Arkansas schedules future football series with BYU

BYU coach Kalani Sitake celebrates with defensive back Austin Lee (11) after Lee intercepted a Hawaii pass during an NCAA college football game Saturday, Oct. 13, in Provo, Utah. (Isaac Hale/Daily Herald via AP)
BYU coach Kalani Sitake celebrates with defensive back Austin Lee (11) after Lee intercepted a Hawaii pass during an NCAA college football game Saturday, Oct. 13, in Provo, Utah. (Isaac Hale/Daily Herald via AP)

— Arkansas and BYU will play a home-and-home football series beginning in 2022, according to a release.

The Razorbacks and Cougars will play Oct. 15, 2022, at LaVell Edwards Stadium in Provo, Utah, and Sept. 23, 2023, at Donald W. Reynolds Razorback Stadium in Fayetteville. The 2022 game will be the first ever between the programs.

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BYU competes as an independent in football, but is one of a handful of non-Power Five programs that can satisfy the Southeastern Conference mandate that its teams play a Power Five non-conference opponent each season.

The Cougars have played Mississippi State and LSU since the SEC implemented the mandate, and BYU has future games scheduled against Tennessee in 2019 and 2023, and Missouri in 2020.

In addition to BYU, Arkansas has scheduled home-and-home series with Notre Dame, an independent, in 2020 and 2025, and Oklahoma State of the Big 12 in 2024 and 2027.

The Razorbacks are scheduled to host Colorado State of the Mountain West Conference in 2019 and Texas of the Big 12 in 2021 to complete series that have already started.

The Colorado State games this season and next season satisfy the SEC mandate because the Razorbacks received a waiver to play the Rams following Michigan's cancellation of a two-year series that was set to begin this year.

CORRECTION: The initial release from the University of Arkansas stated the 2023 game would be played on Oct. 23. That has been changed to reflect the correct date, Sept. 23, 2023.

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