Florida football sets home-and-home series with Colorado in 2028-29

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The Florida Gators will play a true nonconference road game outside the state of Florida … in 2029. Florida announced Wednesday that it has agreed to a home-and-home series with the Colorado Buffaloes that will be held in consecutive seasons one decade from now.

The Gators will host the Buffaloes on Sept. 9, 2028, with Florida travelling to Colorado the following year on Sept. 8, 2029. That latter game will mark the Gators’ first true nonconference road game outside the state of Florida since Sept. 21, 1991 (at Syracuse).

These will likely be the first games between UF and CU as the programs have not met previously and the SEC does not often play bowl games against the Pac-12.

Gators athletic director Scott Stricklin recently hinted that the football program was working on some future nonconference games against big-time programs. Florida is reportedly attempting to link up with Texas for a home-and-home series from 2030-31, according to Kirk Bohls of the Austin-American Statesman.

UF will open the 2019 season against Miami in a neutral-site game in Orlando on Aug. 24. Outside of the annual series against Florida State, the Colorado home-and-home is the only nonconference game against a Power Five program on Florida’s schedule through 2027.

Upcoming nonconference regular-season games

2019: vs. Miami (Orlando), vs. UT Martin, vs. Towson, vs. Florida State
2020: vs. Eastern Washington, vs. Southern Alabama, vs. New Mexico State, at Florida State
2021: vs. Samford, at South Florida, vs. Florida State
2022: vs. South Florida, at Florida State
2023: vs. Charlotte, vs. Florida State
2024: at Florida State
2025: vs. South Florida, vs. Florida State
2026: at Florida State
2027: vs. Florida State
2028: vs. Colorado, at Florida State
2029: at Colorado, vs. Florida State