2024 schedule – Hot off the press

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- 01/30/2024 at 9:03 AM #210601
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  NarfUte
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  BYU at SLC on 11/09 – We finish UCF in the last week.
  
  Two byes, one before ASU and one before BYU
  
  The 2024 Big 12 schedule is here 🙌https://t.co/h30OHkdm7Z pic.twitter.com/JBFSgAEUt4
  
  — Utah Football (@Utah_Football) January 30, 2024
- 01/30/2024 at 9:10 AM #210604
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  AlohaUte
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  WTF, we don’t end with BYU or Colorado? What kind of traveshamockery is this?
  - 01/30/2024 at 9:12 AM #210605
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    This has been a big-12 thing forever – The red river rivalry was never on rivalry weekend. Actually probably smart since we aren’t going to have to compete for eyeballs with OSU-Michigan, Florida FSU, Alabama Auburn etc..
    - 01/30/2024 at 9:25 AM #210611
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      AlohaUte
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      Except that’s because Texas played aTm and OU played OSU on Thanksgiving weekend. We should be playing either BYU or Colorado that weekend. Not effing UCF who none of us care about.
      - 01/30/2024 at 9:48 AM #210615
        
        NarfUte
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        That’s not true – Texas played TTU last year, Baylor the year before, and KSU the year before that on Turkey day weekend. Oklahoma played TCU in 2023, TTU in 2022, and OklSt. in 2021 (Bedlam is only played on rivaly weekend halfish the time)
      - 01/30/2024 at 10:01 AM #210620
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        Central Coast Ute
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        IIRC, Texas never played aTm ever since they went to the SEC.
        
        01/30/2024 at 10:41 AM #210629
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        DataUte
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        Looking forward to it this year, and yes, it’s the last game of the season
    - 01/30/2024 at 10:15 AM #210622
      
      DataUte
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      Texas/OU was played mid-Oct because of the Texas State Fair
  - 01/30/2024 at 11:14 AM #210631
    
    Utegator
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    Hahaha, that was a great commercial.
  - 01/30/2024 at 1:56 PM #210652
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    Yergensen
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    Ending with BYU has the makings of a trap game.
    
    Which team is more likely to have a berth in conference championship locked up pre-game? Which team is more likely to be out of the conference championship running by late October and get a consolation opportunity in the rivalry game? See 2018.
- 01/30/2024 at 9:13 AM #210606
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  SorryWife
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  So weird being in the same conference as tds and not playing during rivalry week. But considering the season we can have, I’d rather not play them the final week of the season.
- 01/30/2024 at 9:19 AM #210607
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  Tony (admin)
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  That works out well in terms of bye weeks.
  - 01/30/2024 at 9:20 AM #210608
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    SorryWife
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    tds also has a bye before the holy war. Going to be a toxic two weeks lmao
- 01/30/2024 at 9:31 AM #210612
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  tanute3
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  OSU and Arizona back to back to start off conference games will be tough. I like the idea that we ought to be healthier for those games earlier in the season (knock on every piece of wood I can find), but I’m a bit concerned with how it seems to take our offensive line several games to get up to speed.
- 01/30/2024 at 9:43 AM #210613
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  Utah5410
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  If CR is CR our offensive line should be fine by then.
- 01/30/2024 at 9:45 AM #210614
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  The Miami Ute
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  Just a quick question…the Baylor game is not considered a conference game, correct?
  - 01/30/2024 at 9:50 AM #210616
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    NarfUte
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    The Baylor game is non-conference next year, correct. KSU and Arizona also play non-conference
    - 01/30/2024 at 9:58 AM #210617
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      The Miami Ute
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      I didn’t get the last part. Did you mean that the KSU and Zona games don’t count towards the conference record?
      - 01/30/2024 at 9:59 AM #210619
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        NarfUte
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        KSU and Arizona play each other, but it is also a non-conference game like Utah-Baylor. Doesn’t matter one bit for the conference standings
        
        01/30/2024 at 1:55 PM #210650
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        2008 National Champ
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        Narf is correct. There were a number of PAC/Big 12 games on the schedule for 2024 and not all of them could be eliminated or incorporated into the conference schedule. The Utah / Houston game became a conference game as did Utah / parochial school. Utah / Baylor stayed as a non-con so that Utah would not have to find two new opponents.
        
