The Miami football program’s announcement that they scheduled Wagner to complete their 2020 non-conference schedule is part of a disturbing trend in college football. The game against the Seahawks will be Miami’s 13th straight season playing against an FCS opponent.
Miami last played against a schedule entirely made up of FBS teams in 2007. The Hurricanes went 5-7 that season and missed a bowl game. Playing teams like Wagner and Bethune-Cookman does not help a team or players develop with very few exceptions.
The games that are played against FCS opponents are not challenging and generally against the worst teams at that level of college football.