West Virginia Opens Conference Play with Oklahoma State
The Big 12 Conference released its revised 2020 football schedule Wednesday morning. Competition begins the last weekend of September on Saturday the 26th with West Virginia meeting Oklahoma State in Stillwater, OK for the Mountaineers conference opener.
“The virus continues to evolve and medical professionals are learning more with each passing week,” said Commissioner Bob Bowlsby in a release by the Big 12 Conference. “Opinions vary regarding the best path forward, as we’ve seen throughout higher education and our society overall, but we are comfortable in our institutions’ ability to provide a structured training environment, rigorous testing and surveillance, hospital quality sanitation and mitigation practices that optimize the health and safety of our student-athletes. We believe all of this combines to create an ideal learning and training situation during this time of COVID-19. Ultimately, our student-athletes have indicated their desire to compete in the sports they love this season and it is up to all of us to deliver a safe, medically sound, and structured academic and athletic environment for accomplishing that outcome.”
West Virginia 2020 Football Schedule
9/26 @ Oklahoma State
10/3 Baylor
10/10 Bye
10/17 Kansas
10/24 Texas Tech
10/31 Kansas State
11/7 @ Texas
11/14 TCU
11/21 Bye
11/28 Oklahoma
12/5 @ Iowa State
“When the Big 12 announced a revised 10-game season, we knew that the schedule would change and there would be some flexibility built in to handle any COVID-19 disruptions,” West Virginia Athletic Director Shane Lyons said. “This new schedule provides us with the nine league games, the one nonconference date and the ability to plan accordingly.”
West Virginia is scheduled to host Eastern Kentucky on September 12th, but no official announcement on whether the game will resume has been issued.
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