TCU football to play home-and-home with Duke beginning in 2028

Go ahead and get your tickets booked for Durham, N.C., TCU fans.

OK, maybe you can wait a little bit.

TCU director of intercollegiate athletics Jeremiah Donati announced a home-and-home football series with Duke beginning Sept. 9, 2028, in Durham, with the Blue Devils coming to Fort Worth on Sept. 8, 2029.

“We’re very excited to add Duke as a future football opponent and continue our strategic scheduling plan,” Donati said in a school released statement. “With the success we’ve achieved under the leadership of Gary Patterson, our football program has become a national brand. With future games on both the east coast and west coast, our scheduling philosophy has been to align ourselves with institutional marketing efforts. Playing in ACC, Big Ten and Pac-12 venues also enhances the student-athlete experience and provides a great travel opportunity for our fans.”

TCU now has a Power 5 nonconference opponent scheduled through 2030.

The games with Duke give TCU a second future home-and-home series with an ACC opponent as the Horned Frogs will face North Carolina in the 2025-26 seasons.

This will continue a stretch of nonconference Power 5 opponents for TCU dating back to the beginning of Big 12 play in 2012 that began with Virginia (2012), LSU (2013), Minnesota (2014-15) and Arkansas (2016-17) and continues with Ohio State (2018), Purdue (2019, 2030), Cal (2020-21), Colorado (2022-23), Stanford (2024, 2027), North Carolina (2025-26) and Duke (2028-29).

Additionally, the Frogs have added home games in 2019 and 2020 versus Arkansas-Pine Bluff and Prairie View A&M, respectively.

This story was originally published December 19, 2017 at 2:31 PM with the headline "TCU football to play home-and-home with Duke beginning in 2028."