The Big 12 Conference announced its 2025 football schedule as the league celebrates its 30th football season. The schedule will see all 16 programs play nine league games.
The 30th year of Big 12 Football will kick off in Dublin, Ireland, as Iowa State and Kansas State square off in the Aer Lingus College Football Classic. This marks the first-ever Week 0 Conference game for the Big 12, as well as the first time a Big 12 competition has been held abroad. Following 15 weeks of action, the Big 12 season will conclude with the 2025 Big 12 Championship Game, held at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, TX, in the first week of December.
For the first time ever, the Big 12 Conference and Big 12 Studios will host a Big 12 Schedule Reveal Show, which will be broadcast on ESPNU, FS2, truTV and streaming on MAX and ESPN+.
The Big 12 will play 14 games against opponents from other Power Four conferences throughout non-conference play, with matchups beginning in Week One with Cincinnati hosting Nebraska at GEHA Field at Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City, TCU playing at North Carolina and Oklahoma State taking on Oregon in Eugene the following week. Other notable non-conference games on Big 12 campuses include Baylor versus Auburn, Colorado hosting Georgia Tech, Iowa State’s rivalry game against Iowa and UCF versus North Carolina.
Defending Big 12 Champions Arizona State will kick off their conference slate in Waco against Baylor on Sept. 20, while a rematch of the 2024 Alamo Bowl will see BYU and Colorado square off in Boulder on Sept. 27. The Conference schedule also features early league match-ups with Houston hosting Colorado in the third week of the season.
Newly-renovated David Booth Stadium will see its first Big 12 matchup on Sept. 20 as the Jayhawks host newly- minted head coach Rich Rodriguez and his West Virginia Mountaineers. UCF head coach Scott Frost will make his Big 12 debut as the Knights travel to Manhattan to battle the 2022 Big 12 Champions, Kansas State, on Sept. 27. Texas Tech – who boasts the top ranking in the transfer portal-will travel to Salt Lake City and Rice-Eccles Stadium as the Utes and Red Raiders square-off in Week Four.
New chapters will be added to Big 12 rivalries throughout the season, including Baylor’s game at TCU in Week Eight with Utah traveling to BYU in the same week. The Sunflower Showdown between Kansas and Kansas State is scheduled for October 25 with the Territorial Cup between Arizona and Arizona State set for the final week of the regular season.
To fulfill pre-existing scheduling agreements established before the Big 12 expanded to 16 members, Arizona and Kansas State will play a non-conference game in Week Three in Tucson.
Big 12 television partners ESPN, FOX and TNT Sports will make their selections for the first three weeks of the season, which will be the first set of kickoff times released. Select Saturday games in the 2025 season may be moved to select Fridays, other special dates, and Black Friday and will be announced in the coming weeks.
