FAYETTEVILLE — Arkansas is looking into playing a game at a neutral site in 2020, but the Razorbacks' athletics director won't go so far as to say the opponent will be Baylor.
Asked about the potential of playing the Bears in five years, Long said Wednesday that Arkansas is looking into multiple neutral-site games to fill a scheduling void that season. Baylor football coach Art Briles said earlier this year the Bears were talking with the Razorbacks about a game that season at NRG Stadium in Houston.
"We've had conversations with a dozen or more teams about 2020," Long said. "We're looking at that for a neutral-site game, but that's only one of the spots we're looking at.
"Houston is attractive, Orlando is attractive, Kansas City is attractive; those are all sites we've looked at and are continuing to look at."
Baylor athletics director Ian McCaw said in August the Bears are "working hard" to schedule a Southeastern Conference opponent for the 2020 season in Houston, but did not mention the Razorbacks specifically.
Neutral-site games on the opening weekend of the college football season are lucrative with payouts of between $3 million and $4 million per program, according to reports.
Arkansas and Baylor have not played since both were members of the Southwest Conference in 1991.
The Razorbacks have marquee nonconference games scheduled for five of the next six seasons, but not for 2020.
Arkansas is scheduled to play TCU and Michigan in home-and-home series the next four years, and a home game against Texas in 2021.
The game against the Longhorns is a makeup for a game originally scheduled to be played in 2009, but postponed because of the Razorbacks' long-term contract to play Texas A&M in Arlington, Texas.
"A neutral-site game fits for us in 2020," Long said. "We don't have to do it there, but if we were going to do that type of game, 2020 fits our schedule and what we're doing."