Steve Spurrier and South Carolina declined an invitation to open the 2016 season against Florida State in Orlando, Fla., he told Tim Brando on the radio Tuesday.

Spurrier suggested the team turned down the game because South Carolina was already booked, but the Gamecocks are scheduled to play Clemson, East Carolina and Coastal Carolina in the 2016 non-conference schedule, with room for one more game.

“Shoot, our plate’s full,” Spurrier told Tim Brando on Tuesday on the radio. “Those Capital One Citrus Bowl people last year when we were down there said, ‘Coach, why don’t you come down here and open up with FSU next year in the new stadium?’ I said, ‘No, no. No thank you.’ But they got Ole Miss to do it!

“That’s a lot of money. It’s a $2.5, 3 million payout. But I said, ‘No, our plate’s full. No thank you.'”

For now, the SEC has elected to remain on an eight-game conference schedule with four non-conference opponents.

The Big 12 and Pac-12 already play nine-game conference schedules and the Big Ten is moving to a nine-game schedule in 2016.

The ACC (starting in 2017) and SEC (starting in 2016) are requiring each member school to schedule at least one power-conference opponent each season.

Spurrier suggested that SEC schools should consider scheduling not one, but two such games in the non-conference schedule, and that teams other than Georgia (Georgia Tech), Florida (Florida State) and Kentucky (Louisville) should find a strong annual rival.

Listen to Spurrier talk SEC scheduling below.