BUFFALO BITS 2004 SCHEDULE - Collegefootballdatadvds.com

2004 BIG 12 COMPOSITE SCHEDULE
September 2 Texas A & M at Utah (ESPN) 5:30 p.m.
September 4 Colorado State at Colorado (FSN) 6:00 p.m.
Bowling Green at Oklahoma (ABC) 10:00 a.m.
Northern Iowa at Iowa State 12:00 p.m.
Oklahoma State at UCLA (ABC) 1:30 p.m.
Arkansas State at Missouri 5:00 p.m.
Baylor at Alabama-Birmingham 5:00 p.m.
Tulsa at Kansas 5:00 p.m.
Western Illinois at Nebraska 5:00 p.m.
Texas Tech at SMU 6:00 p.m.
North Texas at Texas TBA
Western Kentucky at Kansas State TBA
September 9 Missouri at Troy State (ESPN2) 5:00 p.m.
September 11 Colorado vs. Washington State at
Seattle (ABC) 1:30 p.m.
Southern Mississippi at Nebraska (ABC) 10:00 a.m.
Iowa State at Iowa 10:05 a.m.
TCU at Texas Tech (FSN) 10:30 a.m.
Wyoming at Texas A & M (FSN) 1:30 p.m.
Houston at Oklahoma (TBS) 5:00 p.m.
Toledo at Kansas 5:00 p.m.
Tulsa at Oklahoma State 5:00 p.m.
Texas at Arkansas (ESPN) 6:45 p.m.
Texas State at Baylor TBA
Fresno State at Kansas State TBA
September 18 North Texas at Colorado TBA
Nebraska at Pittsburgh (ABC) 10:00 a.m.
TCU at Texas Tech (FSN) 10:30 a.m.
Ball State at Missouri 12:00 p.m.
Kansas at Northwestern 12:00 p.m.
Oregon at Oklahoma (ABC) 1:30 p.m.
Clemson at Texas A& M (TBS) 5:00 p.m.
SMU at Oklahoma State 5:00 p.m.
Louisiana-Lafayette at Kansas State TBA
Northern Illinois at Iowa State TBA
September 25 *Texas Tech at Kansas TBA
North Texas at Baylor TBA
Rice at Texas TBA
October 2 *Colorado at Missouri TBA
*Baylor at Texas TBA
*Iowa State at Oklahoma State TBA
*Kansas at Nebraska TBA
*Kansas State at Texas A & M TBA
*Texas Tech at Oklahoma TBA
COLORADO’S CONFERENCE HISTORY
The Big 12 Conference is technically the sixth conference in
which the University of Colorado has been a member.
There were no organized leagues in the Rocky Mountain region
when CU started playing football in 1890. In 1893, Colorado was a
charter member of the Colorado Intercollegiate Athletic Association
(CIAA; also known as the Colorado Football Association), joined by
Denver, Colorado College, Colorado Mines and Colorado A & M. CU
remained a member through 1908 (except 1905, when it withdrew
from the state conference prior to the season).
In 1909, a new alignment called the Colorado Faculty Athletic
Conference came into existence, with CU, CC, A & M and Mines the
charter members. One year later in 1910, the name was changed to
the Rocky Mountain Faculty Athletic Conference, as the league
expanded geographically to include Utah and Denver, and later, Utah
State (1914), Montana State (1917), Brigham Young (1918), Wyoming
(1921), and Colorado Teachers College (now Northern Colorado)
and Western State (1924). This new league, built on a foundation of
faculty control, lasted through the 1936-37 school year.
On Dec. 4, 1937, after a serious gap that had developed between
the elite of the RMAC and the smaller schools, seven schools split to
455
October 9 *Oklahoma State at Colorado TBA
*Oklahoma vs. Texas @ Dallas (ABC) 10:00 a.m.
*Nebraska at Texas Tech 1:30 p.m.
*Kansas State at Kansas TBA
*Missouri at Baylor TBA
*Texas A & M Iowa State TBA
October 16 *Iowa State at Colorado TBA
*Baylor at Nebraska TBA
*Missouri at Texas TBA
*Oklahoma at Kansas State TBA
*Texas A & M at Oklahoma State TBA
October 23 *Colorado at Texas A & M TBA
*Iowa State at Baylor TBA
*Kansas at Oklahoma TBA
*Nebraska at Kansas State TBA
*Oklahoma State at Missouri TBA
*Texas at Texas Tech TBA
October 30 *Texas at Colorado TBA
*Kansas at Iowa State TBA
*Missouri at Nebraska TBA
*Oklahoma at Oklahoma State TBA
*Texas A & M at Baylor TBA
*Texas Tech at Kansas State TBA
November 6 *Colorado at Kansas TBA
*Baylor at Texas Tech TBA
*Kansas State at Missouri TBA
*Nebraska at Iowa State TBA
*Oklahoma at Texas A & M TBA
*Oklahoma State at Texas TBA
November 13 *Kansas State at Colorado TBA
*Baylor at Oklahoma State TBA
*Nebraska at Oklahoma TBA
*Texas at Kansas TBA
*Texas Tech at Texas A & M TBA
November 20 *Iowa State at Kansas State TBA
*Kansas at Missouri TBA
*Oklahoma at Baylor TBA
November 26 *Colorado at Nebraska (ABC) 10:00 a.m.
*Texas A & M at Texas (ABC) 1:30 p.m.
November 27 *Missouri at Iowa State TBA
*Oklahoma State at Texas Tech TBA
December 4 Big 12 Championship Game
@ Kansas City, Mo. (ABC) 6:00 p.m.
*—denotes Big 12 Conference game; all times listed are mountain. Television selections Sept. 25 and beyond will be made 12 days in advance by the Big 12
television partners (ABC, Fox Sports Network, TBS). Prime-time broadcasts on the Fox Sports regional networks are usually national, with most if not all of its 13
networks cleared for the broadcast; syndicated broadcasts in the morning are usually confined to solely the Big 12 region. TBS shares Saturday night prime time
broadcasts with Fox Sports Network and will air games on Sept. 9-16, Oct. 2-9-23 and Nov. 6; FSN dates are Sept. 25 (two), Oct. 16-30 and Nov. 13-27. ABC also can
opt to use 10 a.m. MT windows as an addition to/or replacing its usual 1:30 p.m. slot on the following dates: Oct. 9-16-30 and Nov. 13.
form the Mountain States Conference. This new league consisted of
CU, DU, A & M, Wyoming, Utah, Utah State and BYU. The remaining
five schools continued on as the RMAC, which today remains one of
the oldest conferences in the nation.
A decade later, CU athletics would change forever, as the
Buffaloes were accepted into the Missouri Valley Intercollegiate
Athletic Association (also known as the Big Six) on Dec. 1, 1947.
Colorado started competition in this league in the 1948-49 school
year, thus changing the group’s name to the Big Seven. Other
schools in the league were Iowa State, Kansas, Kansas State,
Missouri, Nebraska and Oklahoma. When Oklahoma State rejoined
the group after a three decade absence in 1958, the conference
became known as the Big Eight.
On Feb. 25, 1994, it was announced that Baylor, Texas, Texas A&M
and Texas Tech accepted invitations to join all Big Eight schools to
form a new super-conference known as the Big 12. The four former
Southwest Conference schools joined the eight Big Eight schools in
starting the new league on July 1, 1996; it was considered a new conference
and not a merger.