The Coastal Carolina Chanticleers will play at the UCLA Bruins in 2023, FBSchedules.com has learned.
Coastal Carolina will take on UCLA at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena on Sept. 16, 2023. The Chanticleers will receive a $1.1 million guarantee for the game, according to a copy of the contract obtained via a Freedom of Information Act request.
The game was scheduled with the condition that Coastal Carolina becomes a full member of the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) by 2018, per the contract.
Coastal Carolina is currently in the Football Championship Subdivision, but is slated to move up to the FBS and officially join the Sun Belt Conference on July 1, 2017. After one season as an FBS transitional team, they would then be eligible for full FBS status in 2018.
I saw an article the other week that Coastal already has plans to expand their stadium to meet the FBS attendance standards. How it sounds...they are trying to get donations in order to expand. Really don't know if the move to the FBS level is good or bad for Coastal.