What seemed to start as a prank on Twitter could come true.
When the Pac-12 announced on July 10 that it will play conference-only games this fall, eliminating BYU Cougars’ Week 1 soccer competition against the Utah Utes, some proposed that the Cougars should try to replace the Utes in their calendar with the crimson tide of Alabama.
According to a report on Saturday, that has “a great chance” of happening.
AL.com SEC reporter Matt Zenitz wrote Saturday that if Crimson Tide ends up playing more than conference games this fall (the SEC has not made a decision on games just for the conference), he could schedule BYU in Week 1. Like the Cougars, Alabama was also slated to play a Pac-12 team to open the 2020 season, the USC Trojans.
BYU was scheduled to play Utah on Thursday, September 3, while Alabama was scheduled to face USC on September 5.
The Saturday before Zenitz’s report, Crimson Tide sporting director Greg Byrne took to Twitter to quell rumors that Alabama would play Notre Dame this season.
The Deseret News has not confirmed Zenitz’s report.
The Cougars have seen five games eliminated on their 2020 calendar as a result of the Pac-12 and Big Ten’s decisions to play conference-only games this fall, but still on the board is a contest on October 10 at LaVell Edwards Stadium in Provo against an enemy of the Alabama SEC, the Missouri Tigers.
