Friday afternoon, the Big 12 Conference announced that West Virginia’s regular season finale on Friday, November 27th, at Utah will be a national TV game. It will broadcast on FOX and begin at 8 or 9 p.m. ET. A time will be finalized at a later date.
In the news release, it states that kickoff times and TV selections for West Virginia’s first three games of the 2026 season — 9/5 vs. Coastal Carolina, 9/12 vs. UT Martin, and 9/19 vs. Virginia (Charlotte, N.C.) — will be revealed sometime later this month.
A brief look at this year’s matchup
Utah is going through a transition period as longtime head coach Kyle Whittingham stepped away and eventually became the new head coach at Michigan. There won’t be much “new” for the Utes, however, as new head coach Morgan Scalley has been on staff in Salt Lake City since 2007. This was a move that was expected to take place at some point, as he was named the head coach-in-waiting back in June of 2024.
Offensively, the Utes lost some major pieces along the offensive line, with a pair of offensive tackles going to the NFL — Spencer Fano picked 9th overall by the Cleveland Browns and Caleb Lomu going 28th overall to the New England Patriots…