BYU Football Will Travel More Miles than Most Big 12 Schools in 2024

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The 2024 version of the Big 12 conference will feature more teams than ever before: 16. It will also capture four time zones. Travel miles will become an import

ant storyline to monitor each year. Especially for the teams on the outer rings of the conference geography, long trips will be commonplace. Travel miles should be considered when evaluating the difficulty of a team's schedule. The longer the road trips, the more difficult the road games will be to win.

On paper, BYU has one of the more difficult schedules on conference in 2024. The travel requirements won't make it any easier either. Kalani Sitake and the BYU football program will travel more miles than most Big 12 teams in 2024. BYU will travel just under 9,600 miles. That ranks fourth narrowly behind Arizona State, Utah, and UCF.Teams like UCF, BYU, Utah, Arizona, West Virginia and Arizona state will consistently rank near the top of this list.

Schools in the middle of the conference will have that advantage on an annual basis. Oklahoma State, for example, will travel less than half the miles that Arizona State will travel in 2024.. After hosting Southern Illinois in the season opener, BYU will travel to SMU and Wyoming for consecutive road games to wrap up the nonconference slate.Casey Lundquist is the publisher and lead editor of Cougs Daily. He has covered BYU athletics for the last four years.

 

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