{"id":254484,"date":"2026-04-17T17:35:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T17:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/254484\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T17:35:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T17:35:08","slug":"texas-tech-announces-changes-to-2027-football-schedule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/254484\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Tech announces changes to 2027 football schedule"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LUBBOCK, Texas \u2013 Texas Tech Athletics announced Friday changes to its 2027 football schedule with the cancelation of non-conference games against both N.C. State and North Texas.<\/p>\n<p>N.C. State officials notified Texas Tech in recent weeks that due to a change in ACC scheduling, it would utilize a buyout clause in the home-and-home agreement with the two schools to cancel the Wolfpack&#8217;s scheduled trip to Lubbock on Sept. 18, 2027. The two schools previously faced each other in Raleigh during the 2022 season to open the two-game series.<\/p>\n<p>In order to maintain a minimum of six home games for 2027, Texas Tech will cancel its Sept. 11 trip to North Texas. Texas Tech is currently in the process of securing a replacement power conference opponent for the 2027 season as well as another non-conference game to replace North Texas.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have actively been working on our 2027 football schedule for several weeks now and hope to have a new agreement with a power conference and FBS school finalized soon,&#8221; Texas Tech Director of Athletics <a href=\"https:\/\/texastech.com\/staff-directory\/kirby-hocutt\/261\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"261\" target=\"_blank\">Kirby Hocutt<\/a> said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LUBBOCK, Texas \u2013 Texas Tech Athletics announced Friday changes to its 2027 football schedule with the cancelation of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":254485,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":{"0":"post-254484","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-texas","8":"tag-texas","9":"tag-texas-headlines","10":"tag-texas-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254484","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=254484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254484\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}