Virginia Tech is giving up a 2031 home game against Wisconsin to get a marquee, neutral-site time slot against the Badgers to open the campaign.
The Hokies announced Wednesday morning that they will face the Badgers in the Duke’s Mayo Classic on Saturday, Aug. 30, 2031, at Bank of America Stadium in Charlotte, North Carolina.
The teams were slated to play on Sept. 13, 2031, at Lane Stadium. However, after the Hokies drew more than 5 million viewers for their neutral-site contest against South Carolina to open this season, the potential of drawing another large television audience led to this move.
It will mark the fourth time the Hokies will play at Bank of America Stadium. They have participated in the bowl game at that stadium three times (2016, 2019 and 2024), and they are 1-2 in those bowl games.
Tech rallied to stun Arkansas in the 2016 Belk Bowl, fell to Kentucky in the 2019 Belk Bowl and lost to Minnesota in the 2024 Duke’s Mayo Bowl.
The Hokies’ road game against Wisconsin is still slated for Sept. 18, 2032.
The Hokies and Badgers were originally slated to play a home-and-home series in the 2008 and ’09 seasons. The series was pushed back to 2016 and ’17, then 2019 and ’20, then ’24 and ’25, and again to ’31 and ’32.
The 2031 matchup against the Badgers is the only scheduled nonconference game on the Hokies’ schedule for that season.
