{"id":290549,"date":"2026-05-13T02:50:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T02:50:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/290549\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T02:50:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T02:50:15","slug":"texas-tech-adds-new-mexico-to-2027-football-schedule-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/290549\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Tech adds New Mexico to 2027 football schedule"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; Texas Tech will welcome New Mexico back to Lubbock early in the 2027 football season as part of a one-game scheduling agreement the two schools announced Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Lobos are coming off a 9-4 season a year ago, and will replace North Texas on Texas Tech\u2019s 2027 non-conference slate with New Mexico traveling to Lubbock on Sept. 18, 2027. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">According to Texas Tech Athletics, Texas Tech notified North Texas officials in April of its plans to cancel a previously scheduled 2027 road game in Denton to maintain a minimum of six home games.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">New home game added in 2027 \ud83d\udcc5<\/p>\n<p>This game replaces a road game at UNT and maintains a minimum of six home games as we actively search for a power conference opponent to fill our second open date in 2027.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udcf0: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/gMdtGWWzXy\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/t.co\/gMdtGWWzXy<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/FntFPtFkx8\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/FntFPtFkx8<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Texas Tech Football (@TexasTechFB) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TexasTechFB\/status\/2054215524473536819?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">May 12, 2026<\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">It will be the 46th all-time meeting between the Red Raiders and Lobos in a series that will be renewed for the first time since 2012. Texas Tech is 37-6-2 versus New Mexico, having won 14 of the past 15 meetings. The series dates back to 1931 where the Red Raiders delivered a 32-6 victory in Lubbock in the first-ever meeting between the two former Border Conference members.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Red Raiders are 23-2 all-time at home against the Lobos, who have lost nine-straight road trips in Lubbock, including a 49-14 rout in the last meeting between the two schools early in the 2012 season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">New Mexico fills one of two open dates on Texas Tech\u2019s 2027 non-conference schedule as the Red Raiders are actively searching for a power conference opponent for the other available date.<\/p>\n<p>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; Texas Tech will welcome New Mexico back to Lubbock early in the 2027 football&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":75405,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[106259,8079,301,300,44453,30327,168,170,169,2383,1769],"class_list":["post-290549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lubbock","tag-106259","tag-att-stadium","tag-athletics","tag-football","tag-jones","tag-lobos","tag-lubbock","tag-lubbock-headlines","tag-lubbock-news","tag-new-mexico","tag-texas-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290549","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=290549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290549\/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=290549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}