CSU’s football program has added another guarantee game against a Football Championship Subdivision program to fill out a future schedule.

The Rams will play a 2023 home game against Dixie State University.

Colorado State University will host Dixie State, a school that is moving up to the NCAA’s Division I FCS level in 2020, on Sept. 30, 2023, according to FBSchedules.com.

CSU will pay Dixie State a guarantee of $400,000 for the game, FBSchedules.com reported, matching the guarantee school officials said they gave Sacramento State for a 2022 game at Canvas Stadium.

The additions of the games against Sacramento State, announced last week by the Big Sky Conference school, and Dixie State give the Rams full 12-game, regular-season schedules through the 2023 season.

Dixie State, located in St. George, Utah, is currently in the NCAA Division II Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference but is joining the Western Athletic Conference on July 1, 2020, in all sports other than football. Its football program will play an independent schedule at the FCS level, school officials said.

NCAA rules allow Football Bowl Subdivision schools to count one win over an FCS school toward bowl eligibility each season. CSU has had an FCS school on its schedule for 12 of the past 13 seasons and every year since 2011.

CSU’s other nonconference games in 2023 will be at home against Washington State on Sept. 2, at the University of Colorado on Sept. 16 and at Middle Tennessee on Sept. 23. That leaves an early opening Sept. 9 for either a Mountain West game or a bye.

The Rams’ Mountain West schedule that season, based on the current rotation, will include home games against Fresno State, New Mexico, Utah State and Wyoming and road games at Air Force, Boise State, San Diego State and UNLV. The MW generally announces conference schedules each winter for the following fall.

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CSU's nonconference football schedules

2019

Aug. 30 — vs. Colorado (in Denver)

Sept. 7 — Western Illinois

Sept. 14 — at Arkansas

Sept. 21 — Toledo

2020

Sept. 5 — Colorado

Sept. 12 — at Oregon State

Sept. 19 — Northern Colorado

Sept. 26 — at Vanderbilt

2021

Sept. 4 — South Dakota State

Sept. 11 — Vanderbilt

Sept. 18 — at Toledo

Sept. 25 — at Iowa

2022

Sept. 3 — at Michigan

Sept. 10 — Middle Tennessee

Sept. 17 — at Washington State

Sept. 24 — Sacramento State

2023

Sept. 2 — Washington State

Sept. 16 — at Colorado

Sept. 23 — at Middle Tennessee

Sept. 30 — Dixie State