The South Carolina Gamecocks and Virginia Tech Hokies have canceled their future home-and-home football series, according to a report from VTScoop247.
South Carolina and Virginia Tech were previously scheduled to begin a home-and-home series at Williams-Brice Stadium in Columbia, S.C., on Sept. 16, 2034. The series was set to conclude at Lane Stadium in Blacksburg, Va., the following season on Sept. 15, 2035.
Virginia Tech's future schedules website has reflected this for while now but…
Virginia Tech and South Carolina mutually agreed to cancel their 2034-2035 games back on Dec. 17. #VTU #Hokies pic.twitter.com/YLMmbQLkHt
— Doug Bowman (@DougBowman247) January 29, 2026
The series was canceled following both teams’ respective leagues adopting nine-game conference football schedules beginning in 2026. Both the ACC and SEC also require each league member to play at least one power foe outside of conference play for a total of 10 each season.
South Carolina, a member of the SEC, already has an annual power foe from the ACC — Clemson — on its schedule. Virginia Tech is slated to face Alabama in both the 2034 and 2035 seasons, which makes the South Carolina series unnecessary with nine conference games.
Several other high profile home-and-home series have been axed over the past year. Those include Cal-BYU, Georgia-Louisville, Georgia-NC State, Miami-South-Carolina, Alabama-West Virginia, Nebraska-Tennessee, NC State-Florida, Ole Miss-BYU, Ole Miss-USC, Cal-Florida, Texas Tech-Colorado, and others.
With the cancellation, South Carolina has one non-conference opening in 2034 and two in 2035. Virginia Tech now has two available slots in those seasons.
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There will be more & more & more of P4 OOC games in CFP.
Yet the VT-Wisconsin series first scheduled in 2366 B.C. that has been delayed can stay?
Looking forward to the next postponement…
this game was moved to accomodate the 124 team playoff which will start week 3 in 2034
Thank God we expanded conference schedules so we can see South Carolina play Mississippi State and Virginia Tech play Boston College on a more common basis rather than interesting OOC matchups between power conference teams that rarely play one another.
Gerry pardon for using word fan & I am a fan of expanded conference schedules like Michigan vs USC, Georgia vs Oklahoma, Oklahoma State vs Arizona & Syracuse vs California.
@Dan NW-IL=MI I can’t tell if you’re sarcastic or not about Syracuse vs California.
I’ve been saying the same since all this started. Who wants to see more Vanderbilt vs Arkansas and less Georgia vs Clemson? You have to be a simpleton to want those lame conference games.
Joseph Rodriguez I am being creative about Syracuse vs California not sarcastic.
Illininoles97 Scheduling P4 OOC games is becoming even more difficult & you have to deal with it buddy.
Furthermore Illininoles97 Georgia Tech is by far more important to Georgia than Clemson.
In terms of which rivalry is more important to Georgia fans, comparing Clemson to Georgia Tech isn’t the comparison.
It’s comparing Clemson and Georgia Tech to Missouri, Oklahoma or Texas.
As a real Georgia fan, not someone who has 73 favorite teams all of which happen to be the teams that are doing well at the moment, like a specific poster on this site, Georgia fans would much rather see the Dawgs play Clemson than Texas A&M. No offense to A&M. But Georgia and Clemson is a special game.
If expanding conferences means we lose games like Georgia v. Clemson forever, then that’s bad for college football. Because Georgia v. Missouri will never replace the Dawgs and Tigers.
SEC! SEC! SEC! Pardon me for playing favorites.
World’s largest tailgate party Florida is My favorite for Georgia.
Dan nobody cares if Georgia Florida is your favorite. People are saying they would rather have more big non conference games and less boring conference games like Miami vs wake forest. People want to see home and home series they haven’t seen or rarely see.
Illininoles97:
I can live without Georgia-Clemson
I can live without Oklahoma State-Oklahoma
I can live without Missouri-Kansas
&
I can live without Notre Dame-USC
Money is running CFB while traditions are fading into quicksand.
Well, REAL college football fans shouldn’t have to live without those games.
Those games made the game what it is.
All REAL fans know that.
On any given Saturday
I will be happy to watch Northwestern at Indiana on FOX Big Noon Saturday.
I will be happy to watch UCLA at Michigan on CBS at 3:30PM.
I will be happy to watch Purdue at Illinois on NBC at 7:30PM.
I really enjoy watching conferences games regardless of popularity.
Dan, Miami vs Florida= bad
Miami vs Stanford= good.
Glad I understand your messed up thinking. Just out of curiosity, do you like how New Year’s Day has what, 3 games or do you like how it was back in say 96 when there was about 8 games on New Year’s Day?
Florida vs Miami=September
I am a fan of three games for current New Year’s Day CFB format.
Dan I have a feeling of all the people on this page you and maybe two other people prefer the three games only on New Year’s Day and not the traditional 6-8 games of 30 years ago. It really shows your just a fanboy and will accept any crap the ncaa and espn throw at you and you will sit like a seal and clap your hands in approval. The entire system is going to or already is crap and you my friend eat it up.
Illininoles97 I greatly appreciate it to please end this conversation right now I am finished with this article.
Possibly Virginia Tech will be in the SEC by then.
Virginia Tech University?
That’s from SC’s end. The full name of the school is Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.