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Red All Over: Kyle Whittingham likes the Florida series, says he’s ‘fine’ with skipping BYU twice.

Utah football coach Kyle Whittingham is looking forward to a home-and-home series vs. Florida. “The Swamp is one of the best venues in the country,” he said, although the 2022 game with the Gators “in coaching terms, [is] so far away you can’t even fathom it.”

The school has announced only that a Southeastern Conference opponent will replace BYU on the schedules in ’22 and ’23. Whittingham, whose new contract runs through the ’23 season, said he’s “fine” with interrupting the rivalry for two years.

Whittingham likened the Florida series to Utah's 2014-15 games vs.