“The emotion is, my job is to go win the game,” Brown said this week. “It’s not weird to me. Pretty much for me it’s just the business at hand. It just happens it’s a school I attended as an undergrad. But in the business of sports, my task is to go win a game for Marshall University.”

This will be Price’s third time coaching against the Hokies at Lane Stadium. He was on the staff at FCS James Madison when the Dukes stunned Tech in 2010. He joined the Marshall staff after the next season and was on hand for the Hokies’ 29-21 triple-overtime win in 2013, the last time these two teams faced each other.

This will be Brown’s first time on the opposing sideline at Lane Stadium, where his jersey was retired in 2002.

“Those guys … are special guys to me,” longtime Tech defensive coordinator Bud Foster said. “They are two of my favorite players of all-time here. … Those are the guys that started the streak. I hope they don’t want to end the streak. I know deep down they’d like to see it keep going, but obviously they are professionals as well. They will want to come out and have their players play well and make a statement about them and who they are.”