BYU 2013 and 2014 scheudles taking shape!

Updated.

Tom Holmoe said that there would be changes to the BYU schedule.  Today, they announced that the season will begin at Virginia and that the Cavaliers will come to Provo in 2014.  It has been tweeted by @KSLShep that this game replaces Washington State.

Holmoe said that one team that was on the schedule for 2013 wants to back out.  That school was Washington State.  BYU is now 3-1 against the other Cougars and have yet to play in Martin Stadium.  They met in the 1981 Holiday Bowl and 3 times in Provo.  Washington State announced that the game against BYU was moved to 2019 and that they replaced BYU with Southern Utah.  That took away one of my theories on how the BYU schedule would finish up.

He also said another team was ready, but decided not to sign the contract.  We may never know who that is.  I am going to guess that the Aggies from the Land of Enchantment will be on the schedule because, as of today, they only have 8 games and have an opening for the Cougars in November.  I believe that NMSU will become a regular on the Cougars schedule even if fans in Provo are less than happy about the match-up.  Fans in Las Cruces are probably a bit more excited to see BYU regularly, however.  I will also predict that BYU will use the Hawaii exemption so that there are not too many openings in November, even if it is an FCS team.  However, Bronco has a very good record coming off of bye weeks late in the season.

The date for the Middle Tennessee game has not been announced, nor has the 12th nor possible 13th opponent.  BYU did not use the Hawaii exemption in 2011.  I plugged in North Dakota based on the Big Sky Conference announced schedule for 2013.  I do not know if BYU is open to playing an FCS opponent for the 3rd consecutive season.
 
A31 @ Virginia
S7 Texas
S14 Middle Tennessee or bye
S21 Boise State
S28 Utah
O4 @Utah State
O12 Georgia Tech
O19 @ Houston
O26 Middle Tennessee or New Mexico State or North Dakota or bye
N2 Middle Tennessee or bye
N9 @ Wisconsin
N16 New Mexico State or Middle Tennessee or bye
N23 @ Notre Dame
N30 bye
D7 @ Hawaii.

2014 schedule so far...

A30  Open (Big-name opponent)
S6 @ Texas
S13 Open
S20 Virginia
S27 Houston
O3 Utah State
O11 Open
O18 Hawaii
O25 @ Boise State
N1 Open
N8 Southern Mississippi
N15 UNLV
N22 Open
N29 Open

TBA: @ Middle Tennessee (November) and @ Central Florida (September or October).  UNLV has just been added, the first former MWC foe that would schedule the Cougars.  BYU only needs 2 more games.  Probably 2 more road games.  There will likely not be an FCS game in 2014. 

I would not be surprised if BYU visited the Kibbie Dome in November of 2014 and open the season against a "Big Name" opponent like Oregon (just throwin' the name out there...don't have any inside information other than FBSchedules.com which shows that the Ducks have an opening for 2014 and could return to Provo in 2016.).  That would leave them with just one more mid-October or November game to schedule.