The ACC is considering giving Georgia Tech two Thursday night games for the 2013 season, at Clemson and home against Virginia Tech.
Tech interim athletic director Paul Griffin said there have been “discussions about those possibilities, but it’s far from complete.”
The Hokies have become a common primetime opponent for the Yellow Jackets. The two teams played each other on Thursday nights in 2010 and 2011 and then on Labor Day night in the season opener in 2012. Clemson and Tech have not faced each other on a Thursday night since the 2009 season, one of only two Thursday games in the series since the longtime rivals stopped playing each other on Thanksgiving Day in 1914.
The two games would not be back to back, Griffin said. In fact, with the calendar allowing for two bye weeks this year, all of the ACC’s Thursday night games will be preceded by a bye week, Griffin said. The full schedule could be released by the end of this week.
With Tech participating in the Labor Day game, 2012 was the first year since 1994 that the Jackets didn’t play in a Thursday night ACC game.
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