Uh, are you thinking what I’m thinking? Michigan in Stillwater on September 3?
Most programs that have a home game scheduled for September 3-5 will not want to substitute with a road game. Travel already will be hairy for teams this season, without adding an extra road game.
Brigham Young would be a great addition to the OSU schedule, but BYU couldn’t be excited about it – a road game at Utah is a 45-minute bus ride with no overnight stay, rather than a two-hour plane trip and likely overnight stay. The other teams scheduled for road games that weekend against Pac-12 teams are Division I-AA programs – William & Mary, Portland State, North Dakota State and Northern Arizona.