It appears that London could become the latest overseas destination for college football, following reports that Arizona State and Kansas are in discussions to play at Wembley Stadium in 2026.

The game, revealed by On3’s Brett McMurphy, would be a Week 3 match-up for the two Big 12 powers scheduled for 19th September, and the first FBS fixture held in mainland Britain. As noted by McMurphy, London has hosted dozens of NFL games, and this will be only the second college football game after 1988’s FCS meeting between Richmond and Boston, which played out before 2,500 fans at Crystal Palace National Sports Centre.

The game between the Sun Devils and Jayhawks, when confirmed, would be the third international college game of 2026, following the Aer Lingus College Classic matchup featuring TCU and North Carolina, and a clash in Frankfurt between Michigan and Western Michigan, both scheduled for 29th August.

The Wembley game, which will supposedly be monikered ‘The Union Jack Classic’, will mark the second in-conference international matchup for the Big 12, adding further weight to commissioner Brett Yormark’s comments at the conference’s media days — repeated in a press conference ahead of this year’s game in Dublin — that he intends for the Big 12 to ‘be a global conference’.

“Playing in Ireland (this year) is the first step, an impetus for future global expansion — and I’m all in on it.” Yormark shared immediately before this year’s Dublin between Kansas State and Iowa State, adding that several countries had already expressed interest in hosting a game.

The fixture was originally scheduled as a Kansas home game and the in-conference opener for both. McMurphy noted that the Jayhawks see the shift to playing overseas as a positive step ‘because of the reduced capacity at Booth Memorial Stadium due to Phase 2 of construction’, and points out that they will still have six home games on their schedule in addition to the London game.

CBS’s Will Backus reported that this could be the first in a series of Big 12 matchups as ‘The Post and Courier notes that the Big 12 could be featured in the next two Union Jack Classics beyond 2026’.

If this is the case, it not only bodes well for British fans of college football, but confirms that the Big 12 really is trying to get ahead of its rivals in establishing itself as a ‘global conference’.