Fans of the Texas football team will need to slightly adjust their calendars this fall.
Texas has changed the date for its non-conference game during the 2025 football season against Sam Houston to Sept. 20. The Longhorns and Bearkats were originally scheduled to play on Sept. 27.
The change in the schedule was announced on Tuesday by UT athletic director Chris Del Conte in his “Forty Acres Insider” newsletter.
Moving the Sam Houston game up a week gives Texas a bye before it begins conference play this upcoming season. After closing out a non-conference schedule that includes a trip to Ohio State (Aug. 30) and home games against San Jose State (Sept. 6), UTEP (Sept. 13) and Sam Houston, the Longhorns will travel to Florida for their SEC opener on Oct. 4.
Texas Longhorns head coach Steve Sarkisian and Chris Del Conte celebrate a win over Clemson Tigers 38-24 in the NCAA College Football Playoffs first round game at Darrell K Royal Texas Memorial Stadium, Austin, Texas, Saturday, Dec. 21, 2024.
Texas coach Steve Sarkisian prefers to play all of his non-conference games before league play begins. Texas and Mississippi State are the only SEC teams that will open the 2025 season with four non-conference games.
“I know there’s some rationale to why you have that non-conference game late in the year, but I’ve lived that life where that non-conference late in the year sometimes is like pulling teeth with your players in November, and the game’s always closer than everybody wants it to be, and everybody’s kind of kicking the tires a little bit because it didn’t go the way they wanted,” Sarkisian said this past September. “I’m more for the mindset of play these four early, you can play a lot of players, you can get a lot of development done with a lot of your newcomers on your roster to get them ready for what I would call…
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Author : Austin American-Statesman
Publish date : 2025-02-12 11:47:00
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