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3 minutes ago, Hank_Hill said:

People were saying next years schedule is notably harder…what am I missing?

It all kind of hangs on the extent to which Florida, LSU and Tennessee “improve”

Posted
3 minutes ago, Hank_Hill said:

People were saying next years schedule is notably harder…what am I missing?

 Before  some of the coaching changes when the opponents and locations were reveled a few months ago, it was the chatter it might be harder.   Everyone expected  LSU and Florida to be much better and  we know how that turned out.   Now we face those two with new coaches along with Ole Miss  and  Arky.       Tennessee is going to be on the clock next fall as far as their coaching situation.   Mizzou and MSU… Who knows?   We really don’t have conference game that would be an even swap for UGA.   LSU might have been this game if they had lived up to expectations this season, but we will have plenty of time to see if Lane can flip the switch in Baton Rouge.  I am not so sure, but playing in that environment enough is comparable to UGA, so hopefully they do end up underperforming as the season progresses.   

Our non conference schedule is better than this years.   Texas State and UTSA will be better matchups than San Jose, Sam Houston, and UTEP.   

Upside we play Ohio State after shaking some of the rust off against Texas State which we didn’t have the benefit of this season.   

Hopefully the first three home games are night games too.  

Posted
43 minutes ago, Nueces River Rat said:

This is true to some extent.   UTSA and Texas State are not The Citadel or Campbell.    

Yep

G6 > FCS and UT will be both team's Super Bowl

Posted
32 minutes ago, Hank_Hill said:

People were saying next years schedule is notably harder…what am I missing?

a) it is 9 games now, but everyone has 9 games.  I think it is we are trading UK/Vandy/Geo for(I realize this can be looked at differently) Miss/LSU/Mizz and Tenn for our 9th game.   we didn't get SCAR, UK, Auburn for our 9th game.  Bama would have been the worst draw for the 9th game.

will be interesting how Vandy does without Pavia and how Miss and LSU look given the Kiffin move.

I don't think it is loads different but it is a bit harder if you look at the road games.

Posted
45 minutes ago, LonghornSean said:

Can’t wait to go to Knoxville. Buddy and I just booked our flights and room.

Knoxville and Baton Rouge rooms booked 

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Posted
12 minutes ago, DFW Horn said:

Yep

G6 > FCS and UT will be both team's Super Bowl

If we got SOS credit for Tx ST and UTSA vs Citadel/Campbell it would be nice but I don't think you do. until they punish SOS and SOR for FCS, it is basically getting a bye.  TXST and UTSA I would not consider a bye.  It is a 98% win but the game won't be over in the 1st quarter like those others.

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Posted (edited)
55 minutes ago, Hank_Hill said:

People were saying next years schedule is notably harder…what am I missing?

Traveling to Tennessee is a brutally tough start to the SEC schedule. Meanwhile A&M gets a soft Kentucky team at home, and continues to avoid Georgia + Ole Miss. They'll be 7-0 heading into Bryant-Denny Stadium to face Alabama.

There are some positives, at least. No Georgia or Alabama (Sark gets to avoid Smart and DeBoer, two of his worst matchups). Florida, LSU, Ole Miss, and Arky will all be breaking in new coaches. We can't waste next year like we did this year. Starting out with Ohio State and Tennessee is really rough, we can't go 0-2 against them like we did with Ohio State and Florida this year and dig ourselves in a deep hole.

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Posted
1 hour ago, LonghornSean said:

Can’t wait to go to Knoxville. Buddy and I just booked our flights and room.

where are you booking flights?  AA and SW both won't let book out that far.

Posted
1 hour ago, satyanash said:

There are some positives, at least. No Georgia or Alabama (Sark gets to avoid Smart and DeBoer, two of his worst matchups). Florida, LSU, Ole Miss, and Arky will all be breaking in new coaches. We can't waste next year like we did this year.

Oh, but we will.  It's what Soft Ass Sark does.

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Posted
2 hours ago, dcar00 said:

 


aggy avoiding Georgia again is just funny.

We knew this back in late September.

Georgia finally comes to college station in 2027, 15 years after A&M joined the conference.

 

Posted (edited)

All in all, can’t really find too much to complain about. Yeah another home game in November when it’s cooler would be nice, but not leaving the state for ~40 days from late Sept to early Nov should have its perks.

2nd true road game not happening until Nov 7 has to be close to a record. And I like that the finishing stretch ramps up in road intensity instead of getting thrown in straight in the fire after the 3 weeks at home (at Mizzou, at LSU, at A&M)

 

would like the bye to be a little later in the season, but what are you going to do. 
 

