July 27, 2005

FSU, Miami in talks to move game

Both Florida State and Miami want to move their annual game, held on Labor Day last year and this year, back to it's traditional October schedule slot. The ACC's Labor Day agreement with ABC mandated that the first two years be the FSU-Miami game. If the FSU-Miami game moves back to October, then another ACC matchup would take it's place on Labor Day.

"Once this year's game is over we'll re-evaluate with the two schools and with ABC. Our contractual arrangement with ABC doesn't require that that game be Florida State and Miami," ACC commissioner John Swofford said.

But the league picked its two pre-eminent programs after expansion in order to try to improve the conference's football reputation.

"It could be two other ACC teams, but it's hard to find a matchup that's more attractive than that," Swofford said.

Miami's Larry Coker:

"You know we don't have any preseason games or exhibition games like the NFL. We don't get to play a couple times and see how this quarterback situation is, and the same with Florida State," Coker said.

"You're going to go out and test the water against an outstanding football team in a game that can mean so much to your season. If I had the ideal schedule I'd like to have two games against teams we were better than they were and had a good chance to win those games."

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