2013 college schedules & notes
Va. Tech Hokies Va. Cavaliers
Aug 31 vs. Alabama 5:30 ESPN BYU 3:30 ESPNU
Chick-fil-A Kickoff Game - Atlanta, Ga.
Sep 7 Western Carolina 1:30 ESPN3 Oregon 3:30 ABC/E2
Sep 14 @ East Carolina 12:00 FS1 open
Sep 21 Marshall (WHITE Effect) 12:00 ESPNU VMI 3:30 ESPN3
Sep 28 @ **Ga. Tech THURSDAY 7:30 ESPN @ **Pittsburgh 12:30 FSN/Com
Oct 5 **UNC (HC, MAROON Effect) 12:30 ACC Ball State 12:00 FSN/Com
Oct 12 **Pittsburgh 12:00 ESPNU @ *Maryland 3:30 ESPNU
Oct 18 open **Duke 3:30 Com/FoxSS
Oct 26 **Duke (ORANGE Effect) 3:30 ESPNU **Georgia Tech 12:30 ACC
Nov 2 @ *Boston College 12:00 ABC *Clemson 3:30 ESPN
Nov 9 @ **Miami 7:00 ESPN @ **N. Carolina 12:30 ACC
Nov 16 *Maryland 12:30 ACC open
Nov 23 open @ **Miami 12:00 ESPNU
Nov 30 @ **Virginia 3:30 ESPNU **Va. Tech 3:30 ESPNU
Dec. 7 The Dr. Pepper ACC Football Championship Game,
Bank of America Stadium, Charlotte, N.C.
* ACC game / ** Coastal Division game
WVU Mountaineers Marshall U. Thundering Herd
Aug 31 William & Mary 12:00 FS1 Miami (Oh) 7:00 CBSsn
Sep 7 @ *Oklahoma 7:00 Fox Gardner-Webb 6:30
Sep 14 Georgia State 12:00 Root @ Ohio 8:00 ESPNews
Sep 21 vs. Maryland (@ Balt.) 3:30 ESPNU @ Va. Tech 12:00 ESPNU
Sep 28 *Oklahoma State 12:00 ESPN open
Oct 5 @ *Baylor 8:00 FS1 *UTSA HC 2:00
Oct 12 open @ **Fla. Atl. 5:00 FoxCS
Oct 19 *Texas Tech 12:00 FS1 open
Oct 26 @ *Kansas State 3:45 FS1 @ **Middle Tenn. THUR 7:30 FS1
Nov 2 @ *TCU 3:30 ESPNU **Southern Miss 12:00 CBSsn
Nov 9 *Texas 7:00 Fox **UAB 12:00 CSS
Nov 16 @ *Kansas 12:00 FSN @ *Tulsa THUR 7:30 FS1
Nov 23 open @ **Fla. Int'l 6:00 FS1 ?
Nov 30 *Iowa State 4:00 FS1 **East Carolina FRI 12:00 CBSsn
* Big 12 game * C-USA game / ** C-USA East Division game
Tenn. Vols App. St. Mountaineers
Aug 31 Austin Peay 6:00 ppv @ Montana 9:00
Sep 7 Western Ky. 12:21 SEC N.C. A&T 6:00
Sep 14 @ Oregon 3:30 ABC open
Sep 21 @ **Florida 3:30 CBS @ *Elon 6:00
Sep 28 S. Alabama 12:21 SEC @ Charleston S'ern 3:30
Oct 5 **Georgia 3:30 CBS @ *The Citadel 2:00
Oct 12 open *Samford HC 3:30
Oct 19 **S. Carolina 12:00 ESPN @ *Furman 1:30
Oct 26 @ *Alabama 3:30 CBS *Ga. Southern 3:30 ESPN3
Nov 2 @ **Missouri 7:00 ESPN *Chattanooga 3:30
Nov 9 *Auburn 12:00 ESPN @ Georgia 12:30 ESPN3
Nov 16 open @ *Wofford 1:30
Nov 23 **Vandy 7:00 ESPN2 *Western Carolina 3:30
Nov 30 @ **Kentucky 7:00 ESPNU
Dec 7 The SEC Championship Game presented by
Dr. Pepper, Georgia Dome, Atlanta, 4:00 CBS
* SEC game / ** SEC Eastern Division game * SoCon game
James Madison Dukes Richmond Spiders
Aug 31 Central Conn. St. 6:00 VMI 6:00
Sep 7 @ Akron 6:00 ESPN3 @ NC State 6:00 ESPN3
