Arizona Wildcats schedule future games with SEC opponent Mississippi State

The Greg Byrne Bowl, as it is being called, will pit Arizona against Mississippi State on the football field on 2022 and 2023.

The schools, which have never met in football, will play each other in Tucson in 2022 with a return trip to Mississippi State the following season.

Byrne, Arizona’s athletic director since 2010, held the same position at Mississippi State before coming to Tucson.

Doug Haller of the Arizona Republic reports that Arizona is the only Pac-12 school that has not scheduled a non-conference contest against a Power 5 conference school through 2020.

ALLSPORTSTUCSON.com publisher, writer and editor Javier Morales is a former Arizona Press Club award winner. He also writes articles for Bleacher Report and Lindy’s College Sports.

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ARIZONA’S RECORD VS. THE SEC
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With a 12-game schedule including nine Pac-12 games, Arizona has eight potential slots to fill for non-conference games dating from 2015 to 2020. The Wildcats currently have 10 of a potential 18 non-conference slots filled from 2015 through 2010.

The Wildcats’ non-conference opponents over the next 10 years:

2014
UNLV, at Texas-San Antonio, Nevada

2015
Texas-San Antonio, at Nevada

2016
Grambling State, BYU (Glendale)

2017
UTEP (site TBA)

2018
BYU, UTEP (site TBA)

2019
at Hawaii

2020
Hawaii, at BYU

2022
Mississippi State

2023
at Mississippi State

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