{"id":407026,"date":"2026-01-14T17:19:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T17:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/407026\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T17:19:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T17:19:07","slug":"virginia-tech-jmu-cancel-2026-football-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/407026\/","title":{"rendered":"Virginia Tech, JMU cancel 2026 football game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BLACKSBURG \u2014\u00a0Virginia Tech and James Madison announced Wednesday they have canceled their football game for the 2026 season.<\/p>\n<p>The cancellation is a result of the Atlantic Coast Conference\u2019s decision to move to a nine-game conference slate beginning in 2026, which reduced available nonconference scheduling opportunities for league members.<\/p>\n<p>VT and JMU were initially scheduled to play on Sept. 26, 2026 at Lane Stadium. Both institutions will continue to evaluate future scheduling opportunities between the two schools.<\/p>\n<p>Tech will now play three nonconference games during the 2026 season, in addition to its nine-game ACC docket. The Hokies are scheduled to open the <a href=\"https:\/\/hokiesports.com\/staff\/james-franklin\" title=\"James Franklin\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">James Franklin<\/a> era against VMI on Sept. 5 at Lane Stadium, host Old Dominion on Sept. 12 and travel to Maryland on Sept. 19.<\/p>\n<p>Additional details regarding Tech\u2019s 2026 football schedule will be revealed in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BLACKSBURG \u2014\u00a0Virginia Tech and James Madison announced Wednesday they have canceled their football game for the 2026 season.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":407027,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[40182,399,73981,398,396,397,99,1339,68894],"class_list":["post-407026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaa-football","tag-acc","tag-football","tag-hokies","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-football","tag-ncaafootball","tag-sports","tag-virginia-tech","tag-vt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=407026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407026\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/407027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=407026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=407026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}