TEMPE, Ariz. – Sun Devil Football will be well-traveled and battle-tested in the coming season, as noted with the release of the 2026 season football schedule by the Big 12 Conference in conjunction with Sun Devil Athletics today.
Entering his fourth season as head coach, Kenny Dillingham and the Sun Devils will welcome Morgan State, Baylor, Hawai’i, Kansas State, Colorado and Oklahoma State to Mountain America Stadium while picking up plenty of air mileage with road trips to Texas A&M, Texas Tech, BYU, UCF and Arizona in addition to some international travel as the program takes on Kansas in the Union Jack Classic at the iconic Wembley Stadium in London.
The 2026 season is listed below. Currently, all dates are scheduled to take place on Saturdays. However, select Saturday games in the 2026 season may be adjusted to select Fridays, other special dates, and Black Friday. Those games will be announced in the coming weeks. Exceptions to that are non-conference games that were already announced in Week 1 and publicly announced non-conference road games. Game times will be released at a much later date and are subject to television selections and demands.
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The 2026 Sun Devil campaign will kick off on Sept. 5 with a non-conference tilt against Morgan State at Mountain America Stadium.
ASU will waste no time testing its mettle from there as it hits the road to take on 2025 College Football Playoff competitor Texas A&M at Kyle Field on Sept. 12. From there, the Sun Devils will trek directly to London to square off with Kansas in the Union Jack Classic at Wembley Stadium on Sept. 19 in what will represent the Big 12 conference opener for both programs.
The Sun Devils will enjoy a bye after returning across the pond before hosting their first home game in nearly a month, welcoming Baylor on Oct. 3 in the team’s Big 12 home opener before taking on Hawai’i the following week in a non-conference tilt that was pushed to later in the season as a result of ASU’s inclusion in the Union Jack Classic.
Arizona State then heads on the road to take on another 2025 CFP contender in defending conference champion Texas Tech on Oct. 17.
A home tilt against Kansas State on Oct. 24 will precede another huge road contest as ASU takes on 2025 Big 12 runner-up BYU in Provo on Halloween.
The 2026 slate continues through the entire month of November with home games against Colorado and Oklahoma State on Nov. 7 and 14, alternating with road games at UCF on Nov. 14 and concluding with the annual Territorial Cup matchup against rival Arizona on Nov. 28.
2026 Sun Devil Football schedule (tentative dates)
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Date |
Opponent |
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Sept. 5 |
Morgan State |
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Sept. 12 |
@Texas A&M |
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Sept. 19 |
@Kansas (London) |
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Sept. 26 |
BYE |
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Oct. 3 |
Baylor |
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Oct. 10 |
Hawaii |
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Oct. 17 |
@Texas Tech |
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Oct. 24 |
Kansas State |
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Oct. 31 |
@BYU |
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Nov. 7 |
Colorado |
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Nov. 14 |
@UCF |
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Nov. 21 |
Oklahoma State |
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Nov. 28 |
@Arizona |
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Dec. 4 |
Big 12 Football Championship |
Schedule odds and ends (mostly odds)
- September 5 will mark the latest opening night for Sun Devil Football since the 2015 season (also Sept. 5) for the Sun Devils and tied for the fifth-latest start for a season opener since the 1996 season.
- The Sun Devils are 11-2 in their last two seasons at Mountain America Stadium, highlighted by a sellout of every game in 2025 and in eight consecutive games dating back to 2024 in one of the most electric environments in college football.
- Arizona State’s road schedule features two teams that took part in the College Football Playoff this season (Texas A&M and Texas Tech) and one that was one of the first two teams left out of the CFP (BYU). All three of those games will take place on the road.
- With two road games and a bye following the Morgan State tilt, it will mark the first time since the 1991 season that ASU will play just a single home game before the month of October. The only other occurrences of that anomaly prior to program history (excluding the unique circumstances and incredibly late start to the 2020 season). The 1982 season was the last time it occurred prior to that, before it was a more commonplace practice, pre-1975, when the season typically did not start until the second or third week of September.
- ASU will leave the continental United States to play a football game since taking part in the 2006 Hawai’i Bowl when it heads across the Atlantic to historic Wembley Stadium to take part in the first-of-its-kind FBS contest in the inaugural Union Jack Classic on Sept. 19 in London. It will be just the second time ASU has traveled internationally for a game outside of the 1990 Coca-Cola Classic in Tokyo against Houston.
- Despite taking place overseas, the Union Jack Classic will be a Kansas home game and count toward the Big 12 Conference schedule. As such, it will be ASU’s first time taking part in a conference game before Sept. 20 of a season since squaring off with Colorado in Boulder in Week Three of the 2014 season (Sept. 13). It will be just the fifth time since 2000 that the Sun Devils will be playing a conference game within their first three games of the season.
- All told, Sun Devil Football will post over 17,000 round-trip miles over the course of the coming season. For perspective, ASU logged approximately only 9,000 air miles during the 2025 campaign.
- In fact, ASU will be making two of its longest road trips of all time this season alone. The approximate 5200 miles between Phoenix and London represents the second-longest trip in history, behind only that 1990 Coca-Cola Classic in London. The Sun Devils have played seven games all told in Honolulu, Hawai’i (four regular season games at Hawai’i and three appearances in the Aloha/Hawai’i Bowls - ~2,900 miles). Arizona State took on Miami (FL) in a road tilt in 1997 (~1970 miles), and then ASU’s contest at UCF this season (~1,850 miles) is next on the list.
- ASU will be playing games in Orlando and College Station for the first time in program history. ASU previously played Texas A&M in a neutral-site game in Houston in 2015, and both contests in program history against UCF have taken place in Tempe.
- The Sun Devils will play games in nine consecutive weekends following its Bye Weekend on Sept. 26. That will be the most since ASU closed with 11-straight weekends in the 2009 season. The 2003 season started with 11 consecutive weekends of action prior to a bye week ahead of the Territorial Cup. There were also nine-game stretches in the middle of the 1999 and 2000 seasons.