Big 12 Announces Oklahoma-BYU Kickoff Time

The Sooners play their final Saturday game of the season in Provo next week.

John E. Hoover|

Big 12 Announces Oklahoma-BYU Kickoff Time

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NORMAN — The schedule is set.

Oklahoma has now learned its final kickoff time of the 2023 college football season, and there's very little surprise.

OU heads to Big 12 Conference newcomer BYU next Saturday, but the Sooners didn't get their marching orders for kickoff until a couple hours after dispatching West Virginia on Saturday night.

The Big 12 announced just before midnight Saturday that the Sooners and Cougars will kick off at 11 a.m. CT next week at LaVell Edwards Stadium in Provo, UT.

Kick time and TV coverage announced for next Saturday’s game at BYU.

⏰ 11am CT
📺 ABC or ESPN
📍 Provo, Utah #OUDNA pic.twitter.com/53Vz5M6ZRA
— Oklahoma Football (@OU_Football) November 12, 2023

The 11 a.m. start is no surprise for OU. Including the season-finale against TCU on Black Friday, Nov. 24, in Norman, the BYU marks the Sooners' seventh game of the season to start at 11 a.m.

But for BYU, it might not be ideal. The Cougars are sending off a massive senior class, and it's the Big 12 Homecoming Weekend as they welcome BYU into the conference.

The game will be carried on television by either ABC or ESPN.

Published Nov 12, 2023

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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