        K State / Arizona also anticipated issues finding opponents so that game stayed as a non-con also.
- 01/30/2024 at 9:59 AM #210618
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  EagleMountainUte
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  Tradition and rivals are dead. To continue to pretend like it exists in college football is just silly.
  
  Playing AT UCF to end the season sucks.
  - 01/30/2024 at 10:13 AM #210621
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    MDUte
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    This is the most favorable schedule Utah has ever had in the P5 era by a long shot. It’s CFP or bust without a doubt.
    
    I like that TDS is so p**sed the rivalry game isn’t the last week. I couldn’t care less when we play them. Going to DisneyWorld with my wife and kids that final week of November sounds great to me!
    
    Go Utes!!
    - 01/30/2024 at 10:19 AM #210623
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      DataUte
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      Traveling that week is what puts pause in my plans, even with parents that live in FL half the year, 2 cousins that went to UCF. It went from me traveling to having to consider taking the whole family but it’s also the start of my Senior’s last basketball season so she will refuse to go. So either split family or watching this one on the couch. Was looking forward to @UCF, if just about any other week. And good luck with the crowds at Disney that week. Yikes.
      - 01/30/2024 at 1:14 PM #210644
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        The Miami Ute
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        A little bit off-topic but, actually, T-Giving week is probably one of the best times of the year to go to Disney. And I say that as a guy that for years lived 45 minutes away from WDW. Most people don’t see T-Giving as a time to go to the parks so you’re only dealing with locals, foreigners, and the occasional out of towner. Also, by that time of the year, temperatures cool down significantly in Central Florida to the point that you need a jacket at night (mid to high 50s). I’m planning to go to this game basically because it gets me back to my home state, the kids won’t miss any school, and who doesn’t like spending time with the family at the parks. A possible undefeated Ute team playing it’s last game of the regular season is just a bonus.
        
        01/31/2024 at 7:07 PM #210699
        
        DataUte
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        experts in disney crowds
        
        02/01/2024 at 10:17 AM #210714
        
        The Miami Ute
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        I’m not calling that assessment into question but I base my comments on actually living in Florida and going to the park during the times mentioned. I also spent the last week of last year in LA and was told to expect “massive crowds” at Disneyland and California Adventure. Sure,, there were a lot of people there but nothing like the “downtown Bangkok” feeling that a lot of these websites tell you to expect.
- 01/30/2024 at 10:26 AM #210625
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  Utah
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  Holy S**t. UCF’s schedule is so easy. Ours isn’t that hard, but theirs is a cake walk. They get BYU and us and Colorado at home. No Oklahoma State…and everyone else kinda sucks in the Big 12.
  
  They should be in the conference finals.
- 01/30/2024 at 10:29 AM #210626
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  utefansince79
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  Zona/ASU play the last weekend, but Kansas/K State play mid-season. Just don’t have all the natural pairs like we did in PAC12 with LA, Bay Area, states of Washington, Oregon, Arizona with Utah/Colorado being odd teams out. Rivalry week really won’t mean much now in the coming years. Not just in the BIG12 but in other conferences too. Too many long term rivalries (Oklahoma/OSU for example) being split up.
  - 01/30/2024 at 10:39 AM #210627
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    NarfUte
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    Once NU-OU and Texas-ATM broke up the conference has been all over the place for rivalry games. Cougarboard thinks Harlan and Whitt made sure the game wasn’t on rivalry weekend because we have so much pull over Yormark, which is hilarious
  - 01/30/2024 at 10:40 AM #210628
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    DataUte
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    Probably better for TV to have them spread out, but I don’t like it. But I’ll deal with it because I’m a fan. I’ll just act like an entitled brat for a little bit, stomp my feet, and nothing will change. Ok, I’m just visiting my 2 and 4 year old niece/nephew, so maybe it’s rubbing off.
- 01/30/2024 at 10:44 AM #210630
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  12PAC
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  I’ll say what we’re all thinking- this is depressing. Our new conference mates may hate it, but its true. You can’t replace the near-perfect conference we had with this, and pretend they are somehow equivalent. Just look at the home schedule. Not to mention, as an academic, the University affiliations actually mattered (I know, no one cares).
  
