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Red and White will rake in green from Florida trip
Miami University’s football team is just two days into summer practice, but the RedHawks already are assured of setting at least one record — a good record — for the 2010 season.
Miami’s season opener at the third-ranked University of Florida will give the RedHawks not only a game on national TV (ESPN) but also a financial field day. The school will receive $700,000 for the contract, according to Miami Deputy Athletic Director Jason Lener, who said that amount “is higher than any (one-game amount) in previous years.”
The oddsmakers are certain to make Miami University’s football team a multiple-touchdown underdog for the opener, but the RedHawks hope to be more than an expensive punching bag when they face Florida for the first and only time since 1973, when they beat the Gators 16-7 in the Tangerine Bowl.
The last time Miami visited the Sunshine State, by the way, was in 2003, when the RedHawks overpowered the University of Central Florida 56-21 in a Mid-American Conference game. It was Miami’s 11th straight victory during coach Terry Hoeppner’s greatest season in Oxford, capped by its 49-28 victory over Louisville in the GMAC Bowl.
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