Report: FSU Football to Open 2018 vs. Virginia Tech on Labor Day Weekend

FSU football will reportedly open next season at home against one of the powers from the ACC’s Coastal Division, the Virginia Tech Hokies.

In recent years, the FSU football program has been a part of some of the top games to open the college football season. Over the past decade, the Seminoles have started the season with games that include Clemson, Miami, Pittsburgh, Oklahoma State, Ole Miss and this year’s showdown with the Alabama Crimson Tide.

In 2018, it appears the ‘Noles will play another high profile team – this time another fellow member of the ACC in a game that will be played inside Doak Campbell Stadium.

While reported this morning by several other FSU fan sites, the news has now been generated from the Hokies’ side of the equation, as The Roanoke Times’ Andy Bitter tweeted out the following message:

If this game were to take place as it seems it will, Virginia Tech will move their previously scheduled opener against another team called the Tribe – FCS opponent William and Mary – to one week later to make it work. FSU football currently doesn’t have a game scheduled for the season opener.

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Starting the year with a quality opponent like the Hokies would be huge for the ‘Noles…even more importantly since it would be playing a big opener in Tallahassee for the first time since Florida State lost to the Hurricanes in the opener of the 2009 campaign. It would also continue the streak of tougher openers – as FSU will open 2019 in Jacksonville against Boise State and 2020 against West Virginia in Atlanta.

FSU football’s 2018 schedule is going to be one full of hurdles for head coach Jimbo Fisher’s team to get through. In addition to conference games with Virginia Tech, Clemson at home and Miami, Louisville and N.C. State on the road, the Seminoles will also travel to Notre Dame and host Florida within the final three weekends of the regular season.

Recently, it was reported that the ‘Noles scheduled a game for the 2018 season with Northern Illinois – a team they faced in the Orange Bowl following the 2012 season – which would leave Florida State with one non-conference game left to schedule…likely against a FCS foe based on the recent trend. FSU and Virginia Tech last played during the 2012 season, when the Seminoles came back to get the win in Blacksburg.