Florida State, Georgia agree to home-and-home football series

Florida State and Georgia have agreed to a home-and-home football series between two of the top programs in the country.

The Seminoles will host Georgia to open the 2027 season on Sept. 4 and will play in Athens on Sept. 16, 2028. It’ll be their first regular-season meetings since 1965.

“We are excited to announce this series and showcase our commitment to providing games in Doak Campbell Stadium that will be attractive for our fans,” FSU interim athletic director David Coburn said in a statement.

“Our non-conference schedule is among the strongest in the country with an annual game against Florida in addition to regular matchups with Notre Dame, and this series with Georgia fits the criteria for how we want to build future schedules. I also want to thank Coach (Willie) Taggart for his commitment to facing high-quality opponents that will excite fans and continue to strengthen Florida State’s place among the preeminent programs in the country.”

The move is somewhat of a shift in FSU’s scheduling philosophy, because the ’Noles have frequently played marquee non-conference games at neutral sites, including the 2017 opener against Alabama in Atlanta, the 2016 opener against Ole Miss in Orlando and the upcoming 2020 game against West Virginia in Atlanta. The obvious exception is the rivalry with Florida.

This year’s opener against Boise State in Jacksonville started as a home-and-home series before moving the 2019 game to a neutral site. The Seminoles will still travel to Boise in 2020.

“This is a series with history dating back to the early years of FSU football, and I’m glad we are resuming it,” Taggart said. “These two games will be great for fans of both programs, especially those interested in traveling to experience the atmosphere here in Tallahassee or in Athens, and will give us another opportunity to play in front of our large group of alumni in the state of Georgia.”