For the sake of COVID, each Big 12 team had two bye weeks built into their schedules this season, but the postponement of the Cowboys’ game against Baylor this week came at an awkward time.
Baylor and Oklahoma State were each coming off a bye week when a large amount of positive COVID tests on Baylor’s side caused the game to get pushed back. Without that game this weekend, only two Big 12 teams are playing: West Virginia and Kansas.
So, it seems logical that OSU would want to get a game in while its players were healthy, but even with hardly any Big 12 teams playing this weekend, but Pokes couldn’t find a replacement for Saturday.