The Florida State Seminoles will open the 2012 season against the Murray State Racers, the Palm Beach Post has reported. The game will be played on September 1, 2012.

This will be FSU’s first meeting with Murray State, a member of the Ohio Valley Conference in the Football Championship Subdivision.

The Auburn Tigers have completed their 2011 non-conference football schedule, DecaturDaily.com has reported. The Tigers will open the 2011 season at home on September 3 against the Utah State Aggies.

The 2011 matchup between Auburn and Utah State will be the first ever meeting of the two schools.

Kansas State has added Kent State and Eastern Kentucky to complete their 2011 non-conference football schedule. Eastern Kentucky will receive $375,000 while Kent State will receive a larger amount for the one game series (source).

With the departure of Nebraska to the Big Ten in 2011, the Big 12 will only have three non-conference games with a nine game conference schedule.

The Florida State Seminoles have added the ULM Warhawks to their 2011 football schedule, the Orlando Sentinel has reported. An exact date for the game was not specified.

FSU and ULM (a/k/a Louisiana-Monroe) have never met in football. The Warhawks are a member of the Sun Belt Conference.

The LSU Tigers have added a game against the South Alabama Jaguars to their 2012 football schedule, the school has announced. The Tigers will host the Jaguars in Baton Rouge on October 15, 2016.

This will be the first ever meeting between the two schools. South Alabama, an FCS school, expects to complete a full transition to the Football Bowl Championship Subdivision by the 2013 season. They will compete in the Sun Belt Conference.

The BYU Cougars have agreed to a 6-year football contract with the Notre Dame Fighting Irish, ESPN has announced. Dates of the games and other details have not been finalized yet.

BYU and Notre Dame will meet six times through the 2020 season. The Irish lead the overall series against the Cougars 4-2. The two schools last played in 2005, a 49-23 win for Notre Dame in South Bend.

A 2016 and 2019 home-and-home football series between the Oklahoma State Cowboys and the Purdue Boilermakers has been canceled, Purdue has announced.

The two schools were scheduled to play at West Lafayette, Indiana on September 17, 2016 and at Stillwater, Oklahoma on September 14, 2019.

The BYU Cougars have scheduled future football games against five WAC schools for 2011 and 2012. The games are part of a scheduling agreement with BYU and the WAC.

On Tuesday, the Cougars announced that they will leave the Mountain West and go independent in football in 2011. As a result, the WAC has agreed to supply BYU wil five football opponents in 2011 and four in 2012. Listed below are details of each matchup.

The Big Ten has announced their 2011 and 2012 conference football schedules. Changes were made to the existing schedules after Nebraska was added from the Big 12.

A Big Ten Football Championship Game will be held starting in 2011 since the conference now has 12 teams split into two divisions.

The Central Michigan Chippewas and the NC State Wolfpack have scheduled a 3-game football series, CM-Life.com has reported. The series includes two games in Raleigh, NC and one game in Mount Pleasant, MI.

The series will begin when Central Michigan travels to face NC State on October 8, 2011 at Carter-Finley Stadium in Raleigh. Central Michigan was scheduled to play at Michigan State on Oct. 8, but the game may have been moved due to expansion of the Big Ten.

The Pittsburgh Panthers will host the Delaware Blue Hens in 2014 and 2019, DelawareOnline.com has reported. The 2014 game will be the first meeting between the two schools.

The Panthers will host the Blue Hens at Heinz Field on August 30, 2014 in both teams’ season opener. The two schools will also open the 2019 season at Heinz Field on August 31, 2019.

The Utah State Aggies announced today that they have signed a four-game home-and-home series with the Wyoming Cowboys.

The series will begin on October 8, 2011 when Utah State hosts Wyoming at Romney Stadium in Logan. Utah State will then visit War Memorial Stadium in Laramie on September 13, 2014.

The Georgia Bulldogs have added the Buffalo Bulls to their 2012 football schedule, the University of Buffalo announced today. Georgia will host Buffalo at Sanford Stadium in Athens on September 1, 2012.

This will be the first ever meeting between Georgia of the SEC and Buffalo of the MAC. Earlier this month, the Bulls announced that they will play at Tennessee in 2011.

Two of the top powers in college football, the USC Trojans and Texas Longhorns, have announced a home-and-home series which will start in 2017.

The Texas Longhorns will meet the USC Trojans on September 16, 2017 at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum to begin the series. The return game will take place on September 15, 2018 at Darrell K. Royal – Texas Memorial Stadium in Austin to complete the series.

The Wisconsin Badgers have added the UTEP Miners to their 2012 football schedule. An exact date for the game has not been announced (Source).

This will be the first ever meeting between the two schools. UTEP, currently a member of Conference USA, finished the 2009 season 4-8 overall and 3-5 in the conference.

