Saturday’s season opener will not be the last chapter written in the Florida-Miami rivalry.
The two schools have agreed to a home-and-home series starting in 2024, according to Brett McMurphy of Stadium. The programs will meet in Gainesville first before facing off in Miami Gardens the following year.
As things currently stand, the 2025 matchup will be the first time the Gators play a road game against a Power 5 team that isn’t FSU since their 2013 visit to Miami. Florida will play three in-state opponents that year, with the USF Bulls also on the schedule.
The Gators and Hurricanes met annually from 1938 to 1987 (with the exception of 1943). Since then, the two teams have met sporadically with Miami winning seven of the last eight games (including the 2001 Sugar Bowl). UM leads the all-time series 29-26 and was victorious in the last meeting.
The games in 2024 and 2025 will be the first home-and-home contests between the two teams since their last home-and-home series in 2002 and 2003. The front-leg will mark Miami’s first visit to Gainesville since 2008, when Tim Tebow and the Gators finished victorious 26-3.
Florida and Miami will kick off college football’s 150th season this Saturday night in Orlando, followed by a 10:30 p.m. kickoff for Arizona-Hawaii, the only other FBS game in Week 0.
The Gators, according to Odds Shark, are currently a seven-point favorite.
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Tim Tebow led the Gators to a 26-3 victory last time Florida and Miami played in Gainesville.