  But I’ll go silver-linings. Our program is in a position to excel with this group. So I’ll get my ass on board and stop complaining.
  - 01/30/2024 at 11:16 AM #210632
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    MDUte
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    Couldn’t agree more. It’s beyond depressing to look at in comparison to what we had with the PAC. The B12 SUCKS A$$!!!!
    Praying this purgatory at the Kiddie Table is somehow short lived!!!
  - 01/30/2024 at 11:50 AM #210637
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    Totally agreed. It was so easy to go to road games in the PAC-12. Everyone was so close.
    
    @Oklahoma State – no thanks.
    @Houston – eh
    @UCF – Ok Disney World is there…oh, you put it the weekend of Thanksgiving when Disney is packed? No thanks.
    
    Bleh.
    
    Our best home games are TCU or BYU…back to the MWC we go…
    - 01/30/2024 at 2:00 PM #210653
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      The Miami Ute
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      Disney is not packed during Thanksgiving, or at least any more so than any other time of the year…trust me, I’ve been there more than once. It’s not at all like the Christmas time period or any time during the summer. Those are the times when Disney is truly well packed.
      - 01/31/2024 at 7:06 PM #210698
        
        DataUte
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        I think you are wrong. They are all bust all the time.
        
        2024 & 2025 Disney World Crowd Calendar (best times to go)
        
        02/01/2024 at 10:24 AM #210715
        
        The Miami Ute
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        Hmmm, all I can tell you is that I’ve been to Disney World multiple times in my life during the T-Giving period…the last time a couple of years ago. I would ask where are all of these massive crowds going to come from since in Florida and nearby locations, schoolkids only get Thanksgiving and Friday off, not the whole T-Giving week like some schools here in Utah.
- 01/30/2024 at 11:50 AM #210636
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  UTE98
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  Am I seeing this right? Nine conference games, PLUS Baylor as a non-conference?
  
  What has happened? Certainly not as tough as nine Pac-12 conference games, but really nine?
  - 01/30/2024 at 12:48 PM #210639
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    jelmstreet
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    Shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone at all on this Hub that Baylor is being scheduled as a Conference game. It was announced months ago when Big-12 scheduling started that it was going to be that way due to the difficulties of having to try to reschedule both Baylor AND BYU from non-conference to conference. You can’t just plug and play anybody at any time when such a drastic of a change as a conference realignment occurs.
- 01/30/2024 at 12:40 PM #210638
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  Orlando the last weekend of November sounds nice to me. 🤷‍♂️
  - 01/30/2024 at 12:53 PM #210642
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    Yeah, with that travel distance it being the first or last game of the season is ideal, IMO.
    
    And it being November is a plus on the heat index/weather
    - 01/30/2024 at 1:35 PM #210646
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      Distantute
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      Ill be at the ucf game. I like schedule. If cam is healthy have an outstanding shot at the 12 team playoff. Glorious!
- 01/30/2024 at 4:18 PM #210659
  
  Charlie
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  I really could not care less when the game with the Y is. My first thoughts were 5 on the road and 4 at home, the bye weeks, everyone has two this year and ours are spaced well, the games I am concerned with – Az, Ok State, and TCU – are one home, two on the road. As for Big 12 rival, I want to see who becomes the greatest challenge to us getting to the CCG. I resist making the game with the Y anything more than another Big 12 game. Potential road games, UCF with grand kids or TCU and the Stockyard with adults. It is what it is for the next few years.
  - 01/31/2024 at 1:18 PM #210685
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    MDUte
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    Well this is just a shame for TSPP, especially given their claims of being the $70M “money shot” addition of the B12…
    
    Owie 😳 pic.twitter.com/qzvgSrpAOi
    
    — WrigleyvilleUte (@jhallito) January 31, 2024
    - 01/31/2024 at 1:43 PM #210688
      
      Tony (admin)
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      I changed your “X” link to a twitter link. X links won’t embed.
      - 01/31/2024 at 3:07 PM #210689
        
        MDUte
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        Thanks Tony. Is there a way to embed “X” links? I’m assuming we shouldn’t use the “Twitter Bird” button anymore?
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