STATESBORO - The Georgia Southern Athletics Department announced Thursday several major changes to its future football schedule, highlighted by the addition of home and home dates with Brigham Young and Boise State.

Georgia Southern and Boise State will start a new home and home series that begins on Sept. 5, 2020 with the Eagles playing at Boise State. On Aug. 31, 2024, the Broncos return the trip to Allen E. Paulson Stadium in Statesboro to complete the series.

Georgia Southern and BYU will start a new home and home series that begins on Nov. 20, 2021 with the Cougars visiting Georgia Southern and concludes on Oct. 12, 2024 with GS traveling to Provo, Utah.

To make these additions work, GS and Houston had to agree to move their home and home series from 2020/21 to 2026/27. The series now begins on Sept. 26, 2026 with the Cougars playing at Georgia Southern and wraps up on Sept. 18, 2027 with Georgia Southern playing at Houston.

Additionally, the Eagles have added a home game with Campbell to the future slate. GS will host the Camels, who will be making the move to Big South in 2018, to Paulson Stadium on Sept. 12, 2020. To accommodate this move, the previously announced game at Ole Miss moves to Oct. 31 of 2020 in Oxford.

"Our goal in scheduling is to ensure our fans have at least six opportunities to watch the Eagles play at home and create the most attractive home schedule possible," GS Athletic Director Tom Kleinlein said. "With these moves, the 2020 and 2021 schedules now both feature six home games for the Eagles as opposed to the seven and five that were originally scheduled. This means we will have six games at home through at least 2024. In these three teams, you have one school that has won a national championship and is steeped in history as well as two Group of Five programs that have been ranked in the top 25 in the past two seasons."

Georgia Southern will have another announcement regarding scheduling in the coming weeks. For now *, this is how the announced future non-conference slate stacks up through 2027:

2018
Sept. 1 - vs. Presbyterian College (Paulson)
Sept. 8 - vs. UMass (Paulson)
Sept. 15 - at Clemson (Clemson, S.C.)
Oct. 20 - at New Mexico State (Las Cruces, N.M.)

2019
Aug. 31 - at LSU (Baton Rouge, La.)
Sept. 7 - vs. Maine (Paulson)
Sept. 14 - at Minnesota (Minneapolis, Minn.)
Oct. 19 - vs. New Mexico State (Paulson)

2020
Sept. 5 - at Boise State (Boise, Idaho)
Sept. 12 - vs. Campbell (Paulson)
Sept. 19 - vs. Florida Atlantic (Paulson)
Oct. 31 - at Ole Miss (Oxford, Miss.)

2021
Sept. 18 - at Arkansas (Fayetteville, Ark.)
Sept. 25 - at Florida Atlantic (Boca Raton, Fla.)
Nov. 20 - BYU (Paulson)
TBA - Home vs. FCS

2022
Sept. 17 - at  UAB (Birmingham, Ala.)
Sept. 24 - Ball State (Paulson)
TBA - Away vs. FBS
TBA - Home vs. FCS 

2023
Sept. 9 - UAB (Paulson)
Sept. 23 - at Ball State (Muncie, Ind.)
TBA - Away vs. FBS
TBA - Home vs. FCS 

2024
Aug. 31 - Boise State (Paulson)
Oct. 12 - at BYU (Provo, Utah)
TBA - Away vs. FBS
TBA - Home vs. FCS 

2025
TBA - Away vs. FBS
TBA - Away vs. FBS
TBA - Home vs. FBS
TBA - Home vs. FCS 

2026
Sept. 26 - Houston (Statesboro)
TBA - Away vs. FBS
TBA - Away vs. FBS
TBA - Home vs. FCS

2027
Sept. 18 - at Houston (Houston, Texas)
TBA - Away vs. FBS
TBA - Home vs. FBS
TBA - Home vs. FCS

* - subject to change