IRVING, Texas — The Big 12 has moved six of its conference football games to Friday nights next fall, along with another matchup of league teams that won’t count in the standings.
Those were among the 10 games involving Big 12 teams selected Friday by the league’s television partners, ESPN and Fox, for Friday night broadcasts. There will be two games on three of those nights.
On the opening weekend of the season, Baylor will host Southeastern Conference member Auburn while Colorado will be home against Atlantic Coast Conference team Georgia Tech on Aug. 29. Arizona plays at Arizona State while Utah is at Kansas on Nov. 28, the day after Thanksgiving — better known as Black Friday.
There will also be two games on Friday, Sept. 12, with Colorado at Houston while Kansas State visits Arizona. That latter matchup of Wildcats won’t count in the Big 12 standings because it’s part of a preexisting schedule agreement between the two teams before expansion to 16 teams last year, with Arizona among four schools coming over from the Pac-12.
The other four Friday night games are Tulsa at Oklahoma State (Sept. 19), TCU at Arizona State (Sept. 26), West Virginia at BYU (Oct. 3) and Houston at UCF (Nov. 7).