The Big 12 Conference has yet to make a decision on a fall football season despite the other power-five conferences moving to conference-only schedules.
Oklahoma has only nine other members in the Big 12 and regularly play a nine-game, round-robin schedule before a conference championship game. In order to match what the other power-five conferences are doing with a 10-game conference schedule, they would need to another team.
The hot idea to mention was BYU. And that didn’t even reach the rumor phase of social media this time around.
.@BYUfootball to the Big 12 (this season) was a fun idea, but a conference source tells me there's "no chance."
— Matt Mosley (@mattmosley) July 31, 2020
During the last two rounds of realignment for the Big 12, BYU was a common name, but the conference never got to the point to invite or accept the Cougars bid to join.
This would have made life a lot easier for the Big 12, but BYU is located more than 1,000 hours away from Oklahoma City.
The conference is in a peculiar situation where they will need each university to play one non-conference game, find an 11th member for one season or have two games against one opponent for each Big 12 team.
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