An interesting wrinkle has appeared due to Colorado’s move to the Big 12. The Buffs were slated to play six total nonconference games against three different Big 12 schools over the next 14 years — Houston (2025, 2026), Kansas State (2027, 2028) and Oklahoma State (2036, 2037) — but those home-and-homes are now being scratched with CU joining the Big 12 in 2024.
This is not the first time that Colorado has faced this problem. In the Buffs’ first season playing in the Pac-12 in 2011, they had Cal on the schedule but kept it as a nonconference game. This time around, however, athletic director Rick George is taking a different approach.
“We’ll have to dissolve those contracts, obviously, and then we will look to fill those games as quickly as we can,” George said. “But what I think it gives us an opportunity to do is create more home contests here because we may go out and look for opponents that are just going to play in Boulder one year. So rather than having six games, we’ll have seven, which again, helps us in revenue generation for our department.”
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