Florida announces new home-and-home series with Notre Dame
After years of not playing many road games outside of the Sunshine State, Florida continues to beef up its non-conference schedule.
The latest scheduling news from Gainesville is a big one as the Gators are now set to travel to Notre Dame as the two programs have agreed to a new home-and-home series.
The first game in the series is set to take place during the 2031 season as Florida will travel to Notre Dame on Nov. 15. The Fighting Irish plan on making the return trip the next season, playing in The Swamp on Sept. 11 of 2032.
The two football programs have only met one time on the field, which came back in the 1992 Sugar Bowl in New Orleans. Notre Dame won that game 39-28 in a matchup famously known as the “The Cheerios Bowl.”
Following the news of this series, Florida’s 2031 non-conference schedule is now full as the Gators are set to play at Texas, host Arizona State and Florida State in 2031.
The Gators have one remaining opening in its 2032 non-conference schedule as Florida is currently scheduled to play at Florida State and host both NC State and Notre Dame.
Man, what it must be like to be the ‘turds and find yourself desperately copying your hated rival in a bid to stay relevant, but 15 years later.
HAH!
And UGA still won’t have another NC.
Change your name and admit you were wrong again maroon
LOL
In 2032, it will have been 62 years since UGA last won a national championship. And Hershel will likely be dead, and Lindsey will be in a wheelchair and unable to run, Lindsey, run!
Math major?
No…typing error. The 5 is next to the 6 on my cell keyboard.
It’s almost like this is happening across college football, teams scheduling big out of conference games because there’s this thing called a “playoff” that allows some wiggle room if you lose a game to a good opponent.
It’s only been around since, yknow, 2014 MORON! WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN FOR THE LAST 6 SEASONS???
A month and ten days after the ’32 game, I’ll be 100 going on 101, if. Don’t put any more stuff on here that’ll be more than 3-4 years from now.
Maybe you should let the younger generation schedule football games. Most schedules are set 10-20 years in advance, with a few open spots filled in as time changes things. Looks like everyone is changing their future schedules to more attractive games for the people buying tickets. That’s what happens when attendance continues to decline.
Well, as someone who will be in my mid-30’s by then, I’m extremely excited about this game. Sorry you’re so crotchety that you can’t be happy for younger fans.
Much better than what we’ve got this year. I am still waiting for Strickland to apologize for the insult to Gator fans he created for 21.
You will probably need to learn his name before you expect to get an apology.
Good for the SEC. Here’s hoping for a blowout by the Irish for those of us that are still alive to watch this game.
What’s even funnier is 1980 will probably still be the only rebuttal needed when it comes to UGA in 2032…
You think Saban will still be around then or what?
I would take a Saban-less Alabama winning a NC sooner than UGA.
Bama has won the NC with plenty of coaches not named Saban….. UGA?
Yawn. Keep trolling.
It’s too easy…. 1980
Georgia fans being Georgia fans, rooting for Notre Shame over the other SEC team. Just as vain and childish as always. Eternally mad that Kirby gets less done with more than Mark Richt. UGA, where 5-stars go to become 3-stars.
Florida Atlantic and Samford must have been busy that decade…
After that opening game bi**ch slapping from Clempson, you mutts are going to wish you would have just played Samford…
They play Samford in 2022 lol
And?
So your joke about Florida playing Samford is completely contradictory
It wasn’t about Samford, it was about them playing Samford, FAU, USF and FSU all though I will admit from a historical perspective FSU wasn’t always a pitiful cupcake.
Let me ask you a serious question, if you were a UF season ticket holder and those 4 teams along with Vandy and Tennessee are your 6 home games would you be happy? It’s frgn pathetic, especially for a University that wants to think of itself as elite…
Swap USF for Bama bud
Fair enough, 6 cupcake games out of 7 in Florida…
Curious as to what you think makes a game a “cupcake game.” A game that isn’t vs a top 10 team? I’m sure when Florida scheduled USF 6 or 8 years ago USF was a program on the up. If you think every game against a team you are supposed to beat is a “cupcake,” I am going to have to disagree. While Florida should beat Tennessee and Florida State, I would never consider those a cupcake game. Neither would I with USF.
I also wouldn’t consider any SEC game a cupcake game except for Vandy with most teams.
I can appreciate your opinion. I look at USF for Florida not being a cupcake like I would Ga State not being a Tenn cupcake or Troy not being an UGa cupcake…does that mean it won’t be a surprisingly competitive game? Of course not. We almost lost to Nicholls State, Bama did lose to ULM, Tenn lost to Ga St, App St beat Michigan, it happens, but it certainly doesn’t erase the fact that on paper it was a cupcake game. I look at it this way, anytime your team is favored by 3 TDs or more, that’s a cupcake game. Do you see UF being favored by less than that for any of those 4 nonC games they have scheduled…maybe FSU, definitely Vandy and probably Tenn.
Oh my aching ass… I guess Charleston Southern and UAB were busy too. Give me a break everyone plays at least 1 or 2 cupcakes.
1 or two, yes…you left off that we have ClemGoob-Oregon-Okla-ClemGoob the next 4 years as 1 of our cupcakes, who y’all got, Ga Tech???
