Ole Miss football home-and-home series against BYU canceled
The future Ole Miss football schedule keeps changing.
Ole Miss' 2028 and 2029 games against BYU have been canceled, per an announcement on the BYU athletics website posted Wednesday. Ole Miss was slated to travel to Provo, Utah for the first game in 2028 and BYU was booked to return the favor and play at Vaught-Hemingway Stadium in 2029. Both games were scheduled for September dates.
The home-and-home series was initially announced in 2021, when BYU was an FBS independent. Now the Cougars play in the Big 12.
The announcement came when BYU unveiled four future football series.
The BYU news comes after Wake Forest pulled out of its 2025 road trip to Oxford just before the Rebels' 40-6 road victory in Winston-Salem this season.
The BYU situation is a notably different. Ole Miss will need to reschedule, but it's an easier task that finding an opponent to replace Wake Forest next season. Ole Miss coach Lane Kiffin was frustrated with Wake Forest's handling of the arrangement.
“Now we’ve got to go find somebody and most people are all scheduled up," Kiffin said after Wake Forest canceled. "And even when you find somebody, you’ve got to go pay them. It’s kind of an unwritten rule not to do that, actually.”
The 2028 game would have been the second meeting between Ole Miss and BYU, and the first in Provo. The Cougars beat the Rebels 14-13 in Ole Miss' season-opening game in 2011.
Sam Hutchens covers Ole Miss for the Clarion Ledger. Email him at Shutchens@gannett.com or reach him on X at @Sam_Hutchens_
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