Virginia Tech football’s 2024 schedule was revealed on Wednesday by the ACC, highlighted by the program’s first West Coast road trip in the revamped conference in an October visit to Stanford and its biggest home game against Clemson to kick off November.
Tech found out the dates for its remaining six games this fall, filling in the blanks left from previously announced non-conference and Thursday/Friday night contests.
The highlights include an Oct. 5 trip to play new ACC addition Stanford, a highly-anticipated Nov. 9 home tilt against annual league power Clemson and the customary end-of-season rivalry game against Virginia in Blacksburg on Nov. 30.
The Hokies also host Georgia Tech on Oct. 26, followed by a visit to Syracuse on Nov. 2. In between the Clemson and Virginia games is a trip to Duke on Nov. 23.
Because of the way the calendar shakes out, the Hokies have two open weeks — one on Oct. 12 ahead of the Oct. 17 Thursday night game against Boston College and one in the middle of November on the 16th.
Here’s a rundown of the schedule:
| DATE | OPPONENT | TIME, TV |
| Apr. 13 |  Maroon 21, Orange 14
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| Aug. 31 Loss (A) |  Vanderbilt 34, VT 27 (OT) 
Record: 0-1 (0-0 ACC)
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Noon ET, ESPN |
| Sept. 7 WIN (H) | VT 31, Marshall 14 
Record: 1-1 (0-0 ACC)
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4:30 p.m. ET, CW |
| Sept. 14 WIN (A) | VT 37, ODU 17 
Record: 2-1 (0-0 ACC)
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6 p.m. ET, ESPN+ |
| Sept. 21 Loss (H) |  Rutgers 26, VT 23
Record: 2-2 (0-0 ACC)
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3:30 p.m. ET, ACCN |
| Sept. 27 (Fri.) Loss (A) |  No. 7 Miami 38, VT 34
Record: 2-3 (0-1 ACC)
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7:30 p.m. ET, ESPN |
| Oct. 5 WIN (A) | VT 31, Stanford 7 
Record: 3-3 (1-1 ACC)
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3:30 p.m. ET, ACCN |
| Oct. 12 | ||
| Oct. 17 (Thu.) WIN (H) | VT 42, BC 21 
Record: 4-3 (2-1 ACC)
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7:30 p.m. ET, ESPN |
| Oct. 26 WIN (H) | VT 21, GT 6 
Record: 5-3 (3-1 ACC)
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Noon ET, ACCN |
| Nov. 2 Loss (A) |  Syracuse 38, VT 31 (OT)
Record: 5-4 (3-2 ACC)
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Noon ET, CW |
| Nov. 9 Loss (H) |  No. 23 Clemson 24, VT 14
Record: 5-5 (3-3 ACC)
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3:30 p.m. ET, ESPN |
| Nov. 16 | ||
| Nov. 23 Loss (A) |  Duke 31, VT 28
Record: 5-6 (3-4 ACC)
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8 p.m. ET, ACCN |
| Nov. 30 WIN (H) | VT 37, UVa 17 
Record: 6-6 (4-4 ACC)
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8 p.m. ET, ACCN |
| Jan. 3 Loss (A) |  Minnesota 24, VT 10
Record: 6-7 (4-4 ACC)
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7:30 p.m. ET, ESPN |
The trip to Stanford will be historic. The Hokies have never played a regular season game that far West before, having only ventured as far as Canyon, Texas, in the panhandle to play West Texas State in 1959.
It’ll be Virginia Tech’s second game in California. The Hokies beat Air Force in the 2002 San Francisco Bowl at Pacific Bell Park.
Tech’s only previous meeting with Stanford was a 40-12 loss in the 2011 Orange Bowl, a Cardinal team quarterbacked by Andrew Luck and coached by Jim Harbaugh.
Georgia Tech returns to the schedule after a one-year hiatus. A former Coastal Division rival, the Yellow Jackets played the Hokies every year but the COVID season from 2004-2022.
Although Syracuse will be breaking in new coach Fran Brown, the trip up north in late October should be a challenging one. Virginia Tech is 2-7 all-time in the JMA Wireless Dome (formerly the Carrier Dome), losing on its last two visits there in 2016 (31-17) and 2002 (50-42 in three overtimes). Tech has lost as a ranked team to unranked Syracuse in the Dome five times in the last 30 years.
In a unique scheduling quirk, Clemson comes back to Blacksburg for a third straight time, with its first trip since 2020. The Hokies have lost six straight to the Tigers; their last win in the series was a 41-23 drubbing at Clemson in 2007.
Duke will be the second team Tech faces with a new coach, with former Miami coach Manny Diaz taking over for Texas A&M-bound Mike Elko.
The Virginia contest to close out the season will be the first time the rivalry game will be played in Blacksburg with a full crowd since 2018. COVID restrictions in 2020 limited attendance to the players' family members, with an announced crowd of just 250. The 2022 game was canceled after the tragic Charlottesville shooting that killed three UVa football players.
Tech's non-conference schedule — Aug. 31 at Vanderbilt, Sept. 7 vs. Marshall, Sept. 14. at Old Dominion, Sept. 21 vs. Rutgers — had been set far in advance, with a Friday, Sept. 27 game at Miami and a Thursday, Oct. 17 game against Boston College announced on Tuesday.
Here are links to complete information on all ACC football schedules, via TheACC.com: