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CBS Sports is a registered trademark of CBS Broadcasting Inc. Commissioner.com is a registered trademark of CBS Interactive Inc. The Big 12′s university presidents signed off on a 10-game schedule, adjusted to deal with potential disruptions from COVID-19 that lets schools play one nonconference opponent at home. Big 12 football schedule 2020: Teams to play 10 games, including one nonconference opponent The Big 12 is the latest Power Five conference to … section: | slug: big-12-football-schedule-2020-teams-to-play-10-games-including-one-nonconference-opponent | sport: collegefootball | route: article_single.us | As conferences take steps toward a football season that seems to be in precarious shape because of the pandemic, the NCAA is expected to weigh in Tuesday on fall sports other than major-college football.

The Big 12 will permit its teams to play one nonconference football game this year to go along with their nine league contests as plans for the pandemic-altered season continue to fall into place.

Dec. 19 could pose a scheduling conflict with high school football championships at the Dallas Cowboys’ stadium and force the Big 12 to relocate.

However, we will undoubtedly need to be flexible as we progress through the season in order to combat the challenges that lie ahead.”The Big Ten was the first to drop non-conference games from the regular-season schedule, doing so on July 9, citing the benefits of scheduling flexibility, the mitigation of risk that comes with travel and the ability to share testing protocols with fellow conference members.

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10:18 pm ETBreakdown: Big 12 To Play 9-Conference Games and 1 Non-Conference Next SeasonI agree that CBS Sports can send me the "CBS Sports HQ Newsletter" newsletter. 6-keys: media/spln/collegefootball/reg/free/stories Though there are still plenty of details to work out.Only the Pac-12 has a full football schedule with matchups and dates in place among Power Five conferences. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)Connect with the definitive source for global and local news

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With the Big 12 now complete, every conference in the Power Five has agreed to schedules that lean heavily toward conference games, with all but two eliminating non-conference play altogether. "This is why the committee has 13 football experts," Hancock said. (Photo by Ron Jenkins/Getty Images)

Several Big 12 teams have already started preseason practice, with Kansas and Oklahoma slated to play FCS teams on Aug. 29. Big 12 schools agreed Monday night to play one nonconference football game this year to go along with their nine league contests as plans for the pandemic-altered 2020 season continued to fall into place. Adding the Big 12 into the same group ensures this coming season will be different than any other in the modern history of the sport, hearkening instead to previous eras where national schedules were less common and most teams, even those at the very top of the sport, played primarily within their geographic footprint.As with the other conferences, not playing non-conference games eliminates a number of high-profile matchups in September featuring members of the Big 12, including games between West Virginia and Florida State, Baylor and Ole Miss, Oklahoma and Tennessee, and Texas and LSU.The latter two matchups, pitting teams set for the preseason Amway Coaches Poll, promised to play a profound role in the projected chase for the national championship.

Big 12 schools have agreed to play one nonconference football game this year to go along with their nine league contests as plans for the pandemic-altered season continued to fall into place.

The smallest of the major conferences will have its teams play 10-game seasons, including nine conference games and one nonconference contest.