MORGANTOWN — WVU athletic director Shane Lyons, in conjunction with the ACC, announced WVU’s road games at Pitt and Virginia Tech will be moved to Thursday night.
The season opener at Pitt, originally scheduled for Saturday, Sept. 3, will be moved to Thursday, Sept. 1, and game four at Virginia Tech, originally scheduled for Saturday, Sept. 24, will be moved to Thursday, Sept. 22.
The national television network for the two primetime matchups will be announced at a later date.
“Moving two of our oldest football rivalries to primetime continues to build excitement for the 2022 season,” Lyons said. “Fans will get to start the Labor Day Weekend with the Backyard Brawl, which is a great way to renew one of the best rivalries in college football. And if heading to Blacksburg for the first time since 2004 wasn’t hard enough, changing it to a Thursday night matchup will showcase the rivalry even more to college football fans around the country.”
Along with the Baylor game in Morgantown on Oct. 13, there now will be three Thursday games on this year’s schedule. That marks the most games on a weekday since 2011 when the Mountaineers faced Syracuse and Pitt on Friday and finished the regular season at USF on a Thursday.
During the early 2000s, the Mountaineers could be seen on weekday games quite often, playing three times during the 2004, 2005, 2007 and 2008 and four games in 2006, 2009 and 2010.
