College football teams traditionally have used September nonconference games to establish their identities, work out kinks and set themselves up for the big games in October and November.
But mid-September matchups like Texas-Texas Tech and Kansas State-Iowa State this weekend probably won’t be unusual once the Big 12 shrinks to 10 teams and goes to a round-robin schedule in the next year or two.
Each team will play nine conference games after Nebraska leaves for the Big Ten and Colorado for the Pac-10. And as in the Southeastern Conference, where the first league games were played last week, the Big 12’s next television contract could ask for appealing conference matchups earlier in the season.
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