The Virginia Tech Hokies will host The Citadel to open the 2027 football season, Tech Sideline reported Sunday night.
Updated 2027 Virginia Tech football nonconference schedule.#Hokies https://t.co/mpkyJAtNOY pic.twitter.com/70i2cTCPhj
— Tech Sideline (@TechSideline) June 22, 2026
The game appears to be slated for Saturday, August 28, 2027, at Lane Stadium in Blacksburg, Va. The contest would finalize Virginia Tech’s non-ACC slate for the 2027 campaign, joining a Sept. 4 home game with Liberty and a Nov. 6 date at Notre Dame.
The Hokies and Bulldogs have not faced each other since 1953.
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So does that mean that fbs is moving to a week 0 start in 2027? Don’t know how they would be able to do this.
Week 0 is being opened up to allow everyone a second off week as we go to 24 (or more?) rounds of playoffs?
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It certainly would allow for unexpected weather events and other in-season cancellations and rescheduling. Also it might take some pressure off of dropping conference games, or adding in a pac-12 style flex week.
Right. The change is not official yet.
I don’t have any connection to these schools, but I just wanted to say that picture goes entirely too hard to be attached to an article about scheduling an FCS team. That is all.
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They cancelled ODU for this game.
Are comments now disabled on all new articles/posts for anyone else? This is the last of the new posts that appears to have the comments available
I disabled them temporarily to halt the same old back and forth. Many comments were also deleted.
@Kevin Kelley Thanks for confirming, sorry to hear.