FSU Football scheduling Louisiana Lafayette in 2022 a small, postive step

FSU football just got through playing a Sun Belt Conference team from the state of Louisiana – and already has another game scheduled for the 2022 season.

On Saturday, the FSU football team took the field against a team from the University of Louisiana Warhawks – the third time this decade that the Seminoles have hosted the men from the Bayou State and the third time they have beaten them over that span after coming out on top to even their record for 2019 at 1-1 on the year.

Already though, the Seminoles have scheduled another game against a team from the state of Louisiana that plays in the same conference as the Warhawks – but this time, it’s a team they have   never played once before.

This week, the Ragin’ Cajuns from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette announced a game in the 2022 season where they will travel to Tallahassee to take on the FSU football team for the first ever meeting between the programs.

The news comes just days after it was announced that the Seminoles closed out their 2020 non-conference schedule with a game against a different type of foe – a Samford team from the FCS level that the Noles had quite a battle with in the second game of the 2018 season and needed a fourth quarter rally just to win the game.

While I have always been – and in almost all case will continue to be – a proponent of teams from power conferences like the ACC and FSU football playing teams from the FCS level, it is good to see the Seminoles going out and scheduling a game against a mid-major opponent that has been to a bowl game in six of the last eight seasons.

It’s a step in the right direction because this is something the Seminoles should be doing – whether it’s in-state teams like FIU or FAU or even UCF or out of state foes like the Ragin’ Cajuns or anyone else who wants a game, the first option should be a FBS foe and everyone else falls in line.