Virginia Tech will kick off 2013 with game against Alabama
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The made-for-TV rematch between Alabama and Virginia Tech in the Chick-fil-A Kickoff to open the 2013 football season is official, Tech announced Thursday.
The Hokies and Crimson Tide, who played in the same event to start the 2009 season, will meet again in Atlanta's Georgia Dome in a game that will be aired on ABC or ESPN, probably in prime time. Tickets for the 2013 game will be divided evenly between the schools.
Meant to create a BCS bowl-like game at the beginning of the season, the Chick-fil-A Kickoff has paired ranked teams in each of its first three such events. Fifth-ranked Alabama beat seventh-ranked Tech 34-24 in 2009 to jump start the Crimson Tide's run to the national championship.
"Alabama and Virginia Tech are consistently two of the top teams in the country and there is no question that Nick Saban and Frank Beamer are two of the top coaches in the country," Gary Stokan, Chick-fil-A Bowl president and CEO, said in statement released by Tech. "This match-up will be the best kickoff to college football, especially with the grand opening of the new College Football Hall of Fame and the enshrinement ceremonies that weekend."
The Hokies hope to reverse a recent trend of losing marquee nonleague games early in the season - Southern California (2004), LSU (2007), Alabama (2009), Boise State (2010) - and halt the ACC's struggles in the Chick-fil-A Kickoff.
So far the league is 0-3 in that game, with Clemson losing to Alabama in 2008, Tech falling to the Tide in 2009 and North Carolina losing to LSU last season.
Despite all that, the Hokies were still eager to take another crack at it, thinking the opportunity for a big win and the national exposure outweigh the risk of losing the game.
"This is a great game for our fans and our program to open a season against a prestigious program like the University of Alabama," Tech coach Frank Beamer said in the news release.
The Hokies, who also play a nonleague game at home against Pittsburgh in 2013, had room on the schedule after moving games against East Carolina in 2012 and 2013 to 2016 and 2017. Next year's game against the Pirates will likely be replaced with a home game against a Football Championship Subdivision opponent.
There appears to be no end in sight to Tech's bold out-of-conference scheduling. Future schedules include non-ACC games such as: at Pittsburgh and at Fed-Ex Field against Cincinnati in 2012; at Ohio State in 2014, home against Ohio State in 2015, home against Wisconsin in 2016, and at Wisconsin in 2017.
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