Texas reportedly looking to cut home-and-home with Big 12 program
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Texas has asked to not have to play out its scheduled home-and-home series with Arizona State that was supposed to start in 2032, according to a report by SunDevilSource on Tuesday afternoon.
The Longhorns and Sun Devils were set to play out the home-and-home set in 2032 and 2033. Should Texas‘s request to not play the series be granted, the games wouldn’t be rescheduled, according to Tuesday’s report.
Arizona State has a 2-year series scheduled with old Pac-12 rival Stanford that will be played in 2031 and 2032. Stanford now resides in the ACC, so those matchups will now feature a Big 12 program going up against an ACC program.
As for the Texas-Arizona State home-and-home set that is now reportedly on the chopping block, the SEC‘s switch to playing 9 conference games per season led the Longhorns to this request, according to the SunDevilSource report.
Arizona State also has future home-and-home series scheduled with SEC programs Florida and LSU that could be in jeopardy for that same reason.
Time will tell if those SEC schools choose to try to get out of their series with Arizona State, as Texas reportedly has done. Right now, those home-and-home series are still on, but that’s something worth watching in the aftermath of Texas’s reported request.
Cory Nightingale, a former sportswriter and sports editor at the Miami Herald and Palm Beach Post, is a South Florida-based freelance writer who covers Alabama for SaturdayDownSouth.com.
