Quinn Ewers on being in the SEC: 'We're going to be everybody's biggest game'

As Texas enters its first season in the SEC, quarterback Quinn Ewers believes the Longhorns are going in with a target on their back.

There are obviously plenty of contenders in the SEC, but Quinn Ewers feels that every team Texas plays will be at its best against the Longhorns.

“We’re going to be everybody’s biggest game, for sure,” Quinn Ewers said Friday at the Manning Passing Academy.

Ewers and the Longhorns beat the SEC champion in 2023 in Alabama, earning a 34-24 win in Tuscaloosa. The 2024 SEC schedule for Texas includes matchups with Mississippi State, Oklahoma, Georgia, Vanderbilt, Florida, Arkansas, Kentucky and Texas A&M.

Quinn Ewers is looking forward to seeing what the SEC is all about for an entire eight-game schedule.

“It’s definitely a different level. I’ve always wanted to play in the SEC. I know we’re all excited to be a part of a conference like that,” Ewers said.

“Football definitely means a lot for that conference. We’re going into it full speed. We want to win the SEC Championship, and we want to accomplish what we were so close to accomplishing last year. I know that we have a team that’s more than capable of doing that.”

As Ewers alluded to, Texas came up just short of playing for a national title in 2023. The Longhorns reached the College Football Playoff, before falling to Washington in a semifinal game.

Now Texas heads to the SEC with high expectations and aspirations.

On3’s Shea Dixon contributed to this report

Quinn Ewers jokes about Texas poaching Jim Schlossnagle: ‘Took the whole staff’

The Texas A&M-Texas football game to close out the 2024 season is sure to have plenty of juice. There is certainly some animosity between the two schools after Jim Schlossnagle recently left Texas A&M to take over as the head baseball coach at Texas.

Texas QB Quinn Ewers could do nothing but laugh about that fact when asked about it at the Manning Passing Academy on Friday.

“They definitely are (pissed off),” Ewers said with a smile, per Shea Dixon. “Took the whole staff.”

Schlossnagle is likely the least popular man in all of College Station at the moment. After leading Texas A&M to the final of the College World Series on Monday, he had already accepted Texas’ job offer by Tuesday and was wearing burnt orange by Wednesday. That was only further frustrating for the Aggies considering, after the title loss to Tennessee, he infamously said that he was the head coach there to “never take another job again.“

If that wasn’t enough, Schlossnagle also took a trio of assistants with him in Nolan Cain, Max Weiner, and Michael Earley.