TALLAHASSEE, Florida -- Our city’s two college football programs recently released their fall schedules.
There was a rumor Florida State University asked Florida A&M University to be a last-minute replacement for Wofford University, which pulled out of a Sept. 21 game in Tallahassee. Supposedly, FAMU declined because it had already agreed to play at Ohio State on that date.
Fueling the rumor was the fact that FSU filled the date with Bethune-Cookman University, which like FAMU is a historically black university and member of the second-tier NCAA Football Championship Subdivision.
In truth, FSU never contacted FAMU, nor was FAMU miffed it didn’t. Ohio State is paying FAMU $900,000; FSU is paying BCC $450,000.
Still, it seems a good time to suggest — as some of us have suggested before — that FSU and FAMU start playing each other in football. We believe such a game would be good for both schools and good for Tallahassee.
Though that’s not an attitude shared by all — and perhaps flies against previous examples.
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