Back in January 2013, Virginia notified Penn State that it would not be making the trip for a mid-September contest at Beaver Stadium, the latter half of a scheduled home-and-home series.

The Nittany Lions had already traveled to Charlottesville in 2012 for an eventual one-point loss, the second game of the Bill O'Brien era. Then, once the Cavaliers dropped their traveling end of the bargain with Penn State, they announced a series with Oregon that would begin the week prior to their canceled trip to Happy Valley.

Four years later, the Lions and Virginia have yet to reschedule their date at Beaver Stadium. However, as Sandy Barbour told the media Thursday during a stop on the Penn State coaches caravan, those efforts are still ongoing.

"It's still floating out there," Barbour said. "We're trying to find a good place for it [on the schedule]."

Presently, the Lions future non-conference opponents over the next five seasons are as follows: Akron, Pitt and Georgia State in 2017, Appalachian State, Pitt and Kent State in 2018, Idaho, Buffalo and Pitt in 2019, Virginia Tech in 2020 and Ball State and Auburn in 2021.

Penn State opens its 2017 campaign against Akron on Sept. 2. Kickoff from Beaver Stadium is TBD.