The Big 12 Conference will open its 2025 season with a Week 0 Farmageddon rivalry game between Iowa State and Kansas State on international soil in Dublin, Ireland.

The conference unveiled its football schedule Tuesday, featuring a handful of notable non-conference matchups, including Auburn at Baylor (Aug. 30), Iowa at Iowa State (Sept. 6), Army at Kansas State (Sept. 6), Oklahoma State at Oregon (Sept. 6), Pitt at West Virginia (Sept. 13) and Cincinnati versus Nebraska (Aug. 28) at Arrowhead Stadium, the home of the NFL’s Kansas City Chiefs.

TCU opens the season at North Carolina under new coach Bill Belichick on Sept. 1, and UCF hosts the Tar Heels on Sept. 20.

The fierce Kansas-Missouri rivalry, once the second-most played Division I series behind Minnesota-Wisconsin, will reignite for the first time since 2011 in Columbia, Mo. It’s the 121st edition of the Border War, as it was previously known. Arizona will also host Kansas State in a Wildcats versus Wildcats non-conference matchup on Sept. 13 that was scheduled before Arizona joined the conference.

Reigning conference champion Arizona State, coming off an overtime loss to Texas in the College Football Playoff, lost star running back Cam Skattebo to the NFL but returns quarterback Sam Leavitt and coach Kenny Dillingham from last year’s 11-win team. The Sun Devils will travel to Mississippi State in Week 2 and face a tough stretch of conference play in the back half of the schedule, including a Big 12 title rematch at Iowa State (Nov. 1), a trip to Colorado (Nov. 22) and a Duel in the Desert rivalry against Arizona to wrap up the regular season.

Kansas State will bookend the Big 12 regular season with two of the league’s most anticipated games that likely will impact the title race. The Wildcats open the season in Dublin on Aug. 23 against Iowa State in the 109th edition of Farmageddon. Officially, it’s a Kansas State home game, with the teams hoping to sell a combined 30,000 tickets.

“I don’t know that I’ve talked to anybody who isn’t excited about going over there,” Kansas State athletic director Gene Taylor told The Athletic. “I thought I was going to get crucified by taking a home game like Iowa State off our schedule and going to six games as opposed to seven, and I really haven’t been.”

Kansas State concludes the season on Thanksgiving weekend with a home game against Colorado. The Wildcats won last year 31-28 in Boulder, which ultimately kept the Buffaloes from qualifying for the Big 12 championship game. The matchup will be the 68th meeting between the former Big Eight foes, but Colorado’s first trip to Manhattan since 2009. K-State also has the Sunflower Showdown at Kansas (Oct. 25) and a trip to Utah on Nov. 22.

Who else does Colorado play?

Deion Sanders’ Colorado squad finished the 2024 regular season in a four-way tie for first place atop the Big 12 standings and will face the other three teams at Folsom Field in 2025, including the aforementioned defending champs.

In an Alamo Bowl rematch from December, which BYU won 36-14, the Buffaloes and Cougars collide on Sept. 27. Colorado entertains Iowa State on Oct. 11, which is the teams’ first meeting since 2010. Colorado played in the Pac-12 from 2011 through 2023 before returning to the Big 12.

Notably, Colorado doesn’t face in-state foe Colorado State but instead reignites its series with neighboring Wyoming. The Buffaloes also travel to former Pac-12 foe Utah on Oct. 25.

Other notable matchups

Big 12 runner-up Iowa State faces the other teams tied atop the Big 12 standings in succession. After traveling to Colorado, the Cyclones will host BYU on Oct. 25 before clashing with Arizona State. Iowa State hosts Kansas on Nov. 22 in the teams’ 105th meeting and finishes the season at Oklahoma State.

Elsewhere, the 121st edition of Baylor-TCU will be on Oct. 18 in Fort Worth, Texas, will be played on the same day BYU hosts the 103rd Holy War against in-state rival Utah. But for the first time in 70 years, Baylor and Texas Tech won’t compete against one another, a casualty of the Big 12’s 16-team scheduling matrix that features only four annually protected rivalries.

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