Arkansas
Report: FSU adds Central Arkansas — Mike Norvell’s alma mater — to 2026 football schedule
Florida State has added an opponent to its 2026 football schedule — the alma mater of head coach Mike Norvell.
FSU will face off against Central Arkansas on Saturday, Sept. 26, 2026, a game that will net a $450,000 payday for the Bears.
The matchup was revealed by FBSchedules.com, who learned of it via an open records request.
Norvell played wide receiver at the University of Central Arkansas from 2001 to 2005 and is the school’s all-time receptions leader having snagged 213 pass receptions for 2,611 yards and 15 touchdowns (also rushing for one and throwing for two).
Here’s him reviewing some of his tape, via the Xs and Noles podcast (begins around 50:40:
Florida State has several non-conference games already scheduled — September 19th vs. the Alabama Crimson Tide, part of a home-and-home series that kicks off this season in Tallahassee, a yet-to-be-scheduled matchup with the Notre Dame Fighting Irish and the annual rivalry matchup against the Florida Gators, slated for November 28th in Tallahassee.
2026 Florida State Seminoles football schedule
- Sep. 19: at Alabama Crimson Tide (Tuscaloosa, AL)
- Sep. 26: Central Arkansas Bears (Tallahassee, FL)
- Nov. 28: Florida Gators (Tallahassee, FL)
- Date TBA: at Boston College Eagles (Chestnut Hill, MA)
- Date TBA: Clemson Tigers (Tallahassee, FL)
- Date TBA: NC State Wolfpack (Tallahassee, FL)
- Date TBA: SMU Mustangs (Tallahassee, FL)
- Date TBA: Virginia Cavaliers (Tallahassee, FL)
- Date TBA: at Louisville Cardinals (Louisville, KY)
- Date TBA: at Miami Hurricanes (Miami Gardens, FL)
- Date TBA: at Pitt Panthers (Pittsburgh, PA)
- Date TBA: Notre Dame Fighting Irish (Tallahassee, FL)
Rex Nelson
Rex Nelson has been senior editor and columnist at the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette since 2017, and he has a biweekly podcast called “Southern Fried.”
After graduating from Ouachita Baptist University in 1981, he was a sportswriter for the Arkansas Democrat for a year before becoming editor of Arkadelphia’s Daily Siftings Herald. He was the youngest editor of a daily in Arkansas at age 23. Rex was then news and sports director at KVRC-KDEL from 1983-1985.
He returned to the Democrat as assistant sports editor in 1985. From 1986-1989, he was its Washington correspondent. He left to be Jackson T. Stephens’ consultant.
Rex became the Democrat-Gazette’s first political editor in 1992, but left in 1996 to join then-Gov. Mike Huckabee’s office. He also served from 2005-09 in the administration of President George W. Bush.
From 2009-2018, he worked stints at the Communications Group, Arkansas’ Independent Colleges and Universities, and Simmons First National Corp.
Dylan Sherman
Dylan Sherman is a business reporter for the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette. He is based in Northwest Arkansas and focuses on Tyson Foods Inc. and the transportation industry. A graduate of the University of Missouri, he has been with the newspaper since 2023.
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