Arkansas, Oklahoma State set series

FAYETTEVILLE -- The University of Arkansas added a home-and-home football series on Thursday, announcing it had reached a deal to play Oklahoma State twice in the next nine years.

The Razorbacks will open the series in Stillwater, Okla., on Sept. 7, 2024, and the Cowboys will return the game on Sept. 11, 2027.

Oklahoma State is the closest Power 5 campus to the Razorbacks (180 miles), followed by the University of Oklahoma (229 miles) and the University of Missouri (295 miles).

The teams last met in 1980 in Little Rock with Arkansas winning 33-20 to extend its lead in the series to 30-15-1. The Razorbacks have won five in a row over the Cowboys in a series that began in 1912 with a 13-7 victory by the Cowboys.

The teams were once rivals in the old Southwest Conference starting in 1915. Oklahoma State left the league in 1925 for what would become the Missouri Valley Conference. The teams played every year between 1962 and 1980, and Arkansas has won 22 of the last 27 meetings.

Oklahoma State is just the fourth Big 12 team the Razorbacks have scheduled since the Big 12 was founded in 1996, joining Texas, Texas A&M and Texas Tech. The Razorbacks also split a pair of games against TCU, but the Horned Frogs were in Conference USA when that series was scheduled in 2001.

Arkansas is required by SEC rules to play a Power 5 nonconference game each year. The Razorbacks received a waiver this year and next to play Colorado State after Michigan backed out of a home-and-home deal those two seasons.

Previously announced marquee nonconference games for the Hogs are scheduled at Notre Dame on Sept. 12, 2020, at home against Texas on Sept. 11, 2021, and at home against Notre Dame on Oct. 4, 2025.

Sports on 10/12/2018

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