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BLACKSBURG -- Virginia Tech made its first significant change to its future nonconference football schedules Thursday by renegotiating the remaining part of its lengthy series with Old Dominion.
Both programs announced that four future matchups are canceled. The teams meet in Week 3 at Lane Stadium this season, and the remaining two games in the series will be played in Blacksburg in 2026 and 2030.
Tech's 2028 home game against ODU was canceled, along with the Monarchs' home dates against the Hokies in 2027, 2029 and 2031.
As part of the agreement, the Virginia Tech men's basketball team will host ODU no later than the 2027-28 season.
The Hokies and Monarchs are scheduled to play this season on Sept. 13 at 7 p.m. in Blacksburg in what was to be the seventh meeting in a 13-game series that was slated to conclude in 2031.
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The teams initially agreed to a two-for-one series in 2012, and four games were added the following year to make it a six-game series that began in 2017 and concluded this season. In the months leading up to the first matchup, the teams announced six more games in the series that alternated between Blacksburg and Norfolk.
The six games that were added between 2026-31 featured the home team in the series paying a $250,000 guarantee to essentially cover the visiting team's travel costs.
ODU athletic director Wood Selig said in a release Thursday that this season's contest and the 2026 and 2030 contests were "converted ... into guaranteed games for Old Dominion," and he added ODU will receive a guaranteed payment for the future men's basketball contest in Blacksburg.
A copy of the revised contract was not available.
The move to renegotiate the series comes as Virginia Tech enters the ACC's new era of revenue distribution.
The revenue distribution model centers around the league's media rights deal with ESPN through 2036. Previously, the league evenly distributed the yearly media rights to league members. The new model will see 40% of the television money distributed evenly among the 14 long-standing ACC members (this excludes newcomers SMU, California and Stanford), and the other 60% will be distributed based on a ratings-based formula over a five-year rolling average.
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