Oklahoma State’s future football schedule is getting a little heavier, and a lot more SEC-flavored.
The Cowboys announced a home-and-home series with Mississippi State for the 2030 and 2031 seasons, adding another Power Four opponent to a slate that already includes Tulsa in both years. Mississippi State will come to Stillwater on Sept. 7, 2030, and Oklahoma State will return the trip to Starkville on Sept. 6, 2031.
That means the Cowboys now have two confirmed nonconference games set for each of those seasons. In 2030, they’ll host Mississippi State and then head to Tulsa at H.A.
Chapman Stadium on Sept. 14, one week later. In 2031, the order flips: Oklahoma State plays at Mississippi State, then welcomes Tulsa to Stillwater on Sept.
The series with Mississippi State brings back a matchup that has been dormant since 2013. Oklahoma State holds a 3-2 edge all-time, and the most recent meeting was a 21-3 Cowboys win over the Bulldogs in the AdvoCare Texas Kickoff at Reliant Stadium in Houston.
The numbers suggest the venue matters in this matchup. Aside from that neutral-site game in 2013, the home team has taken every meeting. Oklahoma State beat Mississippi State in Stillwater in 1971 and 1998, while the Bulldogs won in Starkville in 1970 and 1999.
The 2031 game will also be a notable one geographically. It will be only the fourth time Oklahoma State has played a football game in Mississippi. Beyond the two previous trips to Mississippi State, the Cowboys’ only other game in the state came in 2001 against Southern Miss.
Mississippi State is the latest addition to a future schedule that keeps loading up on Power Four competition. Oklahoma State has already lined up Arkansas in 2027, 2032 and 2033, Michigan State in 2028 and 2029, and Nebraska in 2034 and 2035.
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