{"id":290282,"date":"2026-05-12T23:22:20","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T23:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/290282\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T23:22:20","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T23:22:20","slug":"texas-tech-tcu-set-for-thanksgiving-night-on-espn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/290282\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Tech, TCU set for Thanksgiving night on ESPN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LUBBOCK, Texas \u2013 Texas Tech learned its second game time for the 2026 season Tuesday as the Thanksgiving kickoff between the Red Raiders and TCU is slated for 7 p.m. CT on ESPN. The game time and network designation were revealed Tuesday during Disney&#8217;s annual upfront presentation in New York City.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nTexas Tech and TCU will be the lone college game played on Thanksgiving Day, giving the Red Raiders another prominent national television window in their regular-season finale. FOX previously announced last week the Sept. 18 Big 12 Conference opener versus Houston will similarly kick at 7 p.m. CT inside Jones AT&amp;T Stadium in front of a national Friday night audience.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nTCU represents the first Thanksgiving Day opponent to visit Jones AT&amp;T Stadium since Arkansas edged the Red Raiders, 17-14, to close out the 1977 regular season. The Red Raiders aren&#8217;t strangers to Thanksgiving night matchups, however, as Texas Tech previously faced Texas in Austin back in 2015, knocking off the in-state rival thanks to 372 passing yards from Patrick Mahomes II, 173 rushing yards and two touchdowns from DeAndre Washington\u00a0and a late trick play from Jakeem Grant that sealed the win.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nThe Red Raiders will be looking to bring back the Saddle Trophy in what will be the 68th all-time meeting in the series. Texas Tech leads the series 33-31-3 overall, which includes a 3-0 mark in Thursday night matchups since TCU joined the Big 12 in 2012.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nThe Battle for the Saddle Trophy matchup could possibly have Big 12 Championship implications as the Red Raiders will be looking to get back to AT&amp;T Stadium in Arlington for a second-consecutive season. ESPN&#8217;s announcement Tuesday also unveiled the kick time and television designation for the Dec. 4 Big 12 Championship, which will air at 7 p.m. CT on ABC.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nAdditional game times and television designations for Texas Tech&#8217;s first two non-conference opponents against Abilene Christian on Sept. 5 and at Oregon State on Sept. 12 will be announced later this month.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nTexas Tech previously announced Monday it has sold out of its full allotment of football season tickets for the fourth-consecutive season. Red Raider Club members can exclusively purchase single-game tickets for all seven home games beginning Wednesday ahead of the general public on-sale date next Monday (May 18).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LUBBOCK, Texas \u2013 Texas Tech learned its second game time for the 2026 season Tuesday as the Thanksgiving&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":290283,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-290282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290282","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=290282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290282\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/290283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}