MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. – Amid the ambiguity that the COVID-19 pandemic has dealt the sports world, Florida Memorial University's football team continues to make history.
The "rebirthed" program, which recently released its revised 2020 schedule, confirmed Friday that it filled its open week – announcing that Florida Memorial will play NCAA Division-I Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) opponent Southern University on October 31st at Southern's A.W. Mumford Stadium in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
This coming season's game will be the first game in what will be a 2-year, 2-game agreement between the schools. Both games will be played in Louisiana, with the date of the 2021 matchup to be announced at a later date.
In adding the game against the Jaguars, who compete in the Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC) and went 8-3 this past season, Florida Memorial will now play five games in the month of October and has five total away games in 2020. The Halloween day game will also be homecoming for Southern University.
Lions head football coach
Timothy Harris spoke confidently in March as the team unveiled its original schedule, saying that he had no fear of the slate of games, and his mindset hasn't changed even though the schedule has.
"This is all I've been doing my whole life – as a head coach, playing a schedule full of the toughest teams," Harris said. "It doesn't change who we are…because that's who we are. We play against the best teams. And when we [have success] against a schedule like this, it not only elevates the football program, but it elevates the university as a whole."