Sep 14 St. Francis (PA) 6:00 @ Gardner-Webb 6:00 ESPN3
Sep 21 Charlotte 6:00 Liberty 6:00
Sep 28 @ *Delaware 7:00 NBCreg *Maine 4:00 CSN
Oct 5 *Albany 1:30 open
Oct 12 *Richmond 3:30 NBCreg @ *JMU 3:30 NBCsn
Oct 19 open @ *Rhode Island 1:00
Oct 26 @ *William & Mary 3:30 *Towson 12:00 CSN
Nov 2 *Villanova (HC) 2:30 NBCreg *Albany HC 4:00
Nov 9 @ *New Hampshire 12:30 NBCreg @ *Stony Brook 1:00
Nov 16 *Stony Brook 3:30 NBCreg @ *Delaware 12:00
Nov 23 @ *Towson 3:30 NBCreg *William & Mary 4:00
* Colonial game
Liberty Flames Emory & Henry Wasps
Aug 31 @ Kent State THUR 6:00 ESPN3.com
Sep 7 Monmouth 7:00 Ferrum 1:00
Sep 14 Morgan State 7:00 ESPN3 Maryville (Tenn.) 2:00
Sep 21 @ Richmond 6:00 @ Methodist 1:00
Sep 28 Kentucky Wesleyan 7:00 open
Oct 5 @ Old Dominion 6:00 @ *Randolph-Macon "
Oct 12 open *Wash. & Lee "
Oct 19 *Coastal Carolina HC 3:30 ESPN3 *Hampden-Sydney HC "
Oct 26 @ *Gardner-Webb 1:30 ESPN3 @ *Catholic "
Nov 2 *VMI 3:30 *Bridgewater "
Nov 9 *Presbyterian College " @ *Shenandoah "
Nov 16 Brevard " @ *Guilford "
Nov 23 @ *Charleston Southern 11 am ESPN3
* Big South game * ODAC game
UVA-Wise Cavaliers Concord Mtn. Lions
Sep 7 @ Campbell 6:00 @ Lenoir-Rhyne 7:00
Sep 14 @ *West Va. Wesleyan 12:00 *West Va. State 1:00
Sep 21 *Charleston 2:00 @ *Bowie State "
Sep 28 Union Col. (HC) 6:00 @ *West Liberty "
Oct 5 @ *Notre Dame (Ohio) 4:00 *Fairmont St. 2:00
Oct 12 *Shepherd 12:00 @ Urbana 12:00
Oct 19 @ *Glenville St. 1:00 *West Va. Wesleyan 1:00
Oct 26 *West Va. State 1:00 @ *Charleston "
Nov 2 @ *Concord 2:00 *UVA-Wise 2:00
Nov 9 *West Liberty 1:00 @ *Notre Dame (Ohio) 1:00
Nov 16 @ *Fairmont St. 1:00 *Shepherd 1:00
*Mtn. East game
Bluefield College Rams U. of Pikeville Bears
(Mitchell Stadium)
Aug 31 @ Point U. (Ala.) 12:00 @ Morehead St. THUR 7:07
Sep 7 @ **U. Pikeville THUR 7:00 **Bluefield Col. (VA) THUR 7:00
Sep 14 open @ Edward Waters (Jax,FLA) 2:00
Sep 21 **Ky. Christian 6:00 @ **Lindsey Wilson 2:30
Sep 28 @ *Cumberland U. (TN) 2:30 **U. of Cumberlands (KY) 1:30
Oct 5 @ *Bethel (TN) (HC) 3:00 @ *Cumberland U. (TN) 2:30
Oct 12 *Belhaven (HC) 1:30 open
Oct 19 **Union College 6:30 *Bethel U. 1:30
Oct 26 @ Southern Virginia 1:00 @ **Georgetown Col. (KY) "
Nov 2 @ **Georgetown Col. (KY) 1:30 @ **Ky Christian "
Nov 9 @ **Lindsey Wilson 2:30 *Belhaven U. 1:30
Nov 16 **U. of Cumberlands (KY) 1:30 **Union College 1:30
* Mid-South Conf. game / ** East Division game
------- Notes ------
The above will be updated regularly throughout the season as broadcast
arrangements are announced, but the updates won't be noted on the news page.
