LUBBOCK, Texas – Texas Tech will welcome New Mexico back to Jones AT&T Stadium early in the 2027 football season as part of a one-game scheduling agreement the two schools announced Tuesday.

The Lobos, coming off a 9-4 season a year ago, will replace North Texas on Texas Tech's 2027 non-conference slate with New Mexico traveling to Lubbock on Sept. 18, 2027. Texas Tech notified North Texas officials in April of its plans to cancel a previously scheduled 2027 road game in Denton to maintain a minimum of six home games.

It will be the 46th all-time meeting between the Red Raiders and Lobos in a series that will be renewed for the first time since 2012. Texas Tech is 37-6-2 versus New Mexico, having won 14 of the past 15 meetings. The series dates back to 1931 where the Red Raiders delivered a 32-6 victory in Lubbock in the first-ever meeting between the two former Border Conference members.

The two schools previously met annually as non-conference opponents from 1971-86 during Texas Tech's tenure in the Southwest Conference and then nine times since the Red Raiders joined the Big 12 Conference in 1996. The Red Raiders are 23-2 all-time at home against the Lobos, who have lost nine-straight road trips in Lubbock, including a 49-14 rout in the last meeting between the two schools early in the 2012 season.

New Mexico fills one of two open dates on Texas Tech's 2027 non-conference schedule as the Red Raiders are actively searching for a power conference opponent for the other available date.