UCF, Boise State Announce College Football Home-and-Home Series

    UCF and Boise State announced a home-and-home series in football for 2021 and 2023.

    Boise State and UCF announced a future home-and-home series in football on Tuesday, setting up two of the most currently dominant Group of Five programs to visit each other’s home stadium in 2021 and 2023.

    The Broncos will travel to Spectrum Stadium for a game on Sept. 4, 2021, then the Knights will go to Boise for a game on Sept. 9, 2023, according to a copy of the signed contract obtained by Stadium.

    The home team will pay the visiting team a $200,000 flat guarantee for the game by March 1 of the following year and the home team will retain all income from game concessions, game programs and radio rights for broadcasting the game. The visiting team will be responsible for the assignment of officials.

    The $200,000 guarantee appears to be standard for UCF’s home-and-home agreements in football.

    In home-and-homes with North Carolina for 2018 and 2020, and 2024-25, the home team agrees to pay the visiting team $200,000 amount as a guarantee, according to a contract obtained by Stadium. UCF’s home-and-home with Louisville for 2021-22 stipulates that the home team pays the visiting team $250,000.

    The visiting team will receive 300 complimentary tickets, and it will have the option of acquiring up to 2,700 additional tickets from the home team.

    If either school breaches the contract, it will owe the other school $1 million in liquidated damages.

    At the time of the scheduling announcement, the two programs are the only Group of Five schools to be ranked in the latest AP Top 25 Poll with Boise State at No. 16 and UCF at No. 22.

    The announcement comes at an interesting time in regards to UCF and its standing in the sport nationally.

    The Knights lost at Pittsburgh in Week 4, which ended their 25-game regular season winning streak that dated back to November 2016. UCF fell seven spots in the AP poll as a result.

    The previous week, UCF crushed Stanford, but right or wrong, the loss to Pitt surely hurt the perception of the Knights nationally, especially among fans of Power Five schools.

    The move to schedule a home-and-home series with Boise State will give UCF (and Boise State) the opportunity for a marquee non-conference win in two upcoming seasons. Even if neither school plays in a Power Five conference, both are currently operating at a Power Five-level.

    In fact, Boise State might be one of the best programs UCF can schedule in light of its disinterest in accepting scheduling offers like Florida’s reported 2-for-1 proposal.

    UCF’s announcement on Tuesday included a “future opponents” graphic that showed the Knights’ scheduled games against North Carolina, FIU, Boise State, Louisville, Georgia Tech and BYU.

    There’s a chance that Boise State could prove to be the best of those six opponents, given that Mack Brown, Scott Satterfield and Geoff Collins are each in their first season at their respective schools, making it hard to project what the future holds at North Carolina, Louisville and Georgia Tech.

    Meanwhile, Boise State has sustained an extremely high level of success for a school that’s moved from the Big West to the WAC to the Mountain West, winning at least 10 games in 16 of the last 20 seasons.

    The Broncos have appeared in the AP Top 25 Poll every year since 2002.

    Update: This story was updated to include the guarantee amount for UCF’s home-and-home series with Louisville and North Carolina.

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