I buried the lead, I suppose, with regard to scheduling in the story I wrote about the WVU v. Tennessee game we first started writing about last year. But this ain’t the story. So let’s get to it, and, it turns out, as first reported by Mack …

WVU and NC State working toward home-and-home football series in 2018-19. Second game would be in Morgantown, source tells @SportsDailyMail

— Mike Casazza (@mikecasazza) July 22, 2014

How about opening with Tennessee in Charlotte and then playing the Wolfpack down the road in 2018? WVU has five Big 12 home games that season, which necessitated playing at home the following season — and, sure, that can change.

The future non-conference schedules are strong(er) now, and we’re going to see the final 2016 name in a week or so. But Tuesday was about 2018 with N.C. State and Tennessee, the latter bringing WVU somewhere between $2.5 million and $3.2 million. We just need to figure out who’s the home team by Feb. 1, 2018.

The home team will have the exclusive right to televise or distribute the game and the home team’s conference keeps the revenue. The home team also has the first choice for jersey color, though the contract allows the visiting team to wear its dark home jersey.

The home team has to provide a chain crew, a clock operator, replay equipment, a press box announcer and a public address announcer and is responsible for press box operations. The officials are to be from a neutral conference, “preferably from the Big Ten.”

Both schools agreed to buy 12,500 tickets from CSE and can sell those to their fans. Up to 500 tickets are allotted to each marching band. The schools will also work together to each set aside 2,000 for students. Student tickets that are unsold on June 1, 2018, will go to the school’s general allotment.