As expected, East Carolina has cancelled a 2020 trip to Lane Stadium in favor of a game in Atlanta with Georgia State. This comes as a response to Virginia Tech canceling future road trips to ECU, including one in 2019, which led to the Hokies scheduling a second FCS game against Rhode Island.
https://twitter.com/AndyBitterVT/status/1136307503334137857
With the cancellation of the East Carolina game, Virginia Tech’s 2020 home schedule now looks like this…
Liberty, September 5
Penn State, September 12
Boston College, TBD
Georgia Tech, TBD
Miami, TBD
Virginia, TBD
Virginia Tech isn’t scheduled to play an FCS opponent in 2020, and if the athletic department wants to play seven home games in that season, they may have no choice but to go the FCS route on such short notice. Whit Babcock has been trying to schedule as few FCS opponents as possible for the upcoming seasons. Here are Tech’s upcoming games with FCS opponents…
2019: Furman and Rhode Island
2020: None
2021: Richmond
2022: None
2023: None
2024: None
2025: None
2026: VMI
2027: None
2028: None
2029: None
2030: None
Virginia Tech is also scheduled to host East Carolina in 2022 and 2024. With six home games on the schedule for 2020, it’s also possible that Tech could choose to play a road game next season in exchange for a return game in Lane Stadium for a later year, perhaps as a replacement for the Pirates in 2022.
Click here for our future schedules page.Update
The original report may not be quite accurate, as Michael Niziolek reports below.https://twitter.com/michaelniziolek/status/1136349058338045952
Still, it appears that the game VT-ECU is still likely be canceled. The Pirates currently have five non-conference games scheduled, including a matchup with Norfolk State on September 19. It appears to be only a matter of time before their meeting with the Hokies is officially canceled.
https://twitter.com/michaelniziolek/status/1136368458537611265