Florida needs eight home games a year in order to sustain their program. The football program is basically what funds their entire sports program. They get more money for home games, obviously, and the Florida St game alternates with whether or not they "lose" a home game in the SEC schedule for the Cocktail party. They were able to travel to Miami a few years back (and go to Miami in 2013) because of the extra week of football allowed in those seasons. I believe they have a home and home with USF in 2012 and 2011. I'm not exactly sure of your point. Well I am sure of it, and it is stupid. As I said before location of a game hardly matters and a road game in Tallahassee is going to be no different than a road game in Los Angeles, provided the two teams are similar that year. That being said your only point has to be that they're pussies and don't schedule tough OOC games. They play the SEC schedule every year. They play Florida State every year, who was top 5 for like an eternity before the last few years. The other two or three games aren't much, but hey considering the rest of the schedule it's fine. They have problems attracting tougher matchups because elite teams only like to schedule home and homes. Florida's AD says they'd lose too much money to go on the road more than they already do. This thing is blown to the point of stupidity. A team that's good that goes on the road for tough OOC games as much as most good programs might go to a tough out of state one once every third year. Most good programs have rivals who are ONLY in their conference. Two of Florida's biggest traditional rivals, Miami and Florida State are not in the same conference but are in the same state. Most teams who have rivals outside their conference only play tough non-conference games against their rivals. The other ones are usually cupcakes. Teams like Oklahoma, Ohio State and others don't have traditional power house rivals outside their conference, so they schedule a home and home with a good program. That's exactly what Florida does. In reality, this "difference" in scheduling is maybe four or five games over the course of the last 20 years. Pretty much nothing considering that's four or five out of nearly two hundred and forty. And if you think that because of this Florida plays a crap schedule. Um, no. Sagarin ranking of their schedule in the BCS era. 1998 $47 1999 #12 2000 #27 2001 #23 2002 #9 2003 #7 2004 #57 2005 #40 2006 #8 2007 #3 2008 #4 And on average the toughest schedules in america in the BCS era 1. 77.18 Stanford 2. 76.98 Washington 3. 76.95 Southern Cal 4. 76.88 UCLA 5. 76.50 Florida State 6. 76.31 Colorado 7. 75.94 Notre Dame 8. 75.89 Michigan 9. 75.86 North Carolina 10. 75.79 Florida