It remains unclear what alterations — if any — the Big 12 Conference will make to facilitate the 2020 football season. But for now, one of Oklahoma State’s nonconference opponents is plodding ahead as planned.
The Missouri Valley Conference announced Monday that it will delay fall competition for MVC sports until Sept. 18, but its decision “does not include football-playing institutions.” Its decision affirms that, barring a Big 12 decision to wipe away nonconference games, as the Big Ten and Pac-12 have done, OSU’s game against Western Illinois, an MVC football member, will still be held as scheduled on Saturday, Sept.