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Virginia Tech and the ACC announced the 2023 football schedule on January 30, 2023. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The 2023 season will be the conference's first season since 2004 without divisions. The new format matches Virginia Tech with three set conference opponents, while playing the remaining ten teams twice (home and away) in a four–year cycle.
The 14th annual Military Bowl featured Tulane from the American Athletic Conference (The American) and Virginia Tech from the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC). The game began at approximately 2:00 p.m. EST and was aired on ESPN. [5] [6] The Military Bowl was one of the 2023–24 bowl games concluding the 2023 FBS football season.
Georgia Tech: Virginia: Scott Stadium • Charlottesville, VA CW GT 45–17 42,606: November 4 3:30 p.m. Virginia Tech: No. 13 Louisville: L&N Federal Credit Union Stadium • Louisville, KY ACCN LOU 34–3 49,945: November 4 3:30 p.m. No. 4 Florida State: Pittsburgh: Acrisure Stadium • Pittsburgh, PA ESPN FSU 24–7 57,557: November 4 8:00 p.m.
Following the 1980 college football season, Virginia Tech was awarded a bid to the 1981 Peach Bowl as a reward for finishing 8–3 during the regular season. [32] Facing Virginia Tech was a familiar post-season opponent—Miami—whom the Hokies had played in the 1966 Liberty Bowl. No. 20 Miami finished the regular season with an 8–3 record. [33]
Tech administrators, wanting to expand the football program, chose to leave the conference and become a football independent once more. [2] Though Tech joined athletic conferences in other sports during the 1980s, it remained a football independent until 1991, when Virginia Tech became a member of the Big East conference.
Virginia Tech led 14–7 at the half, but Virginia came out in the second half firing on all cylinders, and outscored Tech 21–0 by the 14 minute mark in the fourth quarter. Up by seven with only a few minutes left, Virginia pulled off a fake field goal on fourth down to keep possession away from the Hokies.
Virginia Tech's inaugural football team in 1892. Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College (now Virginia Tech) first played football on October 21, 1892, against St. Albans Lutheran Boys School (Radford, Virginia). The game took place on a plowed off wheat field that was "about as level as a side of Brush Mountain". [8]
In 2021, the game was sponsored by Peraton and known as the Military Bowl presented by Peraton. [7] In 2023, a new agreement made the game the Military Bowl presented by GoBowling.com and in 2024 the game became known as the Go Bowling Military Bowl. [8] On December 20, 2020, several bowls were cancelled due to a lack of available teams.