The Oklahoma State Cowboys football team lost its home-and-home matchup with one of the preeminent programs in college football on Thursday. They can blame the SEC if they like. As the SEC transitions to a nine-game conference schedule beginning this season, the league’s 16 members have made difficult alterations to their long-term non-conference game agreements to accommodate the ninth game. That was at the root of the decision as Oklahoma State and Alabama called off their scheduled series in 2028 and 2029. The Cowboys announced that they will play the Michigan State Spartans as a replacement for those games. Michigan State will visit Stillwater on Sept. 16, 2028, and the Cowboys will travel to East Lansing, Mich. on Sept. 15, 2029, the school announced . Re-Making Non-Conference Schedules Alabama Crimson Tide head coach Kalen Deboer. | Kirby Lee-Imagn Images The Big 12 has played a nine-game conference schedule since the league shrunk to 10 members more than a decade ago.…