With the possibility of GameDay attending.
Not to mention the small fact that on the biggest stage available that week (presumably Gameday will be there to boot), we're going to kick Virginia Tech's ass all over the field. They may as well send out 100 random fratboys.
It's pretty much a certainty that it will be, because the college game slate for that afternoon is awful; it was a great idea by whoever did it to have the game played the second weekend of the season rather than the first or third.
Look at the Power 5 school games for 9/10/16:
- Tennessee vs Virginia Tech
- Arkansas vs TCU
- Texas Tech vs Arizona State
- South Carolina vs Mississippi State
- BYU vs Utah
- Penn State vs Pittsburgh
- UVA vs Oregon
- North Carolina vs Illinois
- UCF vs Michigan
- Iowa State vs Iowa
- Western Kentucky vs Alabama
- Arkansas State vs Auburn
- Kentucky vs Florida
- Nicholls State vs Georgia
- Jacksonville State vs LSU
- Wofford vs Ole Miss
- Eastern Michigan vs Missouri
- Prairie View vs Texas A&M
- Middle Tennessee vs Vanderbilt
- SMU vs Baylor
- ULM vs Oklahoma
- Ohio vs Kansas
- Central Michigan vs Oklahoma State
- UTEP vs Texas
- Youngstown State vs West Virginia
- Ball State vs Indiana
- Tulsa vs Ohio State
- Howard vs Rutgers
- Indiana State vs Minnesota
- Wyoming vs Nebraska
- Illinois State vs Northwestern
- Cincinnati vs Purdue
- Akron vs Wisconsin
- Nevada vs Notre Dame
- Cal vs San Diego State
- Idaho vs Washington
- Washington State vs Boise State
- Grambling State vs Arizona
- Idaho State vs Colorado
- UNLV vs UCLA
- Utah State vs USC
- Boston College vs UMASS
- Troy vs Clemson
- Charleston Southern vs FSU
- NCST vs East Carolina
- Mercer vs Georgia Tech
- FAU vs Miami (FL)
(Louisville, Syracuse, Wake Forest, and Duke have ACC games which haven't been publicly released yet. Maryland also has to schedule another game)
Had it been scheduled for week 1 it would have to compete with games like - Alabama vs USC, Clemson vs Auburn, LSU vs. Wisconsin, UCLA at Texas A&M, Notre Dame vs Texas, Ole Miss vs. Florida State, Kansas State vs Stanford, and Houston vs Oklahoma.
And had it been a week later (Week 3) it would have been competing against the likes of: Notre Dame vs Michigan State, Ohio State vs Oklahoma, Oregon vs Nebraska, USC vs Stanford, UCLA vs BYU, Mississippi State vs LSU, and Alabama vs Ole Miss (And possibly FSU vs Miami)
Brilliant scheduling!