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 TSL Coverage: Click here | 3:00 PM Game Highlights |
| Aug. 31 |  at Vanderbilt | TBD |
| Sep. 7 |  MARSHALL | TBD |
| Sep. 14 |  at ODU | TBD |
| Sep. 21 |  RUTGERS | TBD |
| Sep. 27 (Fri.) |  at Miami | TBD |
| Oct. 5 |  at Stanford | TBD |
| Oct. 12 | ||
| Oct. 17 (Thu.) |  BOSTON COLLEGE | TBD |
| Oct. 26 |  GEORGIA TECH | TBD |
| Nov. 2 |  at Syracuse | TBD |
| Nov. 9 |  CLEMSON | TBD |
| Nov. 16 | ||
| Nov. 23 |  at Duke | TBD |
| Nov. 30 |  VIRGINIA | TBD |
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:
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Really manageable schedule overall. Back to back road trips to Miami and Stanford will be challenging and not great to be playing Miami in late September and having to travel up to Syracuse in November (at least it’s in a dome) but those aren’t huge complaints.
If they can do well through the first of the half of the schedule, the second half could set up really well with 4 of the 6 games being at home.
Back-to-back trips to Miami and Stanford???? Thanks, ACC.
Interesting thinking that the ACC wanted a ‘name’ team to be Stanford’s ACC opener.
Although health prevents us from flying now, as long time away game attendees, we were accustomed to this kind off treatment from ACC. For years, they would send us to that God forsaken Chestnut Hill and then to Miami in back to back weeks. Just one of the numerous ways ACC’s been crapping on Hokie Nation for decades.
Rutgers, Miami, Clemson, and Georgia Tech can / will give Virginia Tech problems this year. I think it’ll be a great success if they can go 2-2 against that bunch and only lay one egg against the eight teams they should be favored to beat by a good margin.
My thoughts as well.
Very manageable schedule. Need to win the games we should win, but having an extra day for the Miami to Stanford turnaround isn’t the end of the world.
last half of the schedule in particular is very manageable. If we can steal a win vs. Clemson or at Miami and beat Rutgers we have a chance to have a very fine season.
16-0 baby!!!!
A fella can dream, can’t he?
Or enjoy some “funny” brownies. 🙂
El Paso is further west than the Texas Panhandle.
That wasn’t the regular season.
Farther
I’m not your farther.
We’re going to whip the Cuse worse next season than we did this year (38-10).
History of an old rivalry is nice, but it’s no longer what it was and we will separate this coming season.
I don’t know what Indian Shaman they brought in and what they buried under that field before the asphalt and carpet went down but the juju in that place is VERY hard to beat. It took Michael Vick talent to overcome it in a 4th quarter comeback. As good as Randall and Evans were and with the talent the Hokies had on both sides of the ball versus the lack thereof on the part of Syracuse… they still lost to the Orangemen.
This schedule has a 1998 flavor to it… traveling to Miami in Sept (Win) Hosting Rutsgers (Win) and trundling up to the Jiffy Pop Dome and finding a way to lose to a team that is not at our level… Until I see the Sunday Boxscore and the win is in the books, I will not assume that we can clear that hurdle, but if we do….. 16-0 baby!
Cupcake. 🙂
For the record, it’s called the Jiffy Pop Dome.
Affectionately known as…the place is a joke. I have it on authority of a former Tech player which played in it twice.
According to ESPN, we play Vandy twice next fall – on 8/31 and 9/2! Geesh…. don’t they even look at this stuff before they publish???
I don’t care how awful Stanford is, I don’t see us winning that game
Stanford game is easier than it may appear. They play Clemson the week before and ND the week after. They are not very good right now either.
Andrew Luck is no longer there … they have hot rock bottom but any game these days is scary… as they say on any given day
That’s the name of the song I wrote about them, “Hot Rock Bottom.” Streaming on all your favorite sources. 😁
You wrote that? That was my favorite song that Spinal Tap did!!!!!
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I do, so long as Pry can get the travel schedule he needs.
Anyone up for a road trip to Stanford with a side visit to some vineyards??
GO HOKIES!!!
They’re 17-37 since 2019 (if my math is right). Not good.
9-3 minimum even with apparent plagues and cataclysmic events.
Well it is an election year, so I’m certain they’re planning some of those things
Hi Andy
I’m not sure where to ask a mailbag question. Any updates or conversations with Nick Sorensen or Darryl Tapp? I’d be interested to hear their thoughts on the NFC Championship Game
9-3 minimum
Our record will be better than in 2023 but 9-3? Don’t get ahead of yourself. Pry won’t.
9-3 Arch. Let’s Go‼️
Thanks Andy – looks good to me! GO HOKIES!!!