OK, so I know that a lot of folks are of the mindset of “WTF??? Why are we playing an away game vs ODU?”
There’s a lot of reasons, I’m sure. But the biggest one(s) is we needed a game, and I suspect the payout was attractive enough. There’s also that pesky little thing about the staff wanting to make some recruiting inroads in the area so, yeah.
The Pack will have the distinction of being the first BCS conference program to visit the Monarchs in Norfolk, so there’s that FWIW (I don’t have a citation to prove that, but I did hear it or read it somewhere earlier this week), which might also help with the ‘foot in the door’ type of thing as far as recruiting.