The Florida Gators continue to bolster their future football schedule with other non-conference Power 5 opponents.
On Tuesday Florida announced two games with Arizona State. Florida will travel to Tempe to play the Sun Devils in 2028 and Arizona State will return the favor and play in Gainesville in 2031.
Adding Arizona State in those years gives Florida three non-conference Power 5 opponents in each of those seasons. The Gators will host Colorado while traveling to Arizona State and Florida State in 2028. In 2031 Florida will host FSU and Arizona State while traveling to Austin to play the Texas Longhorns.
Scott Stricklin has made great efforts to improve Florida’s non-conference schedule. Attendance is down throughout collegiate and professional sports and Stricklin believes that scheduling bigger, more enticing games can help that. Florida has games scheduled with six Power 5 teams, not including the already annual matchup with Florida State.
Florida has series with USF (2021, 2022, 2025), Utah (2022, 2023), Miami (2024, 2025), Colorado (2028, 2029) and Texas (2030, 2031) to go along with the new Arizona State contract.
Future Power Five Non-Conference Opponents (by year)
• 2019: Florida State
• 2020: at Florida State
• 2021: Florida State
• 2022: Utah, at Florida State
• 2023: at Utah
• 2024: Miami
• 2025: at Miami
• 2028: Colorado, at Arizona State
• 2029: at Colorado
• 2030: Texas
• 2031: at Texas, Arizona State