The Florida Gators and Arizona State Sun Devils are canceling their future home-and-home football series, according to a report from Swamp247.
Florida and Arizona State were previously scheduled to begin a home-and-home series at Mountain America Stadium in Tempe, Ariz., on Sept. 16, 2028. The series was set to conclude at Ben Hill Griffin Stadium in Gainesville, Fla., three seasons later on Sept. 13, 2031.
According to the Swamp247 report, Florida and Arizona State have “agreed in principle” to cancel their future home-and-home series. The contract for the series, which was agreed to by both schools in November 2019, includes a clause that will allow Florida to terminate without owing a penalty (relevant portions below):
Notwithstanding the foregoing, if the Terminating Party cancels because of:
(II) A uniformly applicable change in conference scheduling of the Terminating Party’s conference that increases the number of conference football games the Terminating Party must play during a season in which a Game is scheduled or some other change in conference affiliation which prohibits one of the teams from playing a game, provided the Terminating Party communicates this requirement to the other Party no later than eighteen (18) months prior to each respective Game
…then the Terminating Party will not owe or be entitled to any guaranteed payment under Section 2 or the contract termination fee under this Section 11 ($1.25 million for each canceled Game)
Last month, the SEC announced it will begin playing a nine-game conference football schedule in 2026, while also keeping at least one annual non-conference opponent from a Power conference. As a result, numerous teams will be making adjustments to their future football schedules for various reasons.
One reason will be due to the home/away game imbalance that a nine-game schedule brings. Every other season, league members will have four SEC games at home and five on the road. Add in the annual non-conference rivalry game with Florida State, and there is a possibility that Florida would have six or even seven power opponents away from the Swamp in 2028.
The cancellation of the series is also beneficial for Arizona State in terms of travel, as the Sun Devils were a member of the Pac-12 when the Florida series was contracted. Now in the Big 12, Arizona State can have several cross-country trips in conference play each season.
If it comes to fruition, the future Arizona State series will be the third canceled for Florida in the last year following series with California and NC State.
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It is right decision Florida made for 2028.
Also, in 2028 I would like Arizona State to reunite with USC with an OOC game with past Pac 10 later Pac 12 rival.
Florida-Arizona State got cancelled.
Meaning it's official? There is nothing official yet.
What I saw last night was Colorado and UCF series are likely to get axed next.
Colorado and UCF are both in the Big 12. They must play each other on a conference regulated schedule.
Its Cal and NC State are getting axed, according to this (taken from 247Sports): https://www.gainesville.com/story/sports/college/football/2025/09/12/why-florida-football-is-cancelling-future-series-with-three-power-four-opponents/86111855007/
Future series with Colorado, Notre Dame, and UCF are not getting axed, as of now.
247 butchered the story, and then On3 copied them.
The Florida-Cal series was canceled in July of LAST YEAR and was officially announced by Cal:
https://fbschedules.com/california-florida-cancel-future-home-and-home-football-series/
We, FBSchedules, exclusively reported the Florida-NC State series cancellation in OCTOBER:
https://fbschedules.com/nc-state-florida-cancel-future-home-and-home-football-series/
The only new item that 247 reported is that there is a handshake or verbal agreement to cancel the Florida-Arizona State series, but there is nothing official from either school yet.
Thanks for the clarification, Kevin.
I will be surprised to see that UCF game in 2030 survive.
Assuming that Florida-Georgia goes back to a neutral site, Florida is looking at 4 home, 4 away, and one neutral site game in the SEC. If they are willing to play only six games a year in Gainesville plus one game in Jacksonville, then they can only have one non-conference away game each year as part of a home-and-home arrangement. They are set up that way in 2028-2032, assuming the ASU game is cancelled, except for then needing to cancel UCF in 2030 (because they aren't cancelled FSU).
The ruination of college football depending on your conference to determine how good you are. Believing only your conference is the epitome of college football is narcissism. Greed is ruining college football.
I want CFB team to do with their money is to give it to certain causes & that would be positive to help others.
Greed has been ruining college football for over a century now.
Richard TV is a must for college football fans now that prices are skyrocketing at CFB stadiums.
I sure hope that the ND/Florida home and home is not canceled.
Will UF continue to play the junior college up in the panhandle?
The FL legislature will make sure they will play FSU.
FYI, those of us outside of FL just don't differentiate much between UF and FSU.
Florida State is much more meaningful than Arizona State for Florida fully agreeable Richard.
Stinks for ASU to give up two easy wins.
lol
Forget OOC conference games is real meaning of CFB.