{"id":228404,"date":"2026-03-31T10:30:40","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T10:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/228404\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T10:30:40","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T10:30:40","slug":"cody-campbell-wants-game-on-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/228404\/","title":{"rendered":"Cody Campbell wants game on Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonchronicle.com\/sports\/college\/article\/cody-campbell-texas-tech-nil-21118649.php\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Cody Campbell<\/a> is a believer some things are off limits when it comes to football in the state of Texas.<\/p>\n<p>Campbell, Texas Tech&#8217;s billionaire megadonor, took to social media on Monday to express his objection to discussions to move the Texas Tech-<a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonchronicle.com\/sports\/college\/cougars\/\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Houston<\/a> football game to a Friday night this season.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Friday Night Lights are sacred in the Great State of Texas!&#8221; Campbell posted on X, formerly known as Twitter. &#8221; It is absolutely absurd that the Big 12 and Fox would consider scheduling Texas Tech and Houston on a Friday night!! I know that (commissioner) Brett Yormark is not a native Texan, but he\u2019s been here long enough to know better! \u00a0Come on, man!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Big 12 was not immediately available for comment.<\/p>\n<p>UH played three times on Friday last season: at home against Colorado and on the road against Central Florida in Big 12 play and at Oregon State in non-conference play.<\/p>\n<p>In recent years, the Texas High School Coaches Association has expressed displeasure with Division I football conferences scheduling Friday night games during the high school regular season.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are asking all conference commissioners to refrain from scheduling Friday night games during the 11-week Texas high school football regular season. We feel Friday nights should be about the communities involved with Texas high school football,&#8221; THECA executive director Joe Martin said in 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cody Campbell is a believer some things are off limits when it comes to football in the state&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":228405,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[168,170,169],"class_list":["post-228404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lubbock","tag-lubbock","tag-lubbock-headlines","tag-lubbock-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228404\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}