Once-in-a-lifetime event draws many former Tech alums and will be talked about for years
BLACKSBURG – Eighteen years ago, Bruton Smith came up with this crazy notion to play a football game inside of a racetrack.
The owner/CEO of Speedway Motorsports, Inc., never shies from taking a risk and now, 18 years later, Smith’s idea is coming to fruition, as Virginia Tech and Tennessee will kick off in less than 30 hours right in the middle of the 89-year-old’s beloved Bristol Motor Speedway.
The crowd is expected to be in the 150,000 range, which comes as no surprise considering the schools haven’t met in the regular season since 1937 – and they’re separated by only 236 miles of asphalt known as Interstate 81.