Wasn’t referring to Ole Miss. I was referring to Florida and Georgia’s schedule, which both have nothing to do with Ole Miss’s schedule. I said every team plays 1 or 2 cupcakes a year, which is true. Ass hat
Ass hat or not, every team does indeed play 1 or 2 nonC cupcakes every year as they should, not 4
Don’t forget that powerhouse Georgia Tech on your schedule every year AssHumper
You mean that Ga Tech team that your gator empire FINALLY passed on the all time football wins list this year, AssLizard? Only took y’all 115 years to catch them…congrats. Another milestone. If Only y’all can capture 89 more wins than us in the next century or two and y’all have a good shot of passing us on the all time wins by the year 2125…go Gators
It’s funny how Dawg fans are the only ones who brag about all time wins. I wonder why that is? Maybe someday you’ll finally get to brag about what actually matters. The more impressive feat for GT is winning a title more recently than UGA.
…I can understand why a Gator fan wouldn’t want to talk about it Joe…about to surrender that number 26 spot to North Dakota St, thank goodness they’ve played 50 less games than y’all and canceled their fall season to trail by 1…but look at the bright side…7th most wins of any SEC team, comfortably ahead of Arky, I’m impressed…
Not hard to imagine how much the game will be different by then.
Obsession –
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*The state of being obsessed with someone or something.
The shoe seems to fit and we learned a lot about shoes this season. Class dismissed
I have no idea what you are talking about.
I get what tailwhip’s saying, but it should’ve been directed somewhere other than at you. Yours is the only comment here with a “G” next to it that isn’t childishly snotty.
Yeah, I guess.
Wrong guy, direct that at someone who’s actually being childish about this. When you see a decent Georgia fan, be nice to them, there’s not a whole lot of them out there.
Positive reinforcement and all that.
Notre Dame, for all the criticism they receive, seem to always play a schedule with a bunch of big name teams. And it seems like they are scheduling more and more.
Without a conference, they pretty much have to in order to be in the playoff conversation.
I think that it is a good thing for UF to be scheduling these types of nonconference games. These are the types of shiny pearls on the schedule (provided that there is a W beside them) that catches the eyes of CFP selection committee. Stricklin knows this better than just about anybody, since he is on the committee. Whether you are a fan of UGA or not, you should be able to give us a little credit for moving our nonconference schedule in that direction before most others. Kirby Smart started campaigning for that just as soon as he was hired.
Agreed. Fans have wanted this for a long, long time. If you’re a UF fan, 2031 is the season to save money for. At Texas, At ND, host LSU (as long as the cross division games don’t switch) and maybe a good team from the west, although it’s hard to project that kind of thing when we’re talking a decade from now.
Should be a fun season. I would love to see Florida schedule a home-and-home with Penn State. I really wanna see a white-out game.
I would really love to see UF schedule a home-and-home with UGA. I am not much of a fan of the current arrangement.
I think it would be cool to try for a series. I actually live in Gainesville and Jax is only an hour and change away, so the current setup is pretty convenient for me.
The last time we had a home-and-home series was before I was born. It would be cool to experience, I think.
To your point, it is an hour from Gainesville to Jax by bus. On the other side it is several hours on a bus, or a plane flight from Athens to Jax. Much closer to & for UF. If game is going to stay in Jax at all, it should alternate every other year with the GA Dome. Change is coming!
Wow, you are quite the youngster TallG8r…so you missed out on the SOS hang a half hundred on em game in Athens, eh? I wish I could say the same…Goff’s last stand.
What was the Athens Banner Herald headline leading up to the game back in 1995? I think I recall something like, “Sith Returns”. Unfortunately, it turned out to be true.
And clearly that Darth Vader symbolism has not been lost on the current member of the Sith Order!
That’s true, great point. I never thought about the correlation when gooberhead but on his Halloween clown costume…makes sense now! Someone should tell the new world order that Walking like Spurrier, talking like Spurrier and drinking like SLurrier only works if you win like Spurrier…
Hilarious amount of trolling for an article about a scheduled series 10 years from now.
Off-season boredom has set in.
CFB off season is long and harsh. Part of what makes it unique is that it combines a sport which thrives on a 24-hr news cycle with the fact that it also has the longest off season of any major sport.
How exactly is my comment trolling? I made no disparaging comment about UF. If anything, my comment is congratulatory to UF, on reaching a necessary mark for the advancement of the program.
Having said that, I notice you also comment on articles about teams other than UF. Is that trolling, or is there some required qualification for doing so, of which I am not aware?
And finally, I am a little bored with the current doldrums of college football. I would happily comment on UGA articles, but do not have the opportunity to do so, since they are as of late, few & far between on this site.
I was referring to Corch and Leghumper. Surprised no one caught Corch’s abysmal failure at basic math.
Leghumpers have feelings too, thx a lot nash
I see the ND game is in mid-November, so I suppose it’s only fair the UF game is in September.
Gotta use the weather advantage every chance you get.
Look at UFs 2031 schedule. Has any college football team in the last 30 years chose to play all P5 teams? I doubt it and I know UGA hasn’t
Yes. Many B1G teams have scheduled all P5 opponents in the past.
And by 3031 it will probably be common place.
JTF, my post was not directed at you personally. You must’ve jumped in on top of me while i was pecking the keyboard. My apologies sir.
And i’m making an assumption you are indeed a “sir”. If not, my apologies seconded. Heck, just throw a shoe at me and i’ll sit down.
No worries.
I think I read Ben’s post wrong as well.
So, we all do it.
You would be wrong Ben…EVERY SEC including UGA, every Big10 team, most ACC and Big12 teams and the PAC12 all chose to play all P5 teams this past season…technically
Obviously this season doesn’t count since the sec teams didn’t choose to they had to
WOW! UF is actually going to play an OOC game outside the state of Florida.
We have quite a few scheduled but nice try