Virginia Tech Gets Miami On Friday, Boston College On Thursday In 2024

By: Andy Bitter | Senior Staff Writer
Two non-Saturday games highlight the 2024 schedule for Virginia Tech: a Friday nighter at Miami and a Thursday night home game against Boston College. (Ivan Morozov)

Miami’s back on the Virginia Tech football schedule, with a Friday night date in South Florida in 2024, and Boston College will come to Lane Stadium for a Thursday nighter, the Hokies’ first mid-week game against the Eagles since the infamous 2007 Matt Ryan game in the rain.

The ACC announced the weeknight pairings on Tuesday as part of its three-day 2024 football schedule rollout, revealing all of the season’s Thursday and Friday night matchups.

The Hokies will travel to Miami on Sept. 27 and host Boston College on Oct. 17.

The Friday nighter marks the return of Miami to the schedule as a protected rival in the league’s new format. In the 3-5-5 model that lasted only a year in 2023, the teams did not meet for the first time since 1992.

Typically an October or November matchup, the Hurricanes and Hokies have not played in September since 2009. It’ll be the ACC opener for both teams.

It’s Tech’s first Friday night game since the 2022 season opener at Old Dominion. The last time the program played a league game on a Friday was Sept. 3, 2021, vs. No. 10 North Carolina, the season-opener after the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Hokies are back in a Thursday night slot after ending a three-game losing streak in those games with a 38-10 pounding of Syracuse last year. 

Tech has played six Thursday night games against Boston College, one fewer than Georgia Tech, going 3-3 in those contests. The last, regrettably, was the 2007 collapse in the rain in Lane Stadium, when No. 2 Eagles scored twice in the final two minutes, including a 24-yard strike from Ryan to running back Andre Callender with 11 seconds left, to beat the No. 8 Hokies 14-10.

Tuesday’s reveal means six dates are known for Virginia Tech’s 2024 schedule, with a seventh an almost certainty. The Hokies open the season at Vanderbilt on Aug. 31. Tech’s future schedules page lists games vs. Marshall (Sept. 7), at Old Dominion (Sept. 14) and vs. Rutgers (Sept. 21). The Virginia game is always played in the season’s final week, which is Nov. 30 this season. That’ll be in Lane Stadium.

The Hokies’ schedule also features home games against Clemson and Georgia Tech and road contests at Duke, Stanford and Syracuse. The ACC will release the full schedule on Wednesday on an ACC Network show that lasts from 5-7 p.m. ET.

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  1. This is almost as exciting as – Selection Sunday; Bowl Selections; or waiting to see who won the NH primary.

  2. First Miami game in September since 2009…

    Brings back great memories of Jacory Heisman going 9-for-25 in a complete beating.

  3. Section 7 crew heading down to South Beach on Sept 27 week for Pry’s team to put little Hurricane butt whooping’ session on Mario’s boyz

  4. The game at Stanford will be interesting to see where it falls on the schedule. Watch it will be a 10pm game on the East coast.

  6. Thanks for article with the heads-up on the schedule but as you said the other day it is so silly to drag out the schedule over several. days

  7. That Matty Ice game in the rain is by far the WORST experience related to sports I’ve ever been through….dreadful

    1. The stadium was going crazy and then it got quiet as a library and all the sudden I felt soaked.

      1. I was there, on the west side, oposite the EZ. The play seemed like it took forever to develop. Happened right in front ofme. Noise was deafening. Then, utter silence.

        1. Also there that night. Seems everybody, incl the author of this article, loves, to talk about Ryan’s desparation heave that night to win a game that, frankly, was meaningless. Nobody talks about the game that really mattered. That is, the ACC championship game in Tampa Bay, in which Tech’s defense put clamps on ‘Matty Ice’ & he melted away to defeat. Was there for that also.

          1. Sure but crippled any National Championship hopes we may or may not have had (don’t remember enough to know if it was actually on track)

      3. Someone pulled the fire alarm around 2am in my hotel in Christiansburg that night too. And I was having major work issues at that time – that whole weekend I didn’t know if I would still have a job on Monday (i did). So all in all it was a freaking horrible weekend.

  8. Maybe that’s good, catching Miami early. Cam Ward may not be fully acclimated by then.

      1. We still might catch them with that. They normally completely fall apart after their first loss.

      2. Yeah, with Miami, they have seemed like a house of fire early…and then they stumble and quit. Not sure if it is a good or bad thing to get them early.

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