{"id":132825,"date":"2026-01-26T23:58:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T23:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/132825\/"},"modified":"2026-01-26T23:58:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T23:58:07","slug":"floridas-visit-to-florida-state-moved-to-friday-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/132825\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida&#8217;s visit to Florida State moved to Friday night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>GAINESVILLE \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.orlandosentinel.com\/2025\/11\/29\/lorida-gators-football-florida-state-seminoles-billy-gonzales-mike-norvell-sec-acc\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Florida will visit Florida State<\/a> on Friday for the second time in the Gators\u2019 past three visits to Tallahassee to accommodate ACC television scheduling.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of playing Nov. 28, the game will take place the Friday after Thanksgiving. Time and TV designation for the game will be announced at a later date.<\/p>\n<p>The 2022 game at Doak Campbell Stadium, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.orlandosentinel.com\/2022\/11\/26\/uf-qb-anthony-richardson-laments-missed-opportunities-during-fsu-loss\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a 45-38 Florida loss<\/a>, also was played on a Friday night. The move caused consternation because of the conflict with high school football playoff games.<\/p>\n<p>The Gators\u2019 last visit to Tallahassee ended in a 31-11 Florida win as the Seminoles finished 2-10 after going 13-1 in 2023. The Gators routed the Seminoles 40-21 behind <a href=\"https:\/\/www.orlandosentinel.com\/2025\/11\/30\/rb-baugh-gets-ufs-1st-1000-yard-season-in-decade\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">266 rushing yards by Jadan Baugh<\/a> on Nov. 29 in the Swamp. One of only four Florida wins in 2025 left FSU 5-7 and out of contention for a bowl game.<\/p>\n<p>The Gators\u2019 struggles led the school to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.orlandosentinel.com\/2025\/10\/19\/florida-gators-sec-football-billy-napier-scott-stricklin-lane-kiffin-marcus-freeman-eli-drinkwitz\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">fire Billy Napier Oct. 19<\/a>, and eventually <a href=\"https:\/\/www.orlandosentinel.com\/2025\/11\/30\/florida-gators-football-jon-sumrall-coach-lane-kiffin-billy-napier-scott-stricklin\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">hire Tulane\u2019s Jon Sumrall<\/a> Nov. 30. Despite calls outside the program for a change, FSU ultimately decided to keep Mike Norvell for another season, his seventh with the Seminoles.<\/p>\n<p>The two longtime rivals have split their past four meetings after the Gators had won three straight games in a series dating to 1958. The schools did not play in 2020 because the COVID-19 pandemic led the SEC to play a 10-game regular-season schedule within the conference.<\/p>\n<p>Edgar Thompson can be reached at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.orlandosentinel.com\/2026\/01\/26\/florida-gators-football-florida-state-seminoles-friday-night-acc-sec-jon-sumrall-mike-norvell\/mailto:egthompson@orlandosentinel.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">egthompson@orlandosentinel.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GAINESVILLE \u2014 Florida will visit Florida State on Friday for the second time in the Gators\u2019 past three&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":64938,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[111,28,2530,30,29,2496,114,110],"class_list":{"0":"post-132825","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-florida","8":"tag-college-sports","9":"tag-florida","10":"tag-florida-gators","11":"tag-florida-headlines","12":"tag-florida-news","13":"tag-gainesville","14":"tag-latest-headlines","15":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132825\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}