West Virginia, Virginia Tech to open 2017 season at FedEx Field

Keeping up with the trend the last few days of announcing future college football match ups, the Virginia Tech Hokies and West Virginia Mountaineers announced on Tuesday that they will open up the 2017 season against one another, inside the confines of FedEx Field in the nation’s capital.

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Both West Virginia AD Oliver Luck and Virginia Tech AD Whit Babcock issued statements in a press release on the pairing.

From Luck:

"“West Virginia University had a great experience at FedExField in 2012, and we are looking forward to playing there again against Virginia Tech,” said WVU athletic director Oliver Luck in a statement. “Not only do our players enjoy playing in NFL stadiums, West Virginia has a lot of alumni living in the Washington, D.C. metro area and playing at a great venue like FedExField gives our fans a road game that is in close proximity. West Virginia and Virginia Tech have had a great historical rivalry over the years, and it’s great that the two schools can renew the series, starting in Washington, D.C. in 2017.”"

From Babcock:

"“It is an exciting matchup for both schools’ fans to look forward to,” said Tech AD Whit Babcock. “I appreciate the work of Coach Beamer and Associate AD John Ballein in arranging this extremely strong non-conference matchup. Not only will the game renew a passionate rivalry, it will also be played at a site that is centered in a major alumni base for both schools.”"

The last time that these schools met, they were both members of the old Big East. Now neither are affiliated with what is now known as the American Athletic Conference, as West Virginia now resides in the Big 12, and Virginia Tech the ACC.

This, however, has been a rivalry that the fan bases has been hoping to be renewed for quite some time, and now they will get to see it once again to open the season in three years.

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