Virginia Tech and Rutgers agree to play home-and-home series
The Virginia Tech Hokies and Rutgers Scarlet Knights have agreed to a home-and-home football series to be played in 2023 and 2024, Virginia Tech and Rutgers both announced on Tuesday.
Virginia Tech will travel to Rutgers on Sept. 16, 2023, while the Scarlet Knights will visit the Hokies on Sept. 21, 2024. The two schools have met 15 times, most recently in the 2012 Russell Athletic Bowl, in which Virginia Tech beat Rutgers 13-10 in overtime. The Hokies have won the last 12 of the two schools' meetings.
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The teams first played in 1920, and played each other every season from 1990 to 2003, the last year Rutgers hosted Virginia Tech.
The two meetings will bring together the former Big East conference rivals, and Rutgers is the sixth Big Ten school added to Virginia Tech's schedule. The Hokies recently rescheduled two-game series with both Penn State and Wisconsin, will host national champion Ohio State next season and are planning for a series against Michigan.
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Rutgers finished this season, its first in the Big Ten, with an 8-5 record after defeating North Carolina 40-21 in the Quick Lane Bowl. Virginia Tech went 7-6, beating Cincinnati 33-17 in the Military Bowl.
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