BLACKSBURG - ESPN, along with the Virginia Tech Athletics Department, officially announced Wednesday that Tech’s football game against Boise State University at FedEx Field in Landover, Md., has been moved to Labor Day (Monday, Sept. 6) to open the 2010 season. Kickoff for the game, scheduled to be televised to a national audience on ESPN, is set for 8 p.m. at the home field of the Washington Redskins.

The game had originally been scheduled for Oct. 2 (Saturday).

This will mark the first time Boise State and Virginia Tech have faced each other in football and it will be Tech’s second game at FedEx Field (Southern Cal, 2004).

The rest of Tech’s 2010 schedule will be released Thursday at 2 o’clock by the ACC.