This morning, Tuesday, Jan. 30, 2024, the Big 12 announced its first 16-team conference football schedule. The 2024 season will mark the debut of Arizona, Arizona State, and Utah as Big 12 Conference members, and the return of Colorado back to the league after joining the PAC 12 in 2011.
Big 12 programs will continue to play nine league games without divisions. Regular season league play concludes over Thanksgiving weekend with a full slate of eight games. The Conference season culminates with the 2024 Dr Pepper Big 12 Football Championship Game on Saturday, December 7 at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, TX.
Texas Tech begins the season hosting Abilene Christian University on August 31, 2024. There was a change in schedule for Tech to play Oregon in Eugene, however, with Oregon heading to the Big 10, and Oregon State not finding a home yet, both teams still wanted the in-state rivalry game. So TTU and Washington State agreed to play instead. So Tech will travel to Pulman Washington on Sept. 7, 2024. Tech will take on North Texas at home on Sept. 14.
The Red Raiders will begin conference action by hosting Arizona State on Sept. 21 and will stay home again against Cincinnati on Sept. 28. On Oct. 5, TTU will travel over to take on Arizona. Tech will then get a bye for the next week and pick up playing conference action at home against Baylor on Oct. 19. The next two weeks, the Red Raiders will travel. On Oct. 26 they head to Fort Worth to take on TCU and then on Nov. 2, they take on Iowa State in Aimes Iowa.
Next, they stay home to host Deon Sanders’ Colorado Buffalos on Nov. 9. The next week, the Red Raiders will get their second bye of the season and then head to Stillwater Oklahoma to take on Oklahoma State on Nov. 23. TTU returns back home on Thanksgiving weekend to play West Virginia.
The 29th season of Big 12 Football action debuts on Sept. 14 when TCU hosts UCF. New rivalries will be introduced and old rivalries renewed during the 2024 season. BYU will travel to Utah on Nov. 9, Arizona will host Arizona State on Nov. 30, and Colorado makes its return to Big 12 play on Sept. 21 vs. Baylor. The Sunflower Showdown between Kansas and K-State will take place in Manhattan on Oct. 26, Oklahoma State will host Texas Tech on Nov. 23, and K-State travels to Ames to take on Iowa State. the following week. Cincinnati hosts West Virginia on Nov. 9, for the first time since 2011, and Houston entertains Baylor on Nov. 30 for the first time since they were both Southwest Conference members.
To fulfill preexisting agreements, Arizona at K-State and Baylor at Utah will play in non-conference matchups in 2024. Television selections for the first three weeks of the season will be made by ESPN and FOX this summer and will be announced accordingly.
Beginning this summer, the Big 12 lineup will consist of Arizona, Arizona State, Baylor, BYU, Cincinnati, Colorado, Houston, Iowa State, Kansas, Kansas State, Oklahoma State, TCU, Texas Tech, UCF, Utah and West Virginia.
Here is the full Big 12 schedule:
