Hokies fill out ’13 schedule with game at East Carolina; schools extend series through 2020
Virginia Tech announced Tuesday it filled out its 2013 schedule with a road game at East Carolina and also extended the series with the Pirates through 2020.
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As part of the agreement, the Hokies will play at Greenville in 2013, ’15, ’17 and ’19 and host the Pirates in ’14, ’16, ’18 and ’20.
The teams were originally scheduled to play a home-and-home series in 2012 and ’13, but they moved it back, both to accommodate the Hokies opening the 2013 season with Alabama and to clear room in preparation for a nine-game ACC schedule.
But the ACC backed out of its commitment to a nine-game league schedule last month, forcing Tech to scramble to fill out its non-conference slate next year with Pittsburgh, previously a non-conference game, becoming a league game.
Virginia Tech will now open next season against Alabama in Atlanta on Aug. 31, host Western Carolina on Sept. 7, travel to East Carolina on Sept. 14 and host Marshall on Sept. 21.
The eight ACC teams Tech will face will be announced at a later date.
October 16, 2012 - 4:37 PM
ECU is often an underrated program, but they usually gives Tech fits every time they play. I remember that year they actually led Tech by a couple of touchdowns, I think, and Tech roared back to win it. It was a frustrating game, that one, and then there was that summer where ECU blocked a punt and returned it for touchdown, stunning the world.
I guess we can say, “Welcome back, pirates! Arrgh!”
ECU is a relatively consistent game plan for us – again, something Frank Beamer loves – years & years of sameness. Not to mention, it puts us in a game every other year in a region where Beamer finally thinks he has gas money to recruit – the eastern half of North Carolina.
Upside? The ECU is pretty darn good, so props to them on that. Also, the whole Purple Haze intro thing – don’t know if they still do that – is bizarrely interesting.
I long ago gave up on ever seeing a meaningful OOC game in Lane during September. ECU? Fine, whatever…
Sorry, the ECU BAND is pretty darn good, etc…
Well we have OSU in 2015 and Wisconsin in 2016. Then there’s our competition in the coastal. Looks like Kansas State got dropped. Not a heck of a lot else to get excited about schedule wise.
All I’ve heard recently (since the ACC went back to the 8 game plan) regarding ECU is that their schedule is already full for the next couple of years. What moves did the Pirates make to make room for the Hokies?
“I long ago gave up on ever seeing a meaningful OOC game in Lane during September. ECU? Fine, whatever…”
Gee CR, in the last 10 years I’ve seen LSU, Texas A&M and Nebraska in Lane during September. One year we played Marshall when they were ranked #16 (Byron Leftwich). We played WVU when they were ranked #6 on Oct 2nd, that’s almost September. Where were you?
CR and those like him will not be happy until we play Alabama, LSU, Texas, and USC every year. We will have to beat all them, go undefeated in conference play too. Then we had better not only win a national championship every year, but we must win by 50 points!!!
Crooked Road needs help. He now is blaming Coach Beamer for the schedule. If Coach Beamer had anything to do with the schedule, I don’t think he would have set up our next three opponents with a week off before playing the Hokies.
SPig, I know you assign Frank Beamer lots of credibility, but I think you’re stretching it juuuust a little bit to think Beamer controls the scheduling for other ACC football programs. To also pretend that Frank Beamer does not have massive input into the scheduling of his own team, when every other coach in every other sport at VT and nearly every college in the nation does? Well, that’s stretching credibility in the other direction. I gave the reasons why Beamer likes ECU as an opponent. Choose to ignore them if you wish, no problem.
THe NIck Sabans of the world may have some control but that is not the dorm. Do you have an inside track on all the teams in the nation and how they schedule? As far as Frank Beamer’s credibility, it is superior to yours. I did not say Frank Beamer controls anyone schedules. Please go back and read my comments. The ACC sets the conference schedule.
You must have alot of time on your hands. You know all and tell all.