FAMU football schedule has five homes for second consecutive year

The Orange & Green gridiron squad will play in Bragg Memorial Stadium five times during the 2014 season. This is the second consecutive year that FAMU has inked contracts for five home games.

FAMU will flip the quarter for its first home game on September 20 against Coastal Carolina. The remaining home opponents will be Morgan State, Savannah State, Norfolk State (homecoming game), and South Carolina State.

The heavy slate of home contests will give the Rattlers a shot at redemption after chalking up a painful and disappointing 0-5 record at Bragg Memorial last year, which was Earl Holmes’ first full season as head coach.

Holmes said he and his players will be ready.

“We took our lumps and growing pains last year,” Holmes said. “That has fueled us in preparing to embark on the journey we set out to accomplish, which is to restore FAMU football to its rightful place, atop the [Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference].”

The Rattlers will open 2014 on-the-road at Jackson State in Jackson, Miss. They will finish their regular season once against at the Florida Blue Florida Classic in Orlando against Bethune-Cookman, last year’s MEAC co-champion.