The ACC announced today that the previously-postponed football game between Virginia Tech and Virginia has been rescheduled for Saturday, December 12, 2020.
The game, which was originally scheduled to have the prime 7:30 ABC slot on September 19, was postponed on September 12 because Virginia Tech decided they could not field a competitive team safely due to COVID-19 positive tests, contact tracing and quarantine, and injuries.
“It became pretty apparent as we approached the weekend and our mock preparations for the first game … that we were not going to be able to safely play a football game,” Virginia Tech head coach Justin Fuente said on Monday night’s Tech Talk Live radio program.
At the time of postponement, no makeup date was announced, until today.
A key point is that the ACC did not officially schedule the ACC Championship Game for December 19. The conference announced in July that the game would be on December 12 or December 19, and even with today’s announcement of a conference game on December 12, the league did not commit to a December 19 championship game date.
We have updated the schedules on our site. For a look at the current schedule, visit our Virginia Tech football schedule page or our home page.
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this season is lost for nothing
Cole Blaker should be your TE for this Saturday nights game if you want to win!
Good Luck Hokies
I never understood why they didn’t start the season earlier and leave a month at the tail end for rescheduling.
Players had not been practicing and were not ready to start earlier.
Being 2020 a major snowstorm is going to hit that day
Or locusts. Being that its 2020…
LOL. Or the murder hornets go into their winter mutation.
how about:
national election for president and all Congressional seats end in ties” ! ! !
If VT and UVA are out of contention for the championship (as will likely be the case), hold both games Dec 12. Then again, we could be undefeated with a 2-0 record on Dec 12.
If VT and UVA are not in the hunt for the championship there might not be a need to move the championship game, they could be both held on the same day.
I should have read your reply before posting my own. Thinking the same thing.
I do that all the time. No worries.
Hope that is the last change in schedule. Good to have that open date before Clemson.