Another ripple from college football's conference shakeup has hit the Gamecocks' schedule. The University of South Carolina and the University of Miami jointly announced Monday that they have mutually agreed to cancel their planned home-and-away football series set for the 2026 and 2027 seasons.
The two programs were originally slated to meet in Columbia in 2026 and then in Miami in 2027, marking what would have been their first regular-season matchup since 1987. But with both the SEC and ACC officially moving to nine-game conference schedules beginning next season, flexibility in non-conference scheduling has tightened for nearly every Power Four program, and South Carolina and Miami were no exception.