On Wednesday evening, the SEC released the 2025 football schedule for the Texas Longhorns, an affair with less drama than the debut season for head coach Steve Sarkisian’s program — the conference opponents remain the same as the road opponents become the home opponents next year, and vice versa.
The reveal of the non-conference slate does include a previously-unknown opponent with Texas hosting Sam Houston in the second all-time meeting between the two schools. That matchup comes on Sept. 27 following the season opener at Ohio State and home games against San Jose State and UTEP.
The first game of the home-and-home series against the Buckeyes is the fourth game between the two historic programs and the first in Columbus since the Longhorns won 25-22 in 2005. The following year, Ohio State traveled to Austin and won the rematch, 24-7.
Texas gets a bye week between the UTEP and Sam Houston games, then opens conference play away from the friendly confines of Darrell K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium, traveling to Gainesville to play Florida, heading up I-35 to the Cotton Bowl to face Oklahoma, and then facing Kentucky in Lexington and Mississippi State in Starkville.
The month of November features three home games for Texas in addition to the second bye week after playing host to Vanderbilt. The Longhorns play the Bulldogs in Athens after the bye week, then host the Razorbacks and Aggies in consecutive rivalry games to close the regular season. Texas hasn’t faced Arkansas in Austin as conference opponents since 1990, 20 years before the last conference home game against Texas A&M.
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