Texas and Michigan have flipped the locations of their initially scheduled home and home series. The Longhorns will now travel to Ann Arbor in 2024, the Wolverines plan to make the return trip to Austin in 2027.
ESPN’s Pete Thamel reports the schedule shuffle aided the 2024 exit for Texas and Oklahoma to the SEC. The new schedule helped Fox agree to end the TV contract a year early.
“A key part of the deal to let the two schools out early was a game flip of a nonconference matchup between Michigan and Texas,” ESPN’s Pete Thamel reported Thursday night. “The flip was a key driver in Fox agreeing to the deal.”
Texas vs. Michigan will be a premier nonconference matchup between two bluebloods in college football. The last game between the two programs came in the 2005 Rose Bowl, with Vince Young leading Texas to a dramatic victory.
Sources: A key part of the deal to let OU and Texas out of Big 12 early was a game flip of a non-conference match-up between Michigan and Texas. Texas will now visit Michigan in 2024 in Ann Arbor and Michigan will return the game in Austin in 2027. They’d been scheduled opposite.
— Pete Thamel (@PeteThamel) February 10, 2023
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