UF AD Scott Stricklin open to scheduling UCF game, declines home-and-home option

UF athletics director Scott Stricklin said he would be open to scheduling a football game, or even series, with UCF.

The game would pit one of the nation’s storied programs and the state’s flagship university against one of fastest rising programs in college football and a university with the state’s largest enrollment.

“I’d be OK with scheduling them — in the right situation,” Stricklin said.

Stricklin said UCF athletics director Danny White has never reached out about the possibility of playing the Gators.

Stricklin said he would be willing to pick phone, too.

“We haven’t had a spot where we thought this made sense at this point,” Stricklin said.

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