{"id":246969,"date":"2026-04-13T00:56:44","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T00:56:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/246969\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T00:56:44","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T00:56:44","slug":"big-12-announces-schedule-changes-for-texas-tech-football","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/246969\/","title":{"rendered":"Big 12 announces schedule changes for Texas Tech football"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; On Friday, the Big 12 Conference announced changes to the upcoming football season including two updates to Texas Tech\u2019s schedule.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Red Raiders will host the Houston Cougars on Friday, Sept. 18 at Jones AT&amp;T Stadium.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Texas Tech will then host TCU for a Thanksgiving Day game on Nov. 26. This will be the first time since 2015 that the Red Raiders will play on Thanksgiving.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The league&#8217;s biggest brand is in demand.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Big12Conference?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@Big12Conference<\/a> has announced the following date changes for two home games after consultation with its TV partners. Game times and TV designations are expected at a later date. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/QGgy1SybNL\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/QGgy1SybNL<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Texas Tech Football (@TexasTechFB) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TexasTechFB\/status\/2042634409807954172?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">April 10, 2026<\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">According to Texas Tech Athletics, the Red Raiders haven\u2019t hosted a Thanksgiving game in Lubbock since 1937.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Red Raiders will host seven games in Lubbock in 2026. Visiting Raiderland will be Abilene Christian on Sept. 5, Sam Houston State on Sept. 26, Arizona State on Oct. 17, Arizona on Halloween and West Virginia on Nov. 7.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Below is a list of the weekday game selections released by the Big 12 on Friday:<\/p>\n<p>Friday, Sept. 11 &#8211; Missouri at KansasFriday, Sept. 18 &#8211; Houston at Texas TechFriday, Oct. 9 &#8211; Iowa State at BYUFriday, Oct. 30 &#8211; Baylor at UCFFriday, Nov. 6 &#8211; TCU at ArizonaFriday, Nov. 13 &#8211; Houston at ColoradoFriday, Nov. 20 &#8211; Iowa State at UCFThursday, Nov. 26 &#8211; TCU at Texas TechFriday, Nov. 27 &#8211; West Virginia at Utah<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 KCBD. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; On Friday, the Big 12 Conference announced changes to the upcoming football season including&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":75405,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[315,1890,11852,261,9197,300,56,168,170,169,311,1775,154,853,1769,415,12355,299,310],"class_list":{"0":"post-246969","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-lubbock","8":"tag-big-12","9":"tag-big-12-conference","10":"tag-brandon-soliz","11":"tag-college-football","12":"tag-cougars","13":"tag-football","14":"tag-houston","15":"tag-lubbock","16":"tag-lubbock-headlines","17":"tag-lubbock-news","18":"tag-red-raider-football","19":"tag-red-raiders","20":"tag-sports","21":"tag-tcu","22":"tag-texas-tech","23":"tag-texas-tech-red-raiders","24":"tag-thanksgiving-day","25":"tag-ttu","26":"tag-ttu-football"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246969","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=246969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246969\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}