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Big 12 Conference Teases 2023 Schedule Release

TCU's full schedule apparently slipped out prematurely and, if accurate, would include an interesting matchup with Oklahoma.

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After months of consternation and patiently waiting, Big 12 fans will have their schedule.

The league announced Monday night that it will reveal the full 2023 schedule on Tuesday at 1 p.m.

The league welcomes four new members next season in BYU, Cincinnati, UCF and Houston, growing from 10 members to 14, and the scheduling matrix for adding four teams to a 10-team, nine-game round-robin football format has been complex.

Complicating the matter even further, flagship schools Oklahoma and Texas are on their way out — they're joining the SEC in 2025, although there have been multiple indicators they could leave sooner than that. 

New commissioner Brett Yormark said in October the newcomers would play every member in their first two years, but if OU and Texas leave early, that won't be possible. 

Yormark also said at Big 12 basketball media days that the schedule release was anticipated in late November or early December. 

TCU may have inadvertently posted the Horned Frogs' 2023 schedule on Monday night. 

FBSchedules.com tweeted a screenshot of the TCU schedule from the school's official athletics website. The schedule was quickly taken down. No other Big 12 schools have their full 2023 schedules posted yet.

If the TCU schedule is correct, the defending national runner-up will play at Oklahoma on Nov. 24 — the Friday after Thanksgiving. 

According to the TCU schedule that was taken down, the Horned Frogs will play at Houston in September and host BYU in October.

In any case, the league will finally make it official Tuesday afternoon.

Brandon Marcello of 247 Sports, citing unnamed sources, reported Monday night that OU will host UCF.

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John E. Hoover
JOHN E. HOOVER

John is an award-winning journalist whose work spans five decades in Oklahoma, with multiple state, regional and national awards as a sportswriter at various newspapers. During his newspaper career, John covered the Dallas Cowboys, the Kansas City Chiefs, the Oklahoma Sooners, the Oklahoma State Cowboys, the Arkansas Razorbacks and much more. In 2016, John changed careers, migrating into radio and launching a YouTube channel, and has built a successful independent media company, DanCam Media. From there, John has written under the banners of Sporting News, Sports Illustrated, Fan Nation and a handful of local and national magazines while hosting daily sports talk radio shows in Oklahoma City, Tulsa and statewide. John has also spoken on Capitol Hill in Oklahoma City in a successful effort to put more certified athletic trainers in Oklahoma public high schools. Among the dozens of awards he has won, John most cherishes his national "Beat Writer of the Year" from the Associated Press Sports Editors, Oklahoma's "Best Sports Column" from the Society of Professional Journalists, and Two "Excellence in Sports Medicine Reporting" Awards from the National Athletic Trainers Association. John holds a bachelor's degree in Mass Communications from East Central University in Ada, OK. Born and raised in North Pole, Alaska, John played football and wrote for the school paper at Ada High School in Ada, OK. He enjoys books, movies and travel, and lives in Broken Arrow, OK, with his wife and two kids.

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