I beg to differ my sarcastic friend. You mean WVU and VT played prior to Coach Nehlen and Beamer?! Wow, thanks for the history lesson. Now, seriously speaking, of course they played, but it wasn't until you had 2 head coaches that were able to put their respective schools on a winning path and build programs worthy of national respect on near annual basis that this rivalry really caught fire and took off is what I was referring to.