The Gamecocks of the SEC have reached an agreement on a home-and-home series with Central Florida of Conference USA. The Gamecocks will travel to Orlando in September 2013, and the Knights will return the road favor the same month in 2015.
In addition to an extra trip to Florida, South Carolina will also only have to pay $300,000 to UCF for their '15 trip to Columbia, the same amount they will receive for traveling to play the Knights. With prices approaching or exceeding the seven-figure mark for a game against a mid-level school, being able to secure a home-and-home with a minimal payout will be a boon to the school's bottom line.
"It's a good regional matchup and you don't have to pay that $1 million to get someone in," USC associate athletics director Charles Waddell told the paper.
"To get Coach Steve Spurrier back down there other than in Gainesville had some appeal for the people there at Central Florida. Coach was OK with doing the game and it fit with what we were trying to do."
The two schools have faced each other in football three times, with the Gamecocks winning all three. The average margin of victory has been just ten points per game, a relatively small edge considering the fact that all of the contests had the Gamecocks as the home team.
The last time they faced each other was in the opener in 2005, which also happened to be Spurrier's first game as USC's head coach.
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