The Florida Gators and Florida A&M Rattlers have rescheduled their future football game, FBSchedules.com has learned.
Florida was previously scheduled to host Florida A&M at Ben Hill Griffin Stadium in Gainesville, Fla., on Oct. 11, 2025. However, Florida later replaced Florida A&M on its 2025 schedule with a season-opener against the Long Island Sharks on Aug. 30.
The Florida A&M contest was likely canceled due to a conflict with the 2025 SEC football schedule. When the schedule was released in December, it was revealed that Florida will travel to play the Texas A&M Aggies on Oct. 11 that season.
According to a copy of an amendment obtained from the University of Florida via a state public records request, the 2025 Florida-Florida A&M game has been rescheduled and will now be played five seasons later on Aug. 31, 2030. The amendment to the contract was executed on March 26, 2024.
Florida was originally contracted to pay Florida A&M a $500,000 guarantee for the game in 2025. Per the terms of the contract amendment, the Gators agreed to pay the Rattlers $300,000 on or before Feb. 1, 2025 and will pay them another $300,000 on or before Feb. 1, 2031, following the completion of the rescheduled game.
Florida A&M University is a public historically black land-grant university located in Tallahassee, Fla. The Rattlers compete in the Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC) in the Football Championship Subdivision (FCS).
Florida and Florida A&M have only met once on the gridiron in their history. The Gators, led by head coach Ron Zook, defeated the Rattlers in that contest, 63-3, on Sept. 13, 2003 in Gainesville.
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Florida won one for the Zooker!
This sickens me—why is this allowed?
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Great article John! I am in almost complete agreement with you. The SEC is the best conference in college football yet they schedule games like scared cats. Just look at the upcoming 2025 Mississippi and Missouri schedules. Both play 8 home games including one against an FCS team. Ole miss plays no OCC P4 team Got to give Mizzou credit for scheduling one P4 team in Kansas. I’d rather see them stop playing FCS teams, schedule at least 2 OCC P4 teams, and play an equal number (i.e. 6-6) of home/road games. That would make a competitive schedule where SEC teams can stop bragging about their bloated won/loss record and talk about there willingness to play and compete against anyone anywhere.
I fully support P4 teams playing cupcake games vs G6 & FCS teams.
Dan, I think the consensus is against your position here. College football is now semi-pro football and the teams need to schedule like it. I’d rather see say Alabama go 9-3 against great competition than 11-1 just to fill the stat box.
Klutchpike Here are My four P4 OOC games that I am interested in.
1. Big Ten vs SEC
2. Notre Dame vs USC
3. Iowa vs Iowa State
4. Georgia vs Georgia Tech
Preach Klutchpike! Preach!
At least its being played at the beginning of the season and not the end.
BYUfan I fully agree with you buddy I like to see cupcake games in SEC be played at the beginning than at the end.