The Mountain West Conference and the remaining two members of the Pac-12 Conference signed a football scheduling agreement for 2024, but it appears the two sides will not extend that agreement past this season.
According to a report from The Athletic, the deadline for the Mountain West and Pac-12’s football scheduling agreement for the 2025 season was Sunday, Sept. 1, 2024. Under that agreement, each Mountain West team played one less conference game and replaced that with a game against either Oregon State or Washington State.
“The football scheduling arrangement with Oregon State and Washington State was a one-year agreement,” the Mountain West said in a statement to The Athletic on Monday. “For the 2025 season, the Mountain West and its member institutions are moving forward with their conference and nonconference schedules. Our focus remains on the current season and our exceptional teams.”
If the two sides are unable to come to a new agreement, the football schedules for Oregon State and Washington State in 2025 would be up in the air.
Oregon State currently has six games scheduled for next season, beginning with back-to-back home games against California and Fresno State. Here’s a look at the Beavers’ current schedule for 2025:
2025 Oregon State Football Schedule
- 08/30 – California
- 09/06 – Fresno State
- 09/13 – at Texas Tech
- 09/20 – at Oregon
- 09/27 – Houston
- TBA – Portland State
Without a Mountain West agreement to fill out its slate, Oregon State would need to schedule six additional contests.
Washington State is in slightly worse shape with only five games scheduled for next season, which means they need seven additional opponents. Here’s how the Cougars’ schedule for 2025 looks at the moment:
2025 Washington State Football Schedule
- 08/30 – Idaho
- 09/06 – San Diego State
- 09/13 – at North Texas
- 09/27 – at Virginia
- TBA – Washington
With just under a year until the 2025 season kicks off, Oregon State and Washington State still have plenty of time to fill out their schedules. There are plenty of other teams with incomplete non-conference schedules as well, according to previous announcements and public record searches.
According to our research, 27 teams still need a non-conference opponent in 2025, and three teams need two opponents (Northwestern, Stanford, and ULM). That is, of course, if those spots haven’t been filled already but remain unannounced.
Most of those 27 teams, however, will likely complete their schedules with an opponent from the Football Championship Subdivision (FCS).
Both Oregon State & Washington State would make excellent independent teams in CFB.
This would be fair to Mountain West Conference courtesy of Boise State Fan however I have a lot of respect for both teams.
WSU and ORSU could play each other HaH late in the season. And the Apple Cup and Civil War could also be moved to the last weekend of the season (or late in the season). That would leave them with 4-5 more slots to fill (most late in the season). Nothing says they can’t play 3 FCS games, though.
Teams can only count one FCS win towards the six they need for bowl eligibility. They’ll need to be 8-4 to be bowl eligible, if one assumes that they win all 3 FCS games.
To: Richard, Schedule, Vegas Saxon, Dan Rakow, Mike Rawls,
B18g10 OR & WA don’t want non conference rivalry Games in November.
They’re in the hunt 4 Trust Conference Playoff Spots.
WA State – OR State have to front load their Season with Trust 4 Teams.
Notre Dame has no interest in Independent November Games.
U can do the research, fact checking yourself by going to Brigham Young Uni. Football schedule from 2014 -2022 & see what schedules Trust 5 Conference + Notre Dame offered them.
Notre Dame even withdrew from their publicised 2 for 1 (ND home for BYU home) because a Trust 3 Conf. & ACC17+ND can do that to Independent teams which WA St -OR St now are.
Independently of BYU’s own efforts ESPN helped schedule some of their Trust 5 foes & paid them $5-6 ? Million per year. That’s $thousands on the multiMillions Trust Unis receive.
OR State – WA State do not have signed agreements 4 $$ or Games w/ ESPN.
Red Cougars & Beavers aren’t telling anyone publicly what their strategies, uses of residual Conf. Of Champions $$ they litigated against the other 9 Programs are.
New Mexico State Aggies, a Team in the Western expanse, like OR St. – Wa St. had no Conf. after the dismemberment of the WAC by the MW, UTSA, Texas State.
The @SunBeltConf dropped the Aggies after their contract from 2013 – 2017 was over. The Aggies were too distant from the rest of the SBC.
The CW Network is slightly above the linear coverage NMSU received from 2018 – 2022.
Eh, going 5-4 vs. FBS teams (many outside the P5) doesn’t exactly strike me as a massive hill to climb.
OSU and WSU each have one more game as they play each other.
The problem isn’t needing 5-6 games, it’s needing 5-6 games in October and November. They can play each other in November, but after that it will get challenging.
Eh, besides playing themselves and getting their in-state rivals to move their rivalry game to Nov, they likely can fill up with G5 and FCS teams in Oct and Nov.
Uconn needs a game in 2025 and 2026 seems like a easy match to do some home and homes with each other. Would help late in the season too.
Add WSU @ Cal, Stanford @ WSU, OSU @ Stanford. Shorter travel, P4 opponents. WSU and OSU are cash rich and desperate for opponents. Paid MW $14M for 14 games (half on the road). I could see Pac-2 teams accepting 1 for 2s or overpaying for games.