The UTEP Miners at Texas Longhorns football game originally scheduled for September 8, 2012 in Austin has been moved to 2016, Statesman.com has reported. An exact date has not been announced.

The game was moved due to the Big 12 Conference’s recent realignment from 12 to 10 teams. The league will move to a nine-game football schedule in 2012. Therefore, each team will only play three non-conference games per season.

The Ohio State Buckeyes have added the Colorado Buffaloes to their 2011 football schedule. The game has been officially announced by Ohio State University.

The Buckeyes will host the Buffaloes at Ohio Stadium in Columbus on September 24, 2011. Ohio State will pay Colorado $1.4 million for the game. This is a single game matchup and will not be a home-and-home series.

The UAB Blazers have updated their future football schedules with an extension of a home-and-home series against Troy and a road game at South Carolina.

UAB and Troy are currently in a four-game series, but have added an additional home-and-home series for 2013 and 2014.

The Virginia Cavaliers have posted their future non-conference football schedule through the 2015 season. They still need one game in 2012 and two in 2015.

Virginia’s future schedules include games against Ball State, Idaho, Indiana, Kent State, Penn State (home-and-home series), Richmond, Southern Miss, TCU, UCLA (home-and-home series), UTSA, VMI and William & Mary.

The Maryland Terrapins and the Texas Longhorns will play at Austin in 2017 and at FedEx Field in Landover, MD in 2018, Statesman.com has reported.

This series was reported back in July, but it was rumored to be played in 2014 and 2015.

The BYU Cougars and Texas Longhorns have agreed to a home-and-home football series, the schools have announced. The series will kickoff in 2013 with a game in Provo, followed by the finale in 2014 with a game in Austin.

With the addition of this series the Cougars and Longhorns are scheduled to meet three times over the next five years, with the first meeting coming on September 10, 2011 at Texas.

The BYU Cougars may leave the Mountain West conference to become an independent in football, various sources have reported. BYU would join the WAC in all other sports.

Currently, the only independent schools in football are Army, Navy and Notre Dame.

The Buffalo Bulls will travel to face the Tennessee Volunteers in Knoxville in 2011, Buffalo has announced. The Bulls will travel to face the Volunteers at Neyland Stadium in Knoxville on October 1, 2011.

Earlier today, news broke that Tennessee was backing out of a 2011-12 home-and-home football series with North Carolina. As a result, the Volunteers have scheduled Buffalo for 2011. This will be the first ever meeting between the two schools.

A 2011-12 home-and-home football series between the North Carolina Tar Heels and the Tennessee Volunteers is likely to be canceled, ESPN.com has reported.

The two schools were to play at Chapel Hill on September 24, 2011 and at Knoxville on September 8, 2012.

The Colorado Buffaloes and Ohio State Buckeyes are working on a deal to play in 2011, DailyCamera.com has reported. The game would be played at Ohio Stadium, also known as “The Horseshoe.”

This would be a single game rather than a home-and-home series, meaning Ohio State would not play in Boulder. The payout that Colorado would receive is reported to be around $2 million.

The Michigan State Spartans and the UCF Golden Knights have each added the Jacksonville State Gamecocks to their 2014 football schedule, JSU has announced.

Michigan State will host Jacksonville State at Spartan Stadium in East Lansing on August 30, 2014. It will be the season opener and the first meeting ever between the two schools.

The Miami (FL) Hurricanes have scheduled a game in 2015 with the Cincinnati Bearcats. They have also confirmed the dates for their 2014-15 home-and-home series with the Memphis Tigers (Source – ht Andrew).

Miami will host Cincinnati at Sun Life Stadium on October 3, 2015. It will be the 12th meeting between the two schools. The Hurricanes lead the series 10-1 and have won 10 straight since losing the first meeting in 1947.

The Western Kentucky Hilltoppers have posted their future non-conference football games through the 2016 season.

WKU’s future games include games against Alabama, Army (4-game home-and-home series), Hawaii, Indiana, Iowa State, Kentucky (1 game at Kentucky, 2 at Nashville), Navy (home-and-home series), LSU and Tennessee.

The Florida Gators will open the 2012 football season against the Bowling Green Falcons.

The game will be played at Ben Hill Griffin Stadium in Gainesville on September 1. It will be the first ever meeting between the Gators of the SEC and the Falcons of the MAC.

The Rutgers Scarlet Knights and the Temple Owls have scheduled a four-game home-and-home football series for 2015-18, the schools announced today.

Rutgers will host Temple at Rutgers Stadium in Piscataway, NJ in 2015 and 2017. Rutgers will travel to face Temple at Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia in 2016 and 2018. Exact dates of the games were not announced.