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Thanks to some nice hustle by the Kansas City Star, BYU's 12th opponent for the 2015 football season is now known.

It will be the Wagner Seahawks, an Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) team that competes in the Northeast Conference. Wagner plays its home games in Staten Island, N.Y., at 3,300-seat Wagner College Stadium, but this particular game will be played on Oct. 24 in Provo.

The Star's report about BYU hosting Wagner isn't totally new — Wagner officials have made mention of it, or at least its possibility, for several months.

As of noon on Tuesday, BYU had not officially announced it, although it appears from the contract of the BYU-Missouri series that was signed in November that BYU has known about it since then. BYU officials made no mention of it in their news release when they inked the deal with Missouri.

Basically, as the Star details, and as we've explained in this space before, BYU is playing Wagner because it had to move a game against UNLV to 2016 or 2017 to get the Nov. 14 Missouri game at Arrowhead Stadium in 2015 on the schedule.

BYU gave the Idaho State game it had previously scheduled on Oct. 24 to UNLV to fill that void on the Rebels' schedule.

So, the Cougars traded one FCS school — albeit one with some local interest — for another. Wagner went 7-4 last season, 5-1 in league.

That should put a wrap on the Cougars' 2015 schedule — at least the 12 opponents. My guess is that officials are waiting to release it in its entirety until more TV broadcast plans are known. Also, as has been the case in the past, some games could be moved to Thursday or Friday nights to accommodate TV, etc.

Here's the 2015 schedule as it currently shapes up:

Sept. 5 — at Nebraska

Sept. 12 — Boise State

Sept. 19 — at UCLA

Sept. 26 — at Michigan

Oct. 2 — Connecticut

Oct. 10 — East Carolina

Oct. 17 — Cincinnati

Oct. 24 — Wagner

Oct. 31 — Open date

Nov. 7 — at San Jose State

Nov. 14 — vs. Missouri at Arrowhead Stadium, Kansas City

Nov. 21 — Fresno State

Nov. 28 — at Utah State

Here's the actual contract for the BYU-Missouri series, obtained by the Star through a FOIA request, I presume.

Couple of interesting nuggets:

* The visiting team's conference will assign the officials. BYU is an independent, but uses Big 12 officials in instances such as these.

* The home team guarantees a payment of $250,000 to the visiting team, along with 300 complimentary tickets. The visiting team can request up to 3,000 more tickets to sell on consignment.

* BYU and Missouri will split the costs 50-50 for Wagner College to travel to Provo and for Idaho State to travel to Las Vegas.

* BYU was scheduled to pay Idaho State $420,000 to play in Provo on Oct. 24.

* The cancellation policy — remember, Missouri has agreed to play at LaVell Edwards Stadium in 2020 — calls for the team that cancels to pay $1 million dollars to the other within 30 days of the scheduled date of the game.

* The contract includes language that enables BYU to get out of the game, without having to pay the $1 million, if it joins a new or existing conference that includes at least four schools that currently belong to a Power 5 conference. Yes, the term "Power 5 conference" is in the contract.

* One thing the contract does not address is alcohol sales, so we have to assume that those sales will go on unabated and unrestricted at Arrowhead — which is obviously not on a college campus. Back when BYU played Oklahoma at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, the contract surfaced and called for some restrictions on booze, presumably asked for by BYU.