NCAA
All Division I programs can play 12 regular season games in 2013 and 2014.
Va. Tech
Cornerback Donaldven Manning transferred.
(I wonder if we could replace him with Peyton McNabb??)
Starting FB Sam Rogers (45) is a walk-on freshman from Hanover.
Tech's 11-year run with a Thur. night home game on ESPN has ended.
Tech's scheduled home game vs. Miami became a road game because of
scheduling problems when the ACC added two teams, giving the Hokies just
six home games this year.
Tech's run of 93 consecutive sold-out home games ended with the 9/7
Western Carolina game (they were 4300 short, about how many tickets the
Catamounts returned as unsold).
Tech just became the 15th NCAA D-1 program with 700 wins.
Lane Stadium's 8-year-old, 28' x 38' Mitsubishi Diamond Vision
video board has been replaced with a 48' x 108' Panasonic board at
a cost of around $3 Mil.
A.D. Jim Weaver recently announced a 2-year deal with a "Pa-less" Penn St.
(his alma mater)... 9/17/22 @ Lane Stadium & 9/16/23 in Death Valley.
Tech's home game vs. THE Ohio State U. has a new date & time ...
Labor Day Monday (night), 9/7/15, on ESPN. The home-and-home series
begins next year with a trip to The Horseshoe on 9/20/14.
Coach Beamer’s new autobiography, “Let Me Be Frank – My Life At
Virginia Tech”, is in bookstores now.
For you hardcore Hokies, a new maroon and orange daylily - “VT Spirit” -
should be available now at local garden centers across the state.
The proposed new indoor practice facility finally has a home (location).
A building and grounds committee of the BoV approved a 210' wide x 400' long
building on the practice field adjacent to the football locker room (or, to
us old-timers, the old baseball field), followed by renovations to Rector,
including making the indoor track permanent. Total cost for both items
will be in the $25 million range ($17 mil and $8 mil.) Site work could start
in early 2014 and occupancy could occur in mid-2015. (And FYI, the BoV also
approved new dorms for the Corp of Cadets).
HLN's Robin Meade will be in Miami - http://www.HLNtv.com/RivalryExpress
UVA
Co-starting QB Michael Rocco transferred in Jan. to the U. of Richmond,
where he hoped to play immediately for head coach/uncle Danny Rocco.
But the NCAA enforced the rule that says transfers from the FBS to the FCS,
who have only one season of eligibility remaining, must sit out a season.
So Rocco, who wants to follow Family Tradition and become a coach someday,
will learn from the sidelines this year while watching Jr. Michael Strauss,
who transferred from UVA to UR in January 2012, QB the Siders.
Co-starting QB Phillip Sims was dismissed from school in June because of
his academic performance and has transferred to Div. II Winston-Salem State.
Redshirt Soph. David Watford is now the 'Hoos starting QB.
Former head coach Al Groh, who spent the first half of last season as
Georgia Tech's defensive coordinator, is now an ESPN analyst. He did Akron
@ Central Fla. on Thur. 8/29 on ESPN3 & will do Duke @ Memphis on 9/7.
The 'Hoos new $13 million, 80,000 sq. ft. George Welsh Indoor Practice
Facility opened in mid-March.
Boise State will visit the 'ville on 9/26/15.
ACC
Adds Pitt (Coastal) & the 'Cuse (Atlantic) from the (former) Big East.
Adds Notre Dame in all sports but football and hockey. The Irish
will play 5 ACC games per season - 3 Home & 2 Away in even-numbered years,
2 Home & 3 Away in odd-numbered years ...
2014 : H - Louisville, UNC & Wake Forest A : Florida State & Syracuse
2015 : H - Boston College & Georgia Tech A : Clemson, Pittsburgh & Virginia
2016 : H - Duke, Miami & Virginia Tech A : N.C. State & Syracuse
The NCAA still hasn't finished it's look into former booster Nevin Shapiro.
