SEATTLE - Washington has canceled a future home-and-home football series with BYU and added a Football Championship Subdivision team to its schedule for the first time in school history.
Washington will open the 2011 season against Eastern Washington, the school announced Tuesday.
That decision will leave just three schools in the country -- USC, UCLA and Notre Dame -- who have never played a FCS team since the current division setup was created in 1978.
Washington athletic director Scott Woodward says the cost guarantees for scheduling a Football Bowl Subdivision team from a non-BCS conference have gotten too expensive and that dropping down to add a FCS team is the best move for now.
