BYU’s Three-Year G6 Road Tour was a Dangerous Gamble – the Cougars Are Trying to Escape Unscathed

On Saturday evening, no. 11 BYU will play on the road at Colorado State. BYU is 1 of just 10 10 Power Four schools that will travel to play a true road game against a Group of Six school in 2026. Here is the comprehensive list of P4 teams playing on the road against G6 foes in 2026.

Arizona @ Washington State

Houston @ Georgia Southern

Texas Tech @ Oregon State

That list gets smaller when you consider that Texas Tech’s game at Oregon State was scheduled when the Beavers were a P4 team. Additionally, Arizona’s game at Washington State was scheduled because both schools needed a non-conference game when the Pac-12 crumbled.

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BYU stands alone as the only Power Four team playing a true road game against a Group of Six team for the third consecutive season. The Cougars played on the road at Wyoming in 2024, then they played at East Carolina in 2025. The third and final leg of this three-year G6 road tour will be played at Colorado State.

BYU hasn’t been burned by its scheduling practices yet, but it’s a dangerous gamble that BYU is taking by playing so many road games against G6 teams.

Since 2021, nine P4 programs have played G6 teams on the road in three consecutive seasons: BYU, Boston College, Duke, Kansas, Stanford, UCLA, Vanderbilt, Virginia Tech, and Wake Forest.

Excluding BYU, who is the only team that is yet to finish its three-game stand, Wake Forest is the only team to escape those 3+ games undefeated, and the Demon Deacons needed to win two games by just three points. Every other team on the list lost at least one of their road games against G6 schools. A handful of them lost multiple games.

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BYU is good enough to beat Colorado State. The Cougars are the better team and they should take care of business in Fort Collins. Results aside, this was a dangerou scheduling tactic, and now BYU is just trying to avoid getting burned. There is little upside to a matchup like this – that’s just the reality BYU is living in as a member of the Big 12.

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Publish date : 2026-09-18 18:03:00

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