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The Ole Miss Rebels and BYU Cougars had planned a home-and-home series. Lane Kiffin and company, however, won’t be tangling with the Cougars in the regular season any time soon.
The series’ cancelation was revealed in a recent BYU announcement of series added to the Cougars’ future schedules. In 2021, the programs had announced plans to play at LaVell Edwards Stadium in Provo in 2028 and at Vaught-Hemingway Stadium in Oxford in 2029.
The change comes amid speculation that the SEC is moving from 8 to 9 conference games for 2026 and beyond. Ahead of the 2024 season, the SEC’s first as a 16-team conference, the league announced a schedule. The league later announced that teams would play the same opponents in 2025, switching home and away games.
There has yet to be an official announcement from the conference, but numerous programs have canceled future nonconference games. In June, Ole Miss athletic director Keith Carter announced that Ole Miss and USC had canceled their planned home-and-home for 2025 and ’26.
With BYU off the schedule, Ole Miss now has no more than 3 nonconference opponents scheduled for 2026 and beyond, which includes home-and-home series with Oregon State (2027, 2030), Virginia Tech (2032, 2037) and Purdue (2033, 2034).
The Rebels are actually looking to add a nonconference opponent to a future schedule after Wake Forest backed out of the 2025 meeting. Ole Miss has Georgia State (Aug. 30), The Citadel (Sept. 6) and Tulane (Sept. 20) on its 2025 nonconference schedule.
[H/T FBSchedules.com]
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