Texas Tech University Athletics
Oklahoma, Baylor Game Dates Changed
February 26, 2008 | Football
Feb. 26, 2008
LUBBOCK, Texas - Texas Tech extended its 2008 regular season by a week after making alterations to its schedule for the upcoming football season, the athletics department announced Monday. To accommodate a request made by the Big 12 Conference for its television package, the Red Raiders will face Oklahoma and Baylor a week later than the previously scheduled dates.
Only the dates change; the game locations remain the same. The Red Raiders will face Oklahoma on Nov. 22 in Norman, Okla., while the game against Baylor, originally scheduled for that date, will move back a week to Nov. 29 in Lubbock. With the move, Texas Tech gains an open date Nov. 15 and plays after Thanksgiving for the first time since facing Oklahoma State in Lubbock in 2004.
Texas Tech already has an open date Sept. 27, and will entertain two free weekends for the first time since the 2004 season. The Red Raiders host seven home games for the second time in the last four seasons and the third time since 2000, when Tech played host eight times at Jones AT&T Stadium.
The Red Raiders begin spring workouts March 26 and host the annual Red-Black Game on April 19.
2008 SCHEDULE Aug. 30 Eastern Washington Sept. 6 at Nevada Sept. 13 SMU Sept. 20 Massachusetts Sept. 27 Open Oct. 4 at Kansas State Oct. 11 Nebraska Oct. 18 at Texas A&M Oct. 25 at Kansas Nov. 1 Texas Nov. 8 Oklahoma State Nov. 15 Open Nov. 22 at Oklahoma Nov. 29 Baylor
