{"id":142667,"date":"2026-02-04T00:15:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T00:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/142667\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T00:15:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T00:15:09","slug":"ucf-football-to-host-fiu-in-non-conference-matchup-in-2030","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/142667\/","title":{"rendered":"UCF football to host FIU in non-conference matchup in 2030"},"content":{"rendered":"

UCF<\/a> has agreed to host FIU at Acrisure Bounce House Stadium<\/a> in a non-conference matchup set for Sept. 7, 2030.<\/p>\n

The two schools announced the deal on Tuesday as the Knights continue to fill out their future football schedule.<\/p>\n

This would be the seventh meeting between the two in-state programs, but the first since Aug. 31, 2017. UCF holds a 4-2 record against the Panthers in the series, with the only losses coming in 2011 (17-10) and 2015 (15-14).<\/p>\n

The deal with FIU gives UCF two non-conference opponents for the 2030 season. The Knights are scheduled to host Florida as part of a 2-for-1 deal with the Gators.<\/p>\n

UCF athletics director Terry Mohajir<\/a> previously stated that his non-conference scheduling philosophy would have the Knights face a Power Five opponent, a Group of Five opponent, and a school from the Football Bowl Subdivision.<\/p>\n

UCF\u2019s future non-conference schedule is filled through 2029, but there are holes in 2030 (one spot), 2031 (two spots) and 2032 (three spots).<\/p>\n

2026<\/p>\n

Bethune-Cookman (Sept. 3); At Pittsburgh (Sept. 12); Georgia State (Sept. 19)<\/p>\n

2027<\/p>\n

At North Carolina (Sept. 4); UT-Martin (Sept. 11); Louisiana (Sept. 18)<\/p>\n

2028<\/p>\n

Maine (Aug. 31);\u00a0At Northwestern (Sept. 9);\u00a0FAU (Sept. 16)<\/p>\n

2029<\/p>\n

James Madison (Sept. 8); Pittsburgh (Sept. 15);\u00a0 UMass (TBD)<\/p>\n

2030<\/p>\n

FIU (Sept. 7); Florida (Sept. 14); TBD<\/p>\n

2031<\/p>\n

Northwestern (Sept. 6); TBD; TBD<\/p>\n

2032<\/p>\n

TBD; TBD; TBD<\/p>\n

2033<\/p>\n

At Florida (Sept. 3)<\/p>\n

Matt Murschel can be reached at mmurschel@orlandosentinel.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UCF has agreed to host FIU at Acrisure Bounce House Stadium in a non-conference matchup set for Sept.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":142668,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[111,28,114,1335,139,141,140,110,3865],"class_list":{"0":"post-142667","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-orlando","8":"tag-college-sports","9":"tag-florida","10":"tag-latest-headlines","11":"tag-orange-county","12":"tag-orlando","13":"tag-orlando-headlines","14":"tag-orlando-news","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-ucf-knights"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142667","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=142667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142667\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}