FAMU football's 2026 schedule features old rivalries, homecoming date
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Florida A&M football’s 2026 schedule for new coach Quinn Fordham Gray Sr.’s first season is out.
And it’s action-packed.
The Rattlers open their season facing Gray’s former team, the Albany State Golden Rams, on Saturday, Aug. 29, on Ken Riley Field at Bragg Memorial Stadium.
Before becoming FAMU’s 20th full-time head coach last December, Gray spent three seasons at Albany State, going 24-11 and winning the 2025 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference and Black College Football National Championship for NCAA Division II.
FAMU will once again play in the Orange Blossom Classic and face the defending Celebration Bowl and Division I Black College Football National Champions on Saturday, Sept. 5. The Labor Day weekend showdown will be at Miami Gardens’ Hard Rock Stadium.
The Rattlers will remain in ‘The 305’ to face the College Football Playoffs runner-up, the Miami Hurricanes, at Hard Rock Stadium on Thursday, Sept. 10.
A rivalry Gray is familiar with will be renewed.
FAMU is hosting its old Atlanta Football Classic foe, Tennessee State, on Saturday, Sept. 19. It’ll be the first time the Historically Black Colleges and Universities meet up since 2017.
The first Southwestern Athletic Conference matchup for the Rattlers will take place at home against the Alabama A&M Bulldogs on Saturday, September 26.
FAMU’s homecoming game is scheduled for Saturday, Oct. 24, versus Arkansas-Pine Bluff.
The Florida Classic between FAMU and Bethune-Cookman will be on Saturday, Nov. 21.
Florida A&M football 2026 schedule
- Saturday, Aug. 29: vs. Albany State
- Saturday, Sept. 5: vs. South Carolina State, Orange Blossom Classic at Miami Gardens’ Hard Rock Stadium
- Thursday, Sept. 10: at Miami
- Saturday, Sept. 19: vs. Tennessee State
- Saturday, Sept. 26: vs. Alabama A&M (SWAC)
- Saturday, Oct. 3: BYE
- Saturday, Oct. 10: at Alabama State (SWAC)
- Saturday, Oct. 17: at Jackson State (SWAC)
- Saturday, Oct. 24: vs. Arkansas-Pine Bluff (SWAC/Homecoming)
- Saturday, Oct. 31: vs. Southern (SWAC)
- Saturday, Nov. 7: at Alcorn State (SWAC)
- Saturday, Nov. 14: vs. Mississippi Valley State (SWAC)
- Saturday, Nov. 21: vs. Bethune-Cookman (SWAC/Florida Classic)
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This article originally appeared on Tallahassee Democrat: Florida A&M football 2026 schedule released for Quinn Gray’s debut
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