The Texas Tech Red Raiders have canceled their future football game on the road against the Fresno State Bulldogs, FBSchedules.com has learned.
Texas Tech and Fresno State were scheduled to play a three-game football series beginning on Sept. 15, 2029 at Bulldog Stadium in Fresno, Calif. However, Texas Tech has opted out of that contest and will pay Fresno State the required $1 million cancellation fee, according to a copy of a letter obtained from Texas Tech University via a state public records request.
The second and third games of the three-game series are not affected by the cancellation of the 2029 contest. Those games remain scheduled for Sept. 7, 2030 and Sept. 11, 2032, and both will be played at Jones AT&T Stadium in Lubbock, Texas.
Per the terms of the original contract, Texas Tech will pay Fresno State a $750,000 guarantee for the game in 2030, but no monetary guarantee for the game in 2032. Should Fresno State opt out of either of those contests, it would cost the Bulldogs $1 million for each game.
Texas Tech has already replaced the 2029 game at Fresno State by rescheduling a contest against the Missouri State Bears. The Red Raiders were previously scheduled to host Missouri State on Sept 2, 2028, but pushed the contest back one season to Sept. 15, 2029 while also increasing the guarantee from $525,000 to $800,000.
In other non-conference action in 2029, Texas Tech is scheduled to host the Incarnate Word Cardinals on Sept. 1 and the Mississippi State Bulldogs on Sept. 8.
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Dirty move by Texas Tech. Either Fresno State is going to cancel one of the games to get the 750k payout or keep both games to get a 1.75 million payout. Either option is a below market rate payday for Fresno State
That’s a really bad contract for Fresno. They should find better lawyers to review their contracts.
Good game in the garbage, rarely does Fresno get to see a P4 team go visit them, (I guess they host UCLA that same year) but it would have been good to move this to a different year
Texas Tech on the road to irrelevancy. Incarnate Word and Missouri State should bring along at least 50-100 fans.
This is a great deal for Texas Tech — they get three home games without a return against FBS opponents for a total of $2.5 million, or just over $800K per game. Considering that most teams pay well over $1 million for and FBS buy game today, Tech has done well with this arrangement.
Especially if you like crappy games
I am a Fan of cupcakes now because of extended travel in Conference games.
Remain a Fan of Conference games.
Texas Tech’s football program has been in disarray ever since they fired Mike Leach.