Three Additional CU Football Game Times, TV Announced

BOULDER—The Big 12 Conference in conjunction with its television partners ESPN, FOX and TNT Sports Thursday announced TV selections and game times for three additional Colorado Buffaloes football games for the 2025 season.

CU's Week 2 matchup with Delaware on Sept. 6 will kickoff at 1:30 p.m. MT and be televised by FOX. CU will then head to Houston in Week 3 for a Friday (Sept. 12) will kickoff at 5:30 p.m. MT on ESPN. Also announced is CU's Week 5 matchup with BYU on September 27 which will kickoff at 8:15 p.m. MT on ESPN.

Previously announced during the ABC Upfront was CU's season opener against Georgia Tech on Friday, August 29, which will kickoff at 6 p.m. MT on ESPN.

With its first three games now announced, CU will extend its school record streak to 16 straight games on either network TV or the flagship ESPN. In 2024, all 13 games were selected by those networks for the first time in CU history. In the Deion "Coach Prime" Sanders Era, with the four games announced CU now has 25 of 29 games selected by either network TV or the flagship ESPN.

CU has also had two of its three Spring Games on ESPN in the last three years, in 2023 being the only such game televised on the main ESPN channel, and one of just two on either ESPN or ESPN2, and this past season CU was the only spring game not on a conference network or streaming service after being televised by ESPN2. CU also had its NFL Showcase Pro Day televised by NFL Network last month, continuing that unprecedented spotlight on the program.

The Buffaloes and Delaware Blue Hens will meet for the first time in 2025. Added to the non-conference schedule ahead of the 2024 season after the Buffs and Houston became conference foes, Delaware is reclassifying to the FBS in 2025 as a member of Conference USA and has a rich history in the FCS with six national championships.

Originally a non-conference game, CU and Houston will meet for the first time at Big 12 opponents. The two have previously played just one time on the gridiron, the 1971 Bluebonnet Bowl, when No. 7 Colorado beat No. 15 Houston 29-17 to cap at 10-2 season and final AP ranking of No. 3 behind No. 1 Nebraska and No. 2 Oklahoma, still the only time one conference has occupied the top three spots in the final poll.

In a rematch of last year's Alamo Bowl, BYU visits Boulder on Sept. 27 pairing up two of the four teams that tied for first place in the 2024 Big 12 regular season standings. This will be the first match-up between BYU and CU in a conference game since 1947 when the two were in the Mountain States Conference. CU has played the Cougars three times since that 1947 match-up, a regular season game in 1981, the 1988 Freedom Bowl and last year's Alamo Bowl. CU won the first six games in the series and lead by a 8-4-1 record.

From this point forward, it's expected that times and television will be selected 12 days ahead of gameday with the exception of four six-day selections the TV partners can engage contractually throughout the season.

A full detail of how games and TV are selected can be found here.

Three Additional CU Football Game Times, TV Announced

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