Opener against Boise State moved to Labor Day Night
Staff Report
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ESPN, along with the Virginia Tech Athletics Department, officially announced Wednesday that Tech’s football game against Boise State at FedEx Field in Landover, Md., has been moved to Labor Day (Monday, Sept. 6) to open the 2010 season.
Kickoff for the game, scheduled to be televised to a national audience on ESPN, is set for 8 p.m. at the home field of the Washington Redskins.
The game had originally been scheduled for Oct. 2 (Saturday).
This will mark the first time Boise State and Virginia Tech have faced each other in football and it will be Tech’s second game at FedEx Field (Southern Cal, 2004).
Tech will follow the BSU game with a pair of non-conference games at Lane Stadium/Worsham Field against James Madison five days later on Sept. 11 and East Carolina (Sept. 18) before opening ACC play at Boston College on Sept. 25. In October, the Hokies will play three more home games – Central Michigan (Oct. 9), Wake Forest (Oct. 16) and Duke (Oct. 23) – after opening the month at NC State on Oct. 2. After an open weekend (Oct. 30), defending ACC champion Georgia Tech rolls into Blacksburg for a Thursday night clash on Nov. 4.
A tough three-game stretch concludes the regular season, as the Hokies will close at North Carolina (Nov. 13) and Miami (Nov. 20) and then at home against in-state rival Virginia on Nov. 27 for Senior Day.
New on the schedule this year as non-conference opponents are Boise State, JMU and Central Michigan. This will be the first meeting between Tech and both Boise State and Central Michigan. Tech leads the series against JMU 6-0, last playing in 2003. From an ACC standpoint, Maryland comes off the schedule this year and is replaced by Wake Forest for the next two seasons.
Seven of the 12 teams on Tech’s schedule played in bowls last year: Boise State (Fiesta), East Carolina (Liberty), Central Michigan (GMAC), Georgia Tech (Orange), Boston College (Emerald), Miami (Champs Sports) and North Carolina (Meineke Car Care).
Once again this season, the league is broken into two separate divisions – the Atlantic (Maryland, Clemson, NC State, Wake Forest, Boston College and Florida State) and Coastal (Virginia, Georgia Tech, North Carolina, Duke, Miami and Virginia Tech) – with the two division winners meeting on Dec. 4 in the Dr. Pepper ACC Championship Game in Charlotte, N.C.
Times for most games will be made available as the season gets closer.
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