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Oklahoma’s season opener against Missouri State moved up to Aug. 29

Kegan Reneau of Sooners Wire announced the Sooners will move up their season opener to August 29th.

“If the season is indeed permitted to start as scheduled, the benefit of extra time between games will help our teams manage any variety of possible circumstances that may occur,” said Oklahoma athletic director Joe Castiglione in a press release. “Our original schedule had an open date between the second and third games, so now we will have a span of five weeks to play three games. It provides us a more gradual approach to safely manage the conditions of these unprecedented times. We’re thankful to Missouri State for their cooperation during this process and to the NCAA for allowing both teams to start the season a week earlier.”

OU-Texas to remain at Cotton Bowl for now, per Joe Castiglione

Sooners Wire also reported that the Texas-OU game will remain at the Cotton Bowl for the time being. Brian Davis of the Austin American-Statesman had reported the idea of a home and home series for the next two years.

During his appearance, he made a brief but key revelation for Sooner fans this season: OU-Texas has no plans to move away from the Cotton Bowl this season.

“We’re still playing in the Cotton Bowl,” he said. “We have a contract to play in the Cotton Bowl.”

Big 12 still holding out hope for 12-game fall schedule

Brandon Marcello of 247Sports detailed that the Big 12 is working with other Power Five conferences to keep the full 12-game schedule.

The conference is still working toward a full, 12-game schedule despite other smaller conferences like in the FCS canceling or shortening their seasons. Power 5 conferences like the Big Ten and Pac-12 have already decided to play conference-only schedules, which would shorten their seasons to at least 10 games.

But the Big 12 appears to be the lone holdout hoping for a full season during the COVID-19 pandemic. Conference commissioner Bob Bowlsby communicated with leadership, including athletic directors in the 10-team conference, the desire to move forward with a 12-game schedule during a teleconference earlier this week.

“Again, the last several days, we haven’t really received an update from the commissioner how those conversations are going,” said Shane Lyons, athletics director at West Virginia. “We’ll have a call early next week and continue to talking about our model. We were feeling comfortable that we wanted to keep the 12-game schedule and see what happens from there, but obviously you have to work together in order to keep that 12-game model because we have the cross-over games in the SEC and ACC right now as well on the schedule.”