FAYETTEVILLE — Arkansas and Baylor could play a regular season football game in the future, Bears head coach Art Briles said Friday.
Briles was quoted by ESPN.com reporter Sam Khan Jr. as saying "there's a chance" the Bears and Razorbacks could play a neutral site game in Houston in 2019. Briles spoke to the Houston Touchdown Club on Friday.
It seems unlikely Arkansas would be able to accommodate a game against Baylor in 2019. The Razorbacks are scheduled to play Michigan in Fayetteville to open that season.
It is also a year in which Arkansas will be the designated home team against Texas A&M in Arlington, Texas. Any away nonconference game that season would leave the Razorbacks with fewer than six games on-campus, granted Arkansas' contract with War Memorial Stadium is renewed past 2018.
The Razorbacks are currently required to play games in Fayetteville, Little Rock and Arlington each season, making scheduling future games a more difficult task.
Arkansas is in need of a marquee nonconference game in 2020. The Razorbacks have home-and-home arrangements up until that season and are scheduled to face Texas in 2021 in a long-awaited return game.
The Southeastern Conference will require its members to play at least one game against an opponent from another Power 5 conference beginning in 2016.
Arkansas and Baylor haven't played since both teams were members of the Southwest Conference in 1991.