WVU will take the floor in an exhibition game nine days before that as the Mountaineers will play the Wheeling Cardinals in Morgantown on Sunday, Oct. 26.
The first five regular-season games for the Mountaineers will be held inside the WVU Coliseum.
The four home games that follow the contest against Mount St. Mary's will be against Campbell (Nov. 6), Lehigh (Nov. 9), Pitt (Nov. 13) and Lafayette (Nov. 17).
West Virginia will head down to ÂÒÂ×ÄÚÉä, South Carolina, for a guaranteed two games in the Shriners Children's ÂÒÂ×ÄÚÉä Classic in November.
The Mountaineers will tip off the event with a game against the Clemson Tigers on Nov. 21. If they win, they will play the winner of Georgia vs. Xavier on Nov. 23.
After a week in South Carolina, WVU will have a two-game homestand in Morgantown with games against Mercyhurst (Nov. 30) and Coppin State (Dec. 3).
West Virginia will play its first game in ÂÒÂ×ÄÚÉä since 2016 as the Mountaineers will face the Wake Forest Demon Deacons on Saturday, Dec. 6, the first meeting between the two since 2005.
Two of WVU's final three nonconference games will be back in Morgantown against Little Rock (Dec. 9) and Mississippi Valley State (Dec. 22).
The Mountaineers will travel to Cleveland on Saturday, Dec. 13 to face the Ohio State Buckeyes, which will be the third time the two will play in Cleveland, as the other two meetings came in 2019 and 2023.
Among WVU's nonconference foes, the Buckeyes and Musketeers are the only teams the Mountaineers have losing records against.
Campbell and Little Rock are the only two teams the Mountaineers have never played.
The meeting against the Demon Deacons and, potentially, the Georgia Bulldogs are two teams WVU haven't played in more than 20 years.
Everyone else has played WVU within the last 10 years.
Here's a breakdown of how WVU has stacked up against all its nonconference opponents (last meeting is in parentheses):
