Sam Acho, Desmond Howard debate Texas' biggest test remaining on its schedule

Texas cleared a hurdle in Ann Arbor with ease last weekend when it dominated then-No. 10 Michigan, 31-12. The No. 2 Longhorns pocketed a win against the defending national champs and proved their national-contending-chops in the process.

As Texas gears up for its first-ever SEC slate, the question is, what’s the Longhorns’ biggest test remaining on their regular season schedule?

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ESPN analysts Sam Acho and Desmond Howard debated that question Tuesday on “College Football Live.”

“Texas’ biggest test is going to be the last game of the season when they go to Kyle Field and play A&M, a game in which they haven’t played in over a decade,” Acho, a former Longhorns linebacker, said confidently.

“Why do I say that? You’re saying, ‘Man, they play Oklahoma, they play Georgia.’ Texas is going to be ready for Oklahoma, that’s a rivalry game, both teams are going to get up for that game. Georgia, there’s no questions about that game. But [if] A&M ends up having not as great of a season as you would expect, and, all of a sudden, Texas does toward the end of the season start reading those newspaper clippings, you may go into Kyle Field and get a result that you don’t expect.”

Acho added: “See, that’s another rivalry game that, just like the Texas-OU game, exists. And so it’s a game where both teams are going to step up and be ready. So I think the biggest test for Texas is going to be end of the season when they play Texas A&M.”

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Howard was laughing even before Acho could finish his answer.

Then the former Michigan wide receiver and return specialist rebutted his colleague, mainly pointing to Texas’ Oct. 19 date with top-ranked Georgia.

“I think that’s a far stretch,” Howard said to Acho. “I look at the rosters, and that’s why we talk about the Michigan game: If you didn’t know the names of the teams, and you just put up ‘this roster versus that roster,’ you would pick Texas’ roster every time not even knowing it was a Texas team — just because of everybody they had returning versus everyone that Michigan lost.

“Now you’re talking about the Aggies. The Aggies are a team that lost at home to a team (Notre Dame) who we just saw lose at home to a MAC team. And you think that’s going to be Texas’ toughest game when they have to play Georgia, the No. 1 team in the country? I mean, listen, Sam, you present very compelling arguments. You’re very articulate, but, brother, at the end of the day, they gotta get on that gridiron, man, and they gotta go against them ‘Dawgs.’”

Howard added: “And them Dawgs are going to be barking. … They got a bigger bite than the Aggies. So their toughest game is going to be against the Georgia Bulldogs, there’s no doubt about that.”

ESPN’s Football Power Index likes Texas in each of its final 10 regular season games. In fact, the FPI gives the Longhorns a 59.8% chance of defeating Georgia.