The Miami Hurricanes and South Carolina Gamecocks have canceled their future home-and-home football series, both schools announced Monday.
Miami and South Carolina were previously scheduled to begin a home-and-home series at Williams-Brice Stadium in Columbia, S.C., on Sept. 5, 2026. The series was set to conclude at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens, Fla., on Sept. 18, 2027.
The series was canceled following the SEC’s announcement last week that it will begin playing a nine-game conference schedule in 2026. The ACC is also planning a move to a nine-game conference schedule, with the first season expected to be 2027.
News of the Miami-South Carolina cancellation comes on the heels of several other high profile series being axed. Those include Alabama-West Virginia, Nebraska-Tennessee, NC State-Florida, Ole Miss-BYU, Ole Miss-USC, Cal-Florida, Texas Tech-Colorado, and others.
With the cancellation, Miami now has three scheduled non-conference opponents in 2026. The Hurricanes are currently scheduled to host the Florida A&M Rattlers on Sept. 12 and the Central Michigan Chippewas on Sept. 26. A trip to face the Notre Dame Fighting Irish on a date to be announced is also included.
In 2027, Miami is scheduled to open the season against the Utah Utes in the Vegas Kickoff Classic at Allegiant Stadium on Sept. 4. The following week on Sept. 11, Miami is slated to host the Troy Trojans at Hard Rock Stadium.
South Carolina now has one non-conference opening on its 2026 schedule. The Gamecocks are slated to host the Towson Tigers on Sept. 12 and will close the season at the in-state rival Clemson Tigers on Nov. 28.
The Gamecocks’ slate in 2027 is now tentatively complete, and all three games are set to be played in Columbia. South Carolina will host the Furman Paladins on Sept. 4, Appalachian State Mountaineers on Sept. 11, and Clemson Tigers on Nov. 27.
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Hate to see a potentially nice series like this get canceled. Playing quality opponents is what college football should be all about.
If it means nine conference games it´s worth it.
Disagree. We need more matchups of quality teams from different conferences.
South Carolina will probably now play a schedule that rarely sees them play a non-conference game outside the state since Clemson will be their annual out of conference game.
Everyone will gripe about things like that now that they can’t gripe about the SEC not playing nine conference games.
We weren´t getting quality teams from different conferences playing anyway because for the most part SEC and ACC teams played one P4 opponent and three cupcakes in OOC.
Dave:
You’ll get to see more quality teams from different conferences playing each other.
In the playoffs.
And if you want to see more of those types of games, you should be supporting playoff expansion to 24/28 teams.
‘We weren´t getting quality teams from different conferences playing anyway because for the most part SEC and ACC teams played one P4 opponent and three cupcakes in OOC.”
You say that on a post where South Carolina and Miami are canceling a game.
Just this year we’ve had Texas/Ohio St., LSU/Clemson, Alabama has played both Florida State and Wisconsin… Among others.
So, yeah, you actually are getting quality games from teams in different conferences.
I said ¨for the most part¨ I commend the teams that do play 10 P4 games annually but most don´t. The SEC plays the most cupcakes of any P4 conference. That´s why Indiana and SMU (rightfully so) into the CFP over South Carolina, Alabama, and Ole Miss.
Saying the SEC plays the most cupcakes is an absolute lie.
They play the hardest conference schedules and they play just as hard an out of conference slate as anyone else.
Wont be surprised if Miami schedules another FCS opponent in it’s place, hopefully they schedule one of the new Pac-12 schools instead
They won´t schedule another FCS team. Only one victory against one counts toward bowl eligibility. That´s why you never see schools schedule more than one.
@BYUFan if Florida can schedule 2 FCS schools back in 2019, then Miami can do the same.
I still hate that Ole Miss was replaced with Boston College in 2028 and 2029
so 9 conference games and 3 ooc games vs the aac/sun belt? stankey rydes again
South Carolina plays Clemson every year and Miami has Notre Dame in 2026 and Utah in 2027.
At least in the case of SC, they’ll play Clemson OOC every year, so only 2 G5/FCS games.
Miami also should be getting a healthy dose of ND going forward as well, so they too likely only play 2 G5/FCS games most years.
how about the other 14 teams in the SEC or the SEC teams that dont have an ACC rival? and who knows of those ooc games or the rivalries will even survive? some acc teams are about to turn into wazzu
I think this sucks
it is not a lie to say the SEC plays the most cupcakes because they do. By the way whose schedule is harder, Texas or Utah? Hint: it´s not Texas.
Phil Steele SOS rankings:
Texas – 15th
Utah – 38th
TeamRankings,com has the non-conference Strength of Schedule rankings as:
1. Notre Dame
2. Miami
3. Alabama
4. Texas A&M
5. Ohio State
6. Florida
7. Texas
8. Florida State
9. Michigan
10. South Florida
11. Clemson
12. LSU
13. Baylor
14. Oklahoma
15. Arkansas
16. Tulane
17. Kansas
18. Duke
19. Cincinnati
20. Nebraska
21. Boise St.
22. Old Dominion
23. Auburn
24. Virginia Tech
25. Illinois
45. Utah
That;s 8 SEC teams in the 25 most difficult. (1 – Independent / 5 – ACC / 4 – Big Ten / 2 – American / 3 – Big 12 / 1 – Mtn West / 1 – Sun Belt)
It’s literally not even close.
Why doesn’t South Carolina get rid of cupcakes Towson in 2026 and Furman or Appalachian State in 2027 and why doesn’t Miami get rid of cupcakes Florida A & M or Central Michigan in 2026 and Troy in 2027 instead canceling the two games with each other?
College sports is falling apart slowing and failing the players and the fans. College football is cheating the fans, now power 4 teams don’t wanna play other power 4 teams and now that college athletes r getting pay millions they don’t play as hard anymore. These canallations is hurting and killing the sport.
College football is about 2 start getting boring