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Posted (edited)
3 hours ago, Js1 said:

God forbid they even things out 

Seriously. Pretty much the same teams. Mostly at home for long stretches or on the road for long stretches. No in between. WTF?

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Posted
15 minutes ago, UTexasFight said:

All in all, can’t really find too much to complain about. Yeah another home game in November when it’s cooler would be nice, but not leaving the state for ~40 days from late Sept to early Nov should have its perks.

2nd true road game not happening until Nov 7 has to be close to a record. And I like that the finishing stretch ramps up in road intensity instead of getting thrown in straight in the fire after the 3 weeks at home (at Mizzou, at LSU, at A&M)

 

would like the bye to be a little later in the season, but what are you going to do. 
 

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Is Ohio State gonna be a night game? Or is it gonna be a boring 11AM kickoff where the crowd is half asleep?

Posted
6 hours ago, The_Great_Hornsby said:

Is Ohio State gonna be a night game? Or is it gonna be a boring 11AM kickoff where the crowd is half asleep?

I seem to remember that Fox doesn’t have the game this year, so we should be good. 

Posted
7 hours ago, The_Great_Hornsby said:

Is Ohio State gonna be a night game? Or is it gonna be a boring 11AM kickoff where the crowd is half asleep?

Should be as no other team has a game that would get the attention for a that night slot on ABC.    Michigan/OU although will be less attractive now thanks to the chaos at Michigan will probably be on CBS or Fox since it’s a home game for Michigan.  We should probably have the Gameday crew on campus too.   

Posted (edited)
8 hours ago, wood said:

Seriously. Pretty much the same teams. Mostly at home for long stretches or on the road for long stretches. No in between. WTF?

On the reveal show last night, they discussed how the league office used AI with input from the individual AD’s from each school.   I’m trying to figure out what CDC might have told the league office that would cause AI to spit out essentially what is the same thing we did this year with the long stretches on the road and not having our off week later in the season.  

Here’s hoping in 2027 that kind of gets evened out and we get to have the conference opener at home which for the second year we are on the road.  IF we can’t have our off week later in the season, perhaps moving one our cupcakes would accomplish the same thing.  aggy kind of has a good deal with having one of their cupcakes in the middle of the season and right after a road trip to Mizzou and before their road trip to Bama.    

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Posted
11 minutes ago, Pancho said:

Georgia gets 8 home games. 
 

fucking wild

Yep.  Having the Florida game in Atlanta this fall is essentially a home game for them.  

Just eyeballing the conference schedule in one of the above post, it appears they are one of five teams that also doesn’t have consecutive road games, but get consecutive home games.    Pushing one of cupcakes later in the season helps some schools it appears.  

Posted (edited)
56 minutes ago, Pancho said:

Georgia gets 8 home games. 

fucking wild

Kirby wasn't a fan of 9 SEC regular season games...

He wants protect his team from injuries... long damn season when yah make the playoffs so 8 home games helps.  

 

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Posted
12 hours ago, mdmost said:

For the first time, I'm good with dropping tough OOC games. I'm not so worried about Michigan now but we shouldn't give Notre Dame an f'ing thing when we are playing a schedule like this every year now. Join a conference. 

"The CF Playoff Committee has emphasised that SOS is of utmost importance for playoff selection.  Therefore Texas will be dropping weak non-playoff teams such as Michigan and ND and instead have scheduled JMU and Tulane for OCC games through 2030" 

Posted
11 hours ago, dcar00 said:

If we got SOS credit for Tx ST and UTSA vs Citadel/Campbell it would be nice but I don't think you do. until they punish SOS and SOR for FCS, it is basically getting a bye.  TXST and UTSA I would not consider a bye.  It is a 98% win but the game won't be over in the 1st quarter like those others.

Stop.  Those are byes.  Come on man

Posted
59 minutes ago, Nueces River Rat said:

Yep.  Having the Florida game in Atlanta this fall is essentially a home game for them.  

Just eyeballing the conference schedule in one of the above post, it appears they are one of five teams that also doesn’t have consecutive road games, but get consecutive home games.    Pushing one of cupcakes later in the season helps some schools it appears.  

Favored school, by far

Such BS. 

Posted
9 hours ago, UTexasFight said:

We knew this back in late September.

Georgia finally comes to college station in 2027, 15 years after A&M joined the conference.

 

yes I know.  it still bears repeating because of how hilarious it is.

Posted
27 minutes ago, Im_smarter_then_you said:

Stop.  Those are byes.  Come on man

they aren't byes like FCS/Citadel/Campbell.   you still have to prep some and they are going to actually have some athletes.

I know they are a win but that is different than an FCS bye.  

