{"id":735702,"date":"2026-04-18T02:02:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T02:02:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/735702\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T02:02:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T02:02:14","slug":"texas-tech-has-open-slots-in-27-after-acc-changes-prompt-2-cancellations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/735702\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Tech has open slots in ’27 after ACC changes prompt 2 cancellations"},"content":{"rendered":"

Apr 17, 2026, 08:31 PM ET<\/p>\n

LUBBOCK, Texas — Reigning Big 12 champion Texas Tech<\/a> has open slots on its 2027 football schedule after the cancellations of two nonconference games, the school said Friday.<\/p>\n

Texas Tech officials said NC State<\/a> cited changes in Atlantic Coast Conference scheduling when utilizing a buyout clause in the home-and-home agreement between the schools. The Wolfpack were supposed to play in Lubbock in 2027 after beating the Red Raiders at home in 2022.<\/p>\n

With the loss of that home game, Texas Tech in turn canceled its scheduled 2027 game at North Texas<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Texas Tech athletic director Kirby Hocutt said the school hopes to soon finalize new agreements with a power conference and FBS school.<\/p>\n

North Texas will now play at TCU<\/a>, another Big 12 team, on the second weekend of the 2027 season. TCU had an open slot then after Stanford<\/a>, also citing ACC schedule changes, canceled its contract to play the Horned Frogs.<\/p>\n

The ACC this year is moving to a nine-game league schedule for football while having teams play at least 10 games against power-conference opponents.<\/p>\n

North Carolina State was already set to host Big 12 team Kansas State<\/a> in 2027, which will satisfy the ACC’s new nonconference P4 requirement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Apr 17, 2026, 08:31 PM ET LUBBOCK, Texas — Reigning Big 12 champion Texas Tech has open slots…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":735703,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[1318,1317,1315,1316,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-735702","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-ncaa","10":"tag-ncaa-football","11":"tag-ncaafootball","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116423252150455432","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=735702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735702\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/735703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=735702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=735702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=735702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}