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Florida and Idaho reschedule football game for 2017

Florida Coach Will Muschamp stands in the rain before the start of the Gators-Idaho game Saturday. The game was suspended because of weather and unsafe conditions and has been rescheduled for 2017.
Florida Coach Will Muschamp stands in the rain before the start of the Gators-Idaho game Saturday. The game was suspended because of weather and unsafe conditions and has been rescheduled for 2017.
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By Chris Dufresne
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This just in: A college football game that was going to be no contest anyway was officially declared “no contest” on Wednesday by both schools.

Saturday’s game between Idaho and Florida in Gainesville was suspended after one play because of heavy rain and lightning.

Both schools had an open date on Oct. 25 but they have decided instead to replay the game in 2017.

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Florida will pay Idaho the full terms of the contract, $975,000, by Feb. 1.

This was basically a “paycheck” game for Idaho, a struggling former independent playing its first season in the Sun Belt Conference. Florida is from the powerful Southeastern, though the Gators are coming off a 4-8 season.

Last year, Idaho lost road games at Power Five league schools Washington State, Mississippi State and Florida State by the combined score of 176-28.

Interestingly, Idaho’s only win last year was over Temple, which on Saturday stunned Vanderbilt in Nashville.

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Chris Dufresne

Chris Dufresne was the Los Angeles Times’ national college football/basketball columnist from 1995 to 2015. He also covered skiing at the Winter Olympics and wrote extensively on most sports. He is a multiple national award winner and was named 2011 California Sportswriter of the Year by the National Sportswriters and Sportscasters Assn. A Los Angeles native, he started at The Times in 1976 as a truck loader and literally worked his way up (two floors to be exact).

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