Even after a 2-year, self-imposed bowl ban, if Miami wins the Coastal Division,
the 'Canes may not be able to play for the ACC title, or go to a bowl.
Next year, the league adds Louisville and loses Maryland.
WVU
A former 'Eer LB decided to create a "theme song" for WVU called
"Mountaineer Nation". Sounds more like ghet-to than hol-low.
(I still prefer Owen Schmitt's "Here Come The Mountaineers".)
Marshall
C-USA
Lost Central Florida, Houston, SMU & Memphis to the American Athletic;
Added Florida Atlantic, Florida International, Middle Tennessee & N. Texas
from the Sun Belt.
2014 - will lose East Carolina, Tulane and Tulsa to the AAC;
will add Western Kentucky (Sun Belt) & independent ODU
East Div. will be Marshall, East Carolina, UAB, Southern Miss., MTSU, FAU & FIU
2015 - will add (the former UNC-) Charlotte.
ODU
The Monarchs are looking at building a new 30,000 seat stadium along the
Elizabeth River on the site of the Powhatan Apartment dorms, after studies
showed that the Foreman Field site could only hold 25,000 seats, max.
Will be an FCS independent this year and join C-USA next year, but will
NOT be Bowl-eligible until 2015 (though they may get a "wild-card" berth).
Are 38-10 over the past 4 years.
Tenn.
Vols fans will see some uniform tweaks this year. A state of Tennessee patch
has been added above the players’ names, and the away jerseys' orange numbers
will have a checkerboard background.
And an alternate uniform is available... it's a charcoal or “Smokey” color,
which may look sky blue/grey on TV. It debuts in the Oct. 5th Ga. game.
Former head coach Phillip Fulmer is interested in being part of the
College Football Playoff selection committee.
UT just became the eighth NCAA D-1 program with 800 wins.
Louisville's upcoming Conf. switch opens the door for a 4th season-ending,
in-state, ACC-SEC showdown, so this will be the last year the Vols will close
with UK. They'll go back to finishing off with Vanderbilt, like they did from
1976-2000.
App. State
As part of the switch from the FCS to the FBS (Division 1-A, Sun Belt),
ASU has to average at least 76 roster players on scholarship. They've already
passed the FCS limit of 63, so they're ineligible for the playoffs AND the
coaches poll this year, and ineligible for a bowl next season. They're also
looking at increasing seating at The Rock from 24,000 to 30,000 by adding to
the north and east sides.
Will join the Sun Belt in 2014. The 'Eers first game as an FBS school
will be back at The Big House vs. Michigan on Sat., 8/30/14.
(Wrestling and men’s soccer will stay in the SoCon.)
Southern Conf.
2014 - adds Mercer and re-gains VMI
2015 - re-gains East Tennessee State (will play an indy. schedule)
Sun Belt
Added Georgia State, Texas State, Texas-Arlington (no football team)
2014 - will add Appalachian State and Georgia Southern (SoCon;
Bowl eligibility for both begins in 2015),
and Idaho & New Mexico State as football-only members.
Big East
The Big East Conference "split" over the Summer, with the football schools
becoming the American Athletic Conference (see below). The basketball schools,
AKA the Catholic 7 (DePaul, Georgetown, Marquette, Providence, Seton Hall,
St. John's and Villanova), kept the Big East name and have added Butler (A-10),
Xavier (A-10) and Creighton (Missouri Valley), and Notre Dame "joined" the ACC.
American Athletic Conference
New Conf. Formed by the football schools that left the Big East -
Cincinnati, Connecticut, Louisville, Rutgers, & USF (South Florida),
along with Houston, Memphis, Southern Methodist & UCF (Central Florida)
from C-USA and Temple (A-10). www.theamerican.org
2014 - loses Louisville (ACC) and Rutgers (Big 10)
gains East Carolina, Tulane and Tulsa (C-USA)
2015 - gains Navy for football only
(please call them "The American", as "The AAC" has existed since 2001,
when the TVAC [Tennessee-Virginia Athletic Conference] changed names again.)
BCS
The BCS will kick the bucket after this year, to be replaced by a 4-team
"playoff", with the teams picked by a selection committee, based on record,
SoS, head-to-head results and conference results. That committee will also
help in making the pairings of the bowls that are skipped that year, as the
semi-finals will be rotated among 6 bowls (2014-Rose & Sugar, 2015-Cotton &
Orange, 2016-Fiesta & Chick-fil-A) and will be played on 12/31 and 1/1.
