It’s WVU v. Virginia Tech inside the Coliseum next season and then, presumably, in Blacksburg, Va., in the following season. That, I say, fulfills the “mysterious high-major” and does so better than Kent State satisfied “mysterious mid-major” a season ago. It’s a home game/non-conference series and next season it gives WVU high-majors at home, on the road and on a neutral floor.

And there’s more history to the series than the recent past suggests, as chronicled by JackBo. He’s covered both sides of the deal and knows the history both ways … but then there’s this nugget submerged in the entertainment.

This coming season, those would be the Hokies at home, at Purdue on national TV – perhaps in the midst of the Big 12 Conference season – and against Coach John Beilein and Michigan in mid-December at the new Barclays Center in Brooklyn, N.Y.

WVU goes to Pittsburgh’s Consol Energy Center to meet Duquesne, and faces Marshall in the Charleston Civic Center in a game likely to be moved from its recent mid-January, State Legislature-in-town time to early to mid-December.

That won’t go over very well.