Big 12 football schedule 2024: Conference releases slate as Arizona, Arizona State, Colorado, Utah join league

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The Big 12 released its football schedule for the 2024 season on Tuesday, which sees the conference debut a 16-team membership amid sweeping changes thanks to realignment across the sport. After adding four new members in 2022 — BYU, Cincinnati, Houston, and UCF — Oklahoma and Texas depart for the SEC this summer while four Pac-12 programs hop onboard. Arizona, Arizona State, Utah and Colorado — the Buffaloes being an original Big 12 member from 1996-2010 — account for the new additions that bring the headcount to 16 schools. 

With the opponent matrix through 2027 that was released late in 2023, every Big 12 member will see plenty of each other on the gridiron. Only four annual rivalries — BYU-Utah, Arizona-Arizona State, TCU-Baylor and Kansas-Kansas State — are protected by the Big 12, which is the fewest of any power conference. The “Holy War” between the Cougars and Utes is a conference matchup for the first time since 2010, when the in-state foes were both in the Mountain West.

There are also some quirks to the 2024 schedule thanks to the the changing conference landscape. Neither Utah’s Week 2 home game against Baylor or Kansas State’s Week 3 home game against Arizona will count toward the Big 12 standings; each pair of schools had scheduled nonconference matchups this season before the Utes and Sun Devils were added to the league. Also notable is that Kansas will play homes games off campus this season as major renovations take place at Memorial Stadium, including Big 12 home games at the Kansas City Chiefs’ Arrowhead Stadium.

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Author : Dean Straka

Publish date : 2024-01-30 18:57:12

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