The Big 12 is the last man standing.
The SEC and ACC have announced their schedule models for the 2020 football season in recent days. The Big 10 and Pac-12 have announced a conference-only schedule, but have yet to announce the final plans for it.
Then that leaves Oklahoma, Texas and the rest of the Big 12 conference left to make their decision. Leaders have been hoping for a 12-game schedule, but that hope is dwindling away day-by-day, hour-by-hour and minute-by-minute.
Oklahoma lost its first game of the 2020 season on Wednesday when the Tennessee game was officially canceled after the SEC made its decision.
The hand of the Big 12 has been pushed, and they are planning to make a decision soon.
“You’re seeing all the various models that have been discussed behind the scenes start to evolve,” said Oklahoma athletic director Joe Castiglione to voice of Oklahoma football Toby Rowland on Friday morning. “You’re also understanding the difficulty of the decisions when you consider people are in different parts of the country and have different challenges, see it different ways, have different perspectives. So no, not really surprised by any of it. We had hoped we had all be making an announcement about the same time, even if what we announced was different from each other. Never expected it to be identical. We’re going to make our announcement here soon. We have a meeting scheduled Monday afternoon. So we’ll see where it goes from here.”
As it stands today, the Oklahoma season is still scheduled to begin on Aug. 29 against Missouri State at home. The Sooners began fall camp in preparation for the 2020 season on Friday.
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