Texas will be away from home for all of October 2025, a task given to no other SEC team
The Texas Longhorns are going to learn a lot about themselves in October of 2025.
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The Southeastern Conference revealed Wednesday dates for conference games in the 2025 season, a year which will be the Longhorns’ second in the league.
The draw the Longhorns received for the month of October is a challenging one. Texas will not play a single game in at Darrell K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium, a challenge not given to any other SEC team in 2025. The only team whose schedule has a somewhat similar stretch is Florida, who plays Georgia at a neutral site on November 1 before traveling to Kentucky on November 8 and then Ole Miss on November 15. No other team plays four straight weeks away from home.
For the first time since 1940, Texas will trek to Gainesville, Fla. to face the Florida Gators on October 4, 2025. The Longhorns defeated Florida 49-17 in Austin on November 9, though UF was without start quarterback DJ Lagway for that game.
The annual rivalry matchup with Oklahoma in the Cotton Bowl is next. That won’t be a true road game as half of the crowd in the State Fair of Texas will be wearing burnt orange, and Texas will be considered the home team for the 2025 version. The trip to Dallas isn’t long, but it’s still a trip and a weekend spent away from home turf.
Following Oklahoma, Texas will make one of the longest road trips in the SEC when it goes to Lexington, Ky. to take on the Kentucky Wildcats. The Longhorns defeated the Wildcats 31-14 in Austin on November 23. Texas has never made a trip to the Bluegrass State to play Kentucky.
The final road trip of November is a trek to Starkville, Miss. to face the Mississippi State Bulldogs. The Longhorns defeated MSU 35-13 in September for their first win as a member of the SEC. The 2025 matchup will mark Texas’ first trip to Starkville since 1991, when the Longhorns lost 13-6.
Texas has six home games next year versus San Jose State (Sept. 6), UTEP (Sept. 13), Sam Houston (Sept. 27), Vanderbilt (Nov. 1), Arkansas (Nov. 22), and Texas A&M (Nov. 29).
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The Longhorns travel to Ohio State (Aug. 30), Florida (Oct. 4), Kentucky (Oct. 18), Mississippi State (Oct. 25), and Georgia (Nov. 15).
The neutral site Red River Shootout is October 11.
Texas will have two byes next year, one on September 20 and one on November 8.
Difficult scheduling has drawn ire from SEC head coaches in recent days. Moments after Georgia defeated Texas in overtime in the SEC Championