WF @ VT (10/14), 3:30PM on ACC Network

[HailToTheDeacons]

ACC Release: https://theacc.com/news/2023/10/2/acc-announces-football-game-times-networks-for-oct-14.aspx

The Atlantic Coast Conference and its television partners announced the following football game times and networks for Oct. 14.

Saturday, Oct. 14

• Wake Forest at Virginia Tech, 3:30 p.m. ET on ACC Network
• Louisville at Pitt, 6:30 p.m. ET on The CW Network
• NC State at Duke, 8 p.m. ET on ACC Network

ESPN has elected to use a six-day selection for the following two games which will fill the noon and 7:30 p.m. ET windows on ABC:

• Syracuse at Florida State
• Miami at North Carolina

 

[LilburnDeac]

Any guesses about the potential game time for PITT on October 21?

 

[deacdixieboy]

Any guesses about the potential game time for PITT on October 21?

It screams CW. I would guess 2 based on their times this year.

 

[uncaboref]

It screams CW. I would guess 2 based on their times this year.

There is a LIV golf event that weekend, so the CW time slot will probably be at 6:30pm that Saturday, like it was for the GT at Wake game.

 

[PhDeac]

There is a LIV golf event that weekend, so the CW time slot will probably be at 6:30pm that Saturday, like it was for the GT at Wake game.

That's not good for Homecoming.

 

[LilburnDeac]

There is a LIV golf event that weekend, so the CW time slot will probably be at 6:30pm that Saturday, like it was for the GT at Wake game.

I hope so, at least for my personal schedule. Need it to be pretty much anytime other than 3:30

 

[BarcaDeac]

I don’t think I’ve ever heard the school referred to VPI outside of this board. I know that’s what it used to be called but I know some grads and my wife is from VA and I don’t think she’s ever heard it called that either.

 

[PhDeac]

I used to see it regularly back in the 80s and 90s.

 

[BarcaDeac]

I used to see it regularly back in the 80s and 90s.

As a kid I think the first time I even heard of the school was the Vick year when they lost to FSU. And it was just Virginia Tech. But I was young so didn’t pay too much attention to it.

 

[HailToTheDeacons]

I definitely picked it up from the boards and have been subconsciously using it for years. Weird how that works.

I'll change the thread title.

 

[CONeill]

I don’t think I’ve ever heard the school referred to VPI outside of this board. I know that’s what it used to be called but I know some grads and my wife is from VA and I don’t think she’s ever heard it called that either.

I was in that boat until a week ago when Pitt people used it going into their game against ... VPI.

 

[BarcaDeac]

I definitely picked it up from the boards and have been subconsciously using it for years. Weird how that works.

I'll change the thread title.

no it's fine I was just wondering how much it exists IRL

 

[Turd Ferguson]

My whole family says VPI...but there are a lot Wake alums in my family. Not affiliated with the boards tho. I just thought everybody said VPI.

 

[DeacAssured]

I'm pretty sure Virginia Polytechnical . . . is what they proudly called themselves in a bygone era. And it is the correct start of the name: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Tech

 

[Deacsfan27]

There are a ton of VPI fans/alums in the Winston area and they were annoying as hell. It was communicated to me that they did not like the shorthand "VPI", so I just kept using it because I'm petty, and now I just default to it here and IRL.

Not sure if that's still the case.

 

[DeacInVermont]

I still refer to them as the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.

 

[BeachBumDeac]

I still refer to them as the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.

prounounced "vee-PISS-oo" of course

 

[Biff Tannen]

All the real ones say VPI !!!

 

[Pilchard]

Really old people in Virginia call it VPI. That's about it.

 

[TimmyClutch]

I still refer to them as the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.

It's weird they call themselves that. Virginia isn't a state, its a commonwealth.