I don't really care other than you should get more credit on SOS for TXST/UTSA v FCS...The other thing I'm unclear on is if it is better to have played a 5-7 UTSA vs a 10-2/11-1 FCS.

Posted (edited)
10 hours ago, dcar00 said:

where are you booking flights?  AA and SW both won't let book out that far.

AA had flights available. (Nothing nonstop from Austin though)

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Posted
2 hours ago, Nueces River Rat said:

On the reveal show last night, they discussed how the league office used AI with input from the individual AD’s from each school.   I’m trying to figure out what CDC might have told the league office that would cause AI to spit out essentially what is the same thing we did this year with the long stretches on the road and not having our off week later in the season.  

Here’s hoping in 2027 that kind of gets evened out and we get to have the conference opener at home which for the second year we are on the road.  IF we can’t have our off week later in the season, perhaps moving one our cupcakes would accomplish the same thing.  aggy kind of has a good deal with having one of their cupcakes in the middle of the season and right after a road trip to Mizzou and before their road trip to Bama.    

I don’t get this.

people want a conference opener at home. And don’t want as long of stretches on the road (2 straight weeks. Oh the horror).

You can’t have both.

if you have the first, that’s just going to make the 2nd even worse in years like this where all of our non-con is at home.

I’ll give you the quibble if you want to complain about the bye week happening after 1/3rd of the season is over, but the rest of this is really not bad.

Posted
4 minutes ago, UTexasFight said:

people want a conference opener at home.

Texas will have had 2 conference home openers in the 6 seasons encompassing 2021 to 2026 (2021 - Tech and 2024 - MSST)

2022/2023 and 2025/2026 both open conf play on the road. 

Posted
25 minutes ago, dcar00 said:

they aren't byes like FCS/Citadel/Campbell.   you still have to prep some and they are going to actually have some athletes.

I know they are a win but that is different than an FCS bye.  

I don't really care other than you should get more credit on SOS for TXST/UTSA v FCS...The other thing I'm unclear on is if it is better to have played a 5-7 UTSA vs a 10-2/11-1 FCS.

SOS is based on power ratings not records.  It's not RPI. So this year's Sam Houston and Tarleton State are going to be roughly equal.

Posted
12 minutes ago, UTexasFight said:

I don’t get this.

people want a conference opener at home. And don’t want as long of stretches on the road (2 straight weeks. Oh the horror).

You can’t have both.

if you have the first, that’s just going to make the 2nd even worse in years like this where all of our non-con is at home.

I’ll give you the quibble if you want to complain about the bye week happening after 1/3rd of the season is over, but the rest of this is really not bad.

Auburn, Arky, Aggy and Tennessee have this without long stretches on the road.  

 

Posted
13 hours ago, Hank_Hill said:

People were saying next years schedule is notably harder…what am I missing?

Friday

By Bobby Burton

The 2026 Texas football schedule was released yesterday evening.

Here it is:

2026 Texas Football Schedule

Sept. 5: vs. Texas State

Sept. 12: vs. Ohio State

Sept. 19 vs. UTSA 

Sept. 26: @ Tennessee

Oct. 3: IDLE

Oct. 10: vs. Oklahoma  (in Dallas)

Oct. 17: vs. Florida

Oct. 24: vs. Ole Miss

Oct. 31: vs. Miss State (Halloween)

Nov. 7:  at Missouri

Nov. 14: at LSU

Nov. 21: vs. Arkansas

Nov. 27: at Texas A&M

**

Some thoughts:

- Texas plays only one true road game all the way into November. But then the Horns finish with three of four on the road.

- Tennessee is that early road game and it’s the first game of the SEC schedule. It’s a similar set up to this past season when the Horns started SEC play on the road against at Florida.

- Yet again this season, it’s an absolutely loaded schedule.

Texas is set to play four teams (Ohio State, Oklahoma, Ole Miss and A&M) in this year’s college football playoff, plus LSU, Tennessee and Missouri on the road, and Florida at home.

There’s a real chance that, in all, Texas will play eight ranked teams in 2026.

**

The strength of the schedule reinforced one thing: Texas needs to make hay in the portal next month.

They’ll need more front-line players and more depth to get through this gauntlet.

It would also be nice if the playoffs expanded to 16 teams giving Texas some leeway.

**

As it relates to that early season Tennessee game, you may not have noticed but Jim Knowles was named the Vols’ new defensive coordinator this week.

Knowles was the former DC at Oklahoma State that gave Sark fits his first couple of years and then was the Ohio State defensive coordinator in the national semifinal a year ago.

Knowles likes to run a version of the three-high safety look that has given Sark’s offense troubles previously.

That will be a subplot in the first SEC game of 2026.

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