BATON ROUGE — LSU Senior Associate Athletic Director Dan Radakovich announced on Monday that LSU and Virginia Tech have completed a deal that will have the Tigers and the Hokies meet in a home-and-home series in 2002 and 2004.
The Tigers would travel to Blacksburg, Va., to take on Virginia Tech on August 31, 2002 and the Hokies would return the trip to Tiger Stadium on Sept. 4, 2004. Radakovich said that both contests would be shown on one of the ESPN television networks.
“(Associate Athletic Director) Bo Bahnsen did a great job of pulling this all together along with Jim Weaver (Athletic Director of Virginia Tech) and Dave Brown (of ESPN). This has taken upwards of two months to finalize and I am glad that we were able to pull it off,.” said Radakovich.
The 2002 date comes about as the first year in which a 12-game regular season schedule is allowed by the NCAA, while the 2004 game will be the opener of LSU’s 11-game schedule that season. In both years, LSU will play seven home games.
The Tigers open the 2001 season at home against Tulane on Saturday, Sept. 1 at Tiger Stadium.
The Tigers and Hokies have never met on the gridiron.