Night owl BYU football fans can rejoice, your favorite football team will be playing late yet again this season.

Well, at least in three of the four game times announced on Thursday at the Big 12 Conference Spring Business meetings.

The Cougars will kick off games against both Stanford (September 6)  and at Colorado (Sept. 27) at 8:15 p.m. MDT with an 8:30 p.m. start slated when BYU hosts West Virginia on October 3. BYU’s opening game of the season versus Portland State (August 30) will begin at 6 p.m. and will be televised on ESPN+. ESPN will broadcast the other three announced games.

BYU’s matchup at Colorado will be the Big-12 Conference opener for BYU and will be a rematch of last year’s Alamo Bowl which saw the Cougars defeat the Buffaloes 36-14. Colorado will again be coached by Deion Sanders, who is entering his third year coaching at Boulder, but will be without last year’s Heisman Trophy Winner Travis Hunter and star quarterback Shedeur Sanders, both of whom entered the NFL draft after last season.

The Cougar’s game against West Virginia will take place on a Friday night with the home team hoping to overturn their 0-2 all-time record against the visiting Mountaineers. The Cougars took a tough 37-7 loss facing West Virginia is Morgantown during the 2023 season.

BYU has played the Cardinal just three times in program history, having lost twice against a single win which came with a 35-26 victory in Palo Alto in 2022. This year’s game will mark the first time the Cougars have hosted Stanford since 2004 when they took a 37-10 loss.

The 2025 season marks the beginning of the Big 12’s new media package that continues its partnerships with ESPN and FOX while adding TNT Sports to its football broadcasting portfolio. TNT Sports will now televise an exclusive slate of Big 12 football games starting this fall following an agreement between Warner Bros. Discovery and ESPN last November.

Future games will be announced on a 12-day or 6-day notice via Big12Sports.com and the conference’s digital media platforms. The Cougars have 12 games scheduled for the 2025 season, including nine Big 12 Conference matchups with the Big 12 Conference championship scheduled to take place on December 6 at AT&T Stadium in Dallas.

BYU’s 2025 football schedule:

August 30: Portland State, 6 p.m. MDT, ESPN+

September 6: at Stanford, 8:15 p.m. MDT, ESPN

September 20: at East Carolina, TBD

September 27: at Colorado, 8:15 p.m. MDT, ESPN

October 3: West Virginia, 8:30 p.m. MDT, ESPN

October 11: at Arizona, TBD

October 18: Utah, TBD

October 25: at Iowa State, TBD

November 8: at Texas Tech, TBD

November 15: TCU, TBD

November 22: at Cincinnati, TBD

November 29: UCF