Large 12 unveils 16-team 2024 soccer schedule

The Large 12’s new-look, 16-team schedule was introduced Tuesday with the mixing of Arizona, Arizona State and Utah into the league in addition to the return of Colorado.

The Large 12 mentioned in November that this schedule, that includes 9 convention video games, prioritizes geography, historic matchups and rivalries. The Large 12 joins the Large Ten in persevering with to play 9 convention video games. The SEC and ACC have adopted an eight-game league schedule for 2024.

BYU will journey to Utah on Nov. 9, the primary time since 2010 {that a} rivalry that has been performed 101 instances might be a convention sport. The 2 final met in 2021.

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Arizona will host Arizona State on Nov. 30 for the Territorial Cup, a rivalry since 1899, and Baylor will play at Houston on Nov. 23 for the primary time since 1995, once they had been each Southwest Convention members. The Sunflower Showdown between Kansas and Kansas State might be Oct. 26.

The primary convention matchup might be in Fort Price on Sept. 14 when UCF visits TCU, kicking off the twenty ninth season of the league, however the first with out Texas or Oklahoma. Though the schedule has been determined for weeks, the precise dates of a number of video games and whether or not they’ll be performed Thursday, Friday or Saturday have but to be decided. Two video games have been confirmed for the Friday after Thanksgiving: Oklahoma State at Colorado and Utah at UCF. Two video games that includes new convention opponents — Baylor at Utah on Sept. 7 and Arizona at Kansas State on the weekend of Sept. 14 — are thought of nonconference matchups as a result of they had been beforehand scheduled.

Tv picks for the primary three weeks of the season might be made by ESPN and Fox this summer time.

The league’s championship might be Dec. 7 at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas.

Kansas will play all six of its dwelling video games within the Kansas Metropolis space as renovations proceed on the crew’s on-campus facility, David Sales space Kansas Memorial Stadium, and the encircling Gateway District. The Jayhawks will play Lindenwood and UNLV at Kids’s Mercy Park, dwelling to Main League Soccer’s Sporting Kansas Metropolis franchise. Kansas will host all 4 of its Large 12 opponents — TCU, Houston, Iowa State and Colorado — at GEHA Area at Arrowhead Stadium, dwelling of the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs.

The college is offering season-ticket packages for all six video games, in addition to a four-game package deal for the video games at Arrowhead Stadium. The scholar-ticket allotment at Kids’s Mercy Park might be much like what Kansas has at Memorial Stadium and might be bigger for the video games at Arrowhead.

“Whereas we had hoped to play these video games in Lawrence, the transfer to alternate venues is required to make sure that our followers, student-athletes and all constituents have the absolute best gameday expertise and that we keep on schedule to finish development for the 2025 season,” Kansas chancellor Douglas Girod mentioned in a press release. “We acknowledge this transfer is just not superb for some members of the Lawrence group, and we hope they may perceive it is a essential one-year transfer to make sure the Gateway District can start benefitting Lawrence as quickly as potential in 2025.”

ESPN’s Adam Rittenberg contributed to this report.