PROVO, Utah — Baylor Football Announces 2021 football plan highlighting seven matchups against Power 5 meeting rivals and groups from nine unique states.
The Cougars will confront five groups from the Pac-12 Conference and one each from the Atlantic Coast Conference and Big 12 Conference. In all, the 12-game timetable incorporates groups from seven gatherings—ACC, Big 12, Pac-12, American, Mountain West, Sun Belt and Big Sky—addressing the conditions of Arizona, California, Idaho, Florida, Georgia, Texas, Utah, Virginia and Washington.
Another across the nation public timetable, the 2021 record incorporates six home games, five street challenges and one impartial site matchup.
BYU opens the season in the new home of the NFL's Las Vegas Raiders, taking on Arizona at Allegiant Stadium on Saturday, Sept. 4. The Cougars last confronted the Wildcats in an impartial site NFL arena in 2016 in Kalani Sitake's first game in charge of the Cougar program. BYU prevailed 18-16 of every a firmly challenged matchup at University of Phoenix Stadium in Glendale, Arizona before a 30,000-in number unexpected of Cougar Nation. BYU procured a 28-23 street triumph in Tucson in the last gathering in the 2018 season opener to make its record 11-12-1 in the arrangement tracing all the way back to 1936.
The Cougars will confront five of the six groups in the Pac-12 South in 2021. After Arizona, BYU has in-state rival Utah on Saturday, Sept. 11 in the first of three-straight games in LaVell Edwards Stadium. The Cougars and Utes will meet for the 95th time when they restore their contention after not playing in 2020 because of the Pac-12's cancelation of nonconference games. In an arrangement that traces all the way back to 1922, Utah possesses a 59-31-4 record after its 30-12 success in the 2019 season opener in Provo.
BYU invites Arizona State to Provo on Saturday, Sept. 18 in its third-successive matchup against the Pac-12. The previous WAC meeting enemies restore an arrangement that started in 1935 and was last played in 1998 when the Cougars crushed the Sun Devils, 26-6, in Provo. Prior to the 2020 game abrogations, the two groups were planned to play in Tempe, Arizona, a year ago. ASU holds a 20-7 benefit in the unequaled arrangement.
The third home game in September will see the South Florida Bulls of the AAC showing up in LaVell Edwards Stadium on Saturday, Sept. 25. The principal meeting between the two groups was a 27-23 Bulls triumph at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa in 2019.
The Cougars face consecutive Mountain West adversaries to open the long stretch of October, playing in-state rival Utah State in Maverik Stadium on Friday, Oct. 1 preceding getting back to Provo to have lasting MW power and territorial opponent Boise State on Saturday, Oct. 9. BYU keeps a 49-37-3 record against Utah State in the wake of vanquishing the Aggies, 42-14, in the last excursion in Logan in 2019. The Cougars, who trail BSU 7-4 in the general arrangement, are falling off a ruling 51-17 victory a year ago to acquire their first triumph on the Boise's blue turf against the Broncos.
Getting back to the street for consecutive Power 5 matchups, BYU goes to Big 12 region to confront the Baylor Bears on Saturday, Oct. 16 in the primary challenge between the two schools since BYU's 1984 public title season. An even arrangement at one win each, the Cougars crushed the Bears 47-13 in their home opener in 1984 in the wake of enduring the solitary flaw of BYU's 12-1, No. 7-positioned 1983 mission by a 40-36 count in Waco. The 2021 challenge adds the interest of the Cougars confronting previous hostile organizer Jeff Grimes and hostile line mentor Eric Mateos, who left BYU in January to take similar situations with the Bears.
From Waco to Washington, BYU next challenges Washington State in Pullman on Saturday, Oct. 23 to restore an arrangement against the Pac-12 Cougars that was last played in 2012. BYU crushed its mascot namesakes 30-6 in the 2012 season opener to guarantee a 3-1 record in the arrangement that traces all the way back to the 1981 Holiday Bowl. The current year's matchup will be the primary game in the arrangement played in Pullman.
The Cougars finish October back in Provo against Virginia instructed by previous BYU lead trainer Bronco Mendenhall and his staff that incorporates numerous previous Cougar mentors and players. The challenge against the Cavaliers of the ACC happens on Saturday, Oct. 30. The two projects last met in a two-game arrangement in 2013 and 2014 when Mendenhall was instructing from the BYU sideline. The Cougars won the last gathering, 41-33, in Provo after the Cavaliers acquired a downpour absorbed 19-16 rebound triumph Charlottesville in 2013. Virginia holds a 3-2 edge in the general arrangement tracing all the way back to 1987.
Senior day in LaVell Edwards Stadium happens on Saturday, Nov. 6 when Idaho State of the Big Sky comes to town. BYU drives the unequaled arrangement with the Bengals, 6-0. The Cougars finish the ordinary season in the street against two groups falling off solid seasons in 2020. BYU goes to Georgia Southern to confront a difficult hostile assault that delivered a 8-5 record in a solid Sun Belt last season. The principal meeting between the two groups happens on Saturday, Nov. 20 at Paulson Stadium in Statesboro, Georgia.
BYU crosses the nation to complete the season in Los Angeles against the USC Trojans on Saturday, Nov. 27. The 2020 Pac-12 South heroes completed No. 21 in both last surveys last season with a 5-1 record. The 2021 matchup with USC is the fourth in the arrangement that began in 2003. BYU is falling off a 30-27 additional time triumph in the last gathering when the Cougars brought down the No. 24 Trojans on Sept. 14. 2019, in LaVell Edwards Stadium.
TV plans and kick times are yet to be resolved. Dates are liable to change to oblige TV plans.
2021 BYU Football Schedule
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