It will be BYU's only Thursday game of the season. The Cougars play twice on Fridays — hosting Toledo on Sept. 30 along with the aforementioned MSU game.
In all, the Cougars will play teams from eight conferences — SEC, Big 12, Big Ten, Pac-12, American, Mountain West, Mid-American and Big Sky — and fellow independent UMass. Ten teams on the 2016 schedule played in bowl games last year, and SUU of the Big Sky was an FCS playoff qualifier.
Opponents are from nine different states and were 90-51 last year.
Two of the games are at NFL stadiums — the Sept.