The Big 12 has announced two date changes on the 2016 football schedule – Kansas-Texas Tech and TCU-Texas. Both games were changed at the request of Big 12 television partners.
Kansas at Texas Tech was originally scheduled for Saturday, Oct. 1, 2016. The game has been moved up two days and will now be played on Thursday, Sept. 29.
TCU at Texas was originally slated for a Thanksgiving Day kickoff on Thursday, Nov. 24. The game has been pushed back one day and will now be played on “Black Friday,” which is Friday, Nov. 25.
The Big 12 Conference also stated today that television selections for the first three weeks of the 2016 season are due to the conference office by June 1.