{"id":258146,"date":"2026-04-20T17:34:42","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T17:34:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/258146\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T17:34:42","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T17:34:42","slug":"texas-tech-has-open-slots-in-27-after-acc-changes-prompt-2-cancellations-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/258146\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Tech has open slots in &#8217;27 after ACC changes prompt 2 cancellations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LUBBOCK, Texas &#8212; Reigning Big 12 champion <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.ph\/college-football\/team\/_\/id\/2641\/texas-tech-red-raiders\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Texas Tech<\/a> has open slots on its 2027 football schedule after the cancellations of two nonconference games, the school said Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Texas Tech officials said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.ph\/college-football\/team\/_\/id\/152\/nc-state-wolfpack\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NC State<\/a> cited changes in ACC scheduling when utilizing a buyout clause in the home-and-home agreement between the schools. The Wolfpack were supposed to play in Lubbock in 2027 after beating the Red Raiders at home in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>With the loss of that home game, Texas Tech in turn canceled its scheduled 2027 game at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.ph\/college-football\/team\/_\/id\/249\/north-texas-mean-green\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">North Texas<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Texas Tech athletic director Kirby Hocutt said the school hopes to soon finalize new agreements with a power conference and FBS school.<\/p>\n<p>North Texas will now play at <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"f46ccf4d-1031-4373-2a4b-bc8b3ad9ba97\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.ph\/college-football\/team\/_\/id\/2628\/tcu-horned-frogs\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">TCU<\/a>, another Big 12 team, on the second weekend of the 2027 season. TCU had an open slot after <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"f74a44c4-7492-7a6e-34fe-ab14da6d7f2a\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.ph\/college-football\/team\/_\/id\/24\/stanford-cardinal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Stanford<\/a>, also citing ACC schedule changes, canceled its contract to play the Horned Frogs.<\/p>\n<p>The ACC this year is moving to a nine-game league schedule for football while having teams play at least 10 games against power conference opponents.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.ph\/college-football\/team\/_\/id\/152\/nc-state-wolfpack\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NC State<\/a> was already set to host <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"b82ceb2c-b0bc-16f8-4cdb-d038df734db4\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.ph\/college-football\/team\/_\/id\/2306\/kansas-state-wildcats\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kansas State<\/a> in 2027, which will satisfy the ACC&#8217;s nonconference P4 requirement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LUBBOCK, Texas &#8212; Reigning Big 12 champion Texas Tech has open slots on its 2027 football schedule after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5752,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[168,170,169],"class_list":{"0":"post-258146","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-lubbock","8":"tag-lubbock","9":"tag-lubbock-headlines","10":"tag-lubbock-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258146","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=258146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258146\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}