Redbirds vs. Sooners

Total Red

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I've always wanted to see a SEC football game but it's hard to do without missing any Redbird games. But now with Oklahoma joining the SEC you don't have to choose. Illinois State is opening the 2025 season in Norman, Oklahoma. How cool is that! It's not exactly clear when Okla and Texas will officially join but I think it will happen before the 2025 season. No one benefits from a long-term lame duck status. This is was great get for Redbird FB scheduling as a Big 12 member and even better one as a SEC game. MUST SEE!
 

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Don't forget... Redbirds @ Mizzou in '27

But I think the Wisconsin game is the one I'm looking forward to most. '26?
 

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I wonder if the Okie game will be played. I wouldn't be surprised if they simply pay us so they can have more flexibility as they change their conference schedule.

Who knows, maybe the remaining Big 12 teams will need to fill two suddenly empty weeks on their schedules. We might get a double payoff.

Maybe the conference can offer an MVFC Big 12 football deal, with joint scheduling so that Big 12 Football teams could play a MVFC team during one of their OU/Texas holes scattered throughout the season. I write this with a sarcastic smile as it seems unrealistic, but this conference madness is already unlikely.
 

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I wonder if the Okie game will be played. I wouldn't be surprised if they simply pay us so they can have more flexibility as they change their conference schedule.

Who knows, maybe the remaining Big 12 teams will need to fill two suddenly empty weeks on their schedules. We might get a double payoff.

Maybe the conference can offer an MVFC Big 12 football deal, with joint scheduling so that Big 12 Football teams could play a MVFC team during one of their OU/Texas holes scattered throughout the season. I write this with a sarcastic smile as it seems unrealistic, but this conference madness is already unlikely.
Okla could do a buyout but I think it is unlikely. The SEC is already so large that you don't play all the teams in the opposite division. They want to play non-conference games and SEC non-con games with FCS programs are very common. This season Alabama will play Mercer. Oklahoma schedules FCS games too. This year they face Western Carolina.
 

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Wisconsin game is next year in 2022
And it's the Badgers' fourth game next season, making it more difficult to pull off one of those flukes where the FBS team wasn't prepared. It could be more of a beatdown than playing Okie in a season opener.
 
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