West Virginia’s football program is returning to the scene of its prime to open the 2014 season: The Chick-fil-A Kickoff Game against Alabama in the Georgia Dome. Unless a hacked-off Senator picks up the phone and throws a tantrum, this thing is basically done. It got out a little earlier than WVU wanted, but that’s because, as I’m told, minds were just made up about one specific item.

There’s a lot of maneuvering outlined in the story, the particular moves the Mountaineers could make to accommodate the high-profile, highly lucrative game, but here’s what’s going to happen: Towson at home, WVU at Maryland, ECU disappears. Then it’s five Big 12 home games and four conference road games.

Now, that’s back-to-back seasons with just six home games and back-to-back-to-back seasons with a non-conference game at a neutral site (WVU v. Maryland is at M&T Bank Stadium in 2013 and WVU v. JMU is at FedEx in September, in lieu of a home game). The trick for 2014? How about a potential $3 million payday and a primetime, opening weekend spot on national television?

And how about the future of the ECU series, one I don’t think the current people in charge ever really liked?