2013 schedule

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pantherhorn

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anybody got any idea when this will be announced. is big 12 waiting to decide who texas will play next thanksgiving? is big 12 waiting to add another team? whats up with the schedule?
 
Once WVU and TCU joined, they just gave them Mizzou/A&M's schedules and told them we'd revisit the scheduling in the next summer session. So they probably won't be announced until a preliminary one in late Spring.

I think Texas is trying to find a way to host a home game on Thanksgiving every year, which actually kind of makes sense to me because we have to do the neutral site thing against OU every year (we lose a home game every other year).

They'll probably move the weeks around on the calendar, but we'll have home games against Tech, KU, KSU, and OK State. Road games against WVU, TCU, BU, and ISU. The OU game in Dallas. I think they want Tech on Turkey Day.
 
While at home every Thanksgiving would be great for Texas; it destroys the scheduling for the remainder of the conference. Conference scheduling attempts to have the same game on the same weekend every year alternating venues. A rotation means the entire conference schedule has to be changed every year. Probably not going to happen.

Tech would be the choice, but who wants spend every other Thanksgiving in Lubbock when the weather could play a big part of the game in addition to all of the sand aggy crap?
 
I don't understand why so many people are stuck on the idea of wanting to have a game on Thanksgiving. If it's a worthy opponent, then great idea. But this year's game against TCU is going to have a lot of empty seats.
 
It's not that difficult to move game weekends year to year. And we'd be playing the teams at home that we would have had a home game against anyhow, so logistically we're only talking about weekend swaps with another conference matchup. I don't think we ever had a "set week" for any Big 12 games when there were still divisions, except for A&M. Even the OU game moved around from 1st-2nd weekend of October from year to year.

I agree that we have sucky matchups in the conference for Thanksgiving, but given the choice, I'd still prefer to have a home game that week every year.
 
I say swap out a conference game with an out of conference game and reschedule our big boy teams scheduled (ND, USC, etc.) for that day.
 
Yeah if we could get them to agree to that. I think everyone would prefer it. But alternating between Tech and TCU/BU is easier at the moment.
 
"Heavyweight" program this late = potential disaster in polls

Aggie = was a 80% probability

Just saying!!! Give me TCU or Tech
 
But winning against a good team late is preferrable to winning it early (remember 2008 how we were punished for going on our win streak against top teams too early and then ending the year with several easy victories?)
 
BV makes a good point: a traditional home-and-away T-giving game against a big rival will sell out most years. Texas v. aTm was such a rivalry, which is why it drew a national TV audience and was usually close to a sell-out.

However, if UT is always at home and the opponents rotate between the decidedly "meh" group of TCU, Baylor, and TTech (who are all likely to be around .500 that late in the season in most years), I think you can expect that a lot of people would rather just stay home and have turkey, and watch the game on TV.

Those are neither marquee names nor big/hated rivals. So, you can expect to see fewer people in ths stands and lower ratings on TV.

Texas v. aTm can compete with the NFL on a national basis. That is a heated, in-state rivalry game that "feels like" Bama v. Auburn, Fla v. FSU, or USC v. Ucla, and thus non-Texans will be able to relate to it.

But Texas v. Baylor just isn't the same and can't compete with the NFL (at least for TV ratings nationally). Most non-Texans will just watch the Cowboys or the Lions, and a lot of UT fans will probabaly stay home and watch it while gnawing on leftover Turkey.
 
2013 TEXAS FOOTBALL SCHEDULE
Saturday, Aug. 31 New Mexico State
Saturday, Sept. 7 at BYU
Saturday, Sept. 14 Mississippi
Saturday, Sept. 21 K-State
Thursday, Oct. 3 or
Saturday, Oct. 5 at Iowa State*
Saturday, Oct. 12 vs. Oklahoma (Dallas)
Saturday, Oct. 26 at TCU
Saturday, Nov. 2 Kansas
Saturday, Nov. 9 at West Virginia
Saturday, Nov. 16 Oklahoma State
Thursday, Nov. 28 Texas Tech
Saturday, Dec. 7 at Baylor
Schedule subject to change.
 
Also TX OU weekend is the 2nd weekend of ACL. ACL advertised it as being the first weekend when tickets went on sale so a bunch of people bought tickets for the second weekend based on that. Epic fail on the part of ACL.
 
I bought ACL tickets for the first weekend expecting to miss Saturday to see the game. We made it back this year in time to catch the headline act Saturday.

Great American Beer Festival is now again the same weekend as TX-OU so I am gonna miss the beer festival in Denver two years in a row.
 
It's as though it's Chris Plonsky doing the scheduling of Formula One and Texas home games . . . .

It's THAT competent.

BTW, don't major event schedulers EVER communicate with their counterparts? With modern communications, it's not like it takes six weeks to get a message across the country.
 
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