The title game will go to the highest bidder and will be played on the
first Monday in January that is at least six days after the last semifinal.
The first "Championship Monday" will be Jan. 12, 2015.
FCS
Has expanded their playoff field to 24 teams. Seeds 1-8 will have byes
with eight first-round games on Nov. 30.
Appalachian State, Charlotte, Georgia Southern and Old Dominion are all
ineligible for the Coaches Poll & playoffs due to their transition to the FBS.
JMU
Dukes Soph. QB Michael Birdsong had an emergency appendectomy on 8/6
and was back at practice 10 days later. Sr. UVa transfer Quintin Hunter
might start in the opener on Aug. 31st.
Richmond
The Spiders gained former co-starting UVA QB Michael Rocco from UVA
in Jan. He hoped to play immediately for head coach/uncle Danny Rocco,
but the NCAA enforced the rule that says transfers from the FBS to the FCS
who have only one season of eligibility remaining must sit out a season.
So Rocco, who wants to follow family tradition and become a coach,
will learn from the sidelines this year while watching Jr. Michael Strauss,
who transferred from UVA in January 2012.
Colonial Athletic Association
Georgia State returned to the Sun Belt, ODU became an independent.
Added Stony Brook (Big South) & Albany (Northeast) in football only.
2014 - adds Elon
Liberty U.
The Flames are looking to move it's football program from FCS (1-AA) to
FBS (1-A), but have no timetable.
Big South
2014 - adds Monmouth as an associate member
E & H
ODAC
UVA-Wise
The Highland Cavs are in the second year of a three-year transition from
the NAIA to NCAA's Division II and are ineligible for Div. II post-season play
until the Fall of 2015.
In 2011, the Cavs got an inviation from the WVIAC. They applied but were
denied membership in March 2012 by a 9-6 vote (they needed 2/3rds approval, or
10 votes). In April, the Cavs accepted an invitation to join the new Great
Midwest Athletic Conference. In June, the WVIAC's nine football schools left
and formed the Mountain East. In August, they invited UVA-Wise, which accepted.
WVIAC / Mountain East
The WVIAC has dissolved. Last June, nine of the 10 football-playing schools
(Charleston, Concord, Fairmont St., Glenville St. Col., Shepherd, West Liberty,
WV State, WV Wesleyan Col. and Seton Hill [Penn]) announced they were leaving to
form a new conference. In August, those schools, plus UVa-Wise & Urbana (Ohio)
(both of which were slated to join the Great Midwest), Div. II Independent
Notre Dame College (Ohio) and non-gridironing Wheeling Jesuit announced that
they would be forming the Mountain East Conference in 2013. MEC teams will
NOT be eligible for automatic bids to Div. II championships until the 2015–16
school year, but ARE eligible for at-large bids.
Alderson–Broaddus (which just played it's first varsity game since 1930),
Davis & Elkins, and Ohio Valley moved to the Great Midwest Athletic Conference
(which doesn't sponsor football, and also added former WVIACer Salem Int'l U.,
formerly Salem-Teikyo).
Pitt-Johnstown (and Seton Hill) moved to the Pennsylvania State Athletic
Conference. Bluefield State's Big Blues are now a Division II Independent.
(They last fielded a football team in 1981.)
Bluefield College
U-Pike
Mid-South
Another year, another realignment.
Added Georgia's Reinhartd U. to the West in football only.
(they brought back football, which the AAC doesn't sponsor)
Moved Bluefield College from the West to the East,
Moved Lindsey Wilson from the West BACK to the East.
Lost UVA-Wise to the new Mountain East Conf.
Cumberland University will leave next year for the G-MAC, then will
likely begin the three-year process to join Div. II (in 2017) by applying
for membership in February. Georgetown College may do the same (they were
denied admission to Div. II last year.)
Carson-Newman
The NE corner of Burke-Tarr Stadium is now home to a 24' x 18' video board
dubbed Eagle Vision. The $300,000 tab was coveded by an 'anonymous' donor.
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NBCreg / NBCsn (CSN) was Vs. was OLN
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Fox Sports 2 was Fuel