North Alabama, Troy and UAB...all teams from Alabama without any of them being Alabama...or Auburn
I'll personally eat a UVA hat on live stream if Alabama football actually plays a game in Lane Stadium. going on record now.
Might want to decide on a sauce. Bama played at Duke as part of their 1-1.
Well, you've got plenty of time to pick out a hat.
TKP never forgets.
A1 makes everything taste good.
Except steak.
Edit: I need to clarify, this isn't entirely true. A1 can make bad steak somewhat palatable.
just knowing this guy is out there somewhere!!!!
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