The Big 12 Conference officially announced the football schedule for the 2023-24 season on Tuesday afternoon.
Here is a look at who each of the five Texas schools in the conference will be playing this year.
TCU
09/02 vs. Colorado
09/09 vs. Nicholls State
09/16 at Houston
09/23 vs. SMU
09/30 vs. West Virginia
10/07 at Iowa State
10/14 vs. BYU
10/21 at Kansas State
10/28 Bye Week
11/02 at Texas Tech
11/11 vs. Texas
11/18 vs. Baylor
11/25 at Oklahoma
The Horned Frogs will open the season by hosting newly hired Deion Sanders and the University of Colorado-Boulder. September also brings the opening of Big 12 play against new member Houston and the Battle for the Iron Skillet against SMU. TCU also gets a rematch against defending conference champion Kansas State on the road in October.
TCU will only play two of the four new members, as UCF and Cincinnati are not on the schedule.
Baylor
09/02 vs. Texas State
09/09 vs. Utah
09/16 vs. Jacksonville
09/23 vs. Texas
09/30 at UCF
10/07 vs. Texas Tech
10/14 Bye Week
10/21 at Cincinnati
10/28 vs. Iowa State
11/04 vs. Houston
11/11 at Kansas State
11/18 at TCU
11/25 vs. West Virginia
Baylor has a challenging nonconference game against a veteran Utah team with Cameron Rising returning at quarterback. The Bears will open Big 12 play by hosting the Texas Longhorns and have the honor of being the first Texas team to play at UCF this season. Houston, Kansas State, and TCU could all be challenging games down the stretch.
Texas
09/02 vs. Rice
09/09 at Alabama
09/16 vs. Wyoming
09/23 at Baylor
09/30 vs. Kansas
10/07 at Oklahoma (Dallas)
10/14 Bye Week
10/21 at Houston
10/28 vs. BYU
11/04 vs. Kansas State
11/11 at TCU
11/18 at Iowa State
11/24 vs. Texas Tech
The Longhorns make a reciprocating trip to Tuscaloosa in Week Two after challenging Alabama in Austin last season. Texas also plays its annual rivalry game at the Cotton Bowl in Dallas at the beginning of October and has some challenging road games in the back half of the season.
Texas Tech
09/02 at Wyoming
09/09 vs. Oregon
09/16 vs. Tarleton
09/23 at West Virginia
09/30 vs. Houston
10/07 at Baylor
10/14 vs. Kansas State
10/21 at BYU
10/28 Bye Week
11/02 vs. TCU
11/11 at Kansas
11/18 vs. UCF
11/24 at Texas
Oregon will be a test for Texas Tech in the nonconference portion of the schedule. The Red Raiders will then open conference play in one of the harshest road environments in the conference at West Virginia, play three of the new members, and have both Kansas State and TCU on the schedule. Texas Tech will end the season at Texas on Black Friday.
Houston
09/02 vs. Texas-San Antonio
09/09 at Rice
09/16 vs. TCU
09/23 at Sam Houston
09/30 at Texas Tech
10/07 Bye Week
10/12 vs. West Virginia
10/21 vs. Texas
10/28 at Kansas State
11/04 at Baylor
11/11 vs. Cincinnati
11/18 vs. Oklahoma State
11/25 at UCF
The schedule makers did Houston no favors in its first year in the Big 12. The Cougars will open conference play against national runner-up TCU and have to travel to Kansas State later in the year. They also play quite a few consistently good programs like Baylor, Cincinnati, Oklahoma State, and UCF.
University of Cincinnati, University of Houston, University of Central Florida, and BYU will be joining the Big 12 this season, giving the conference 14 members.
University of Oklahoma and University of Texas will remain members of the conference in 2023 after rumors of an early exit to the SEC.
The Big 12 Championship will be played between the top two teams in the conference at AT&T Stadium in Arlington on December 2.
There will once again be no divisions in the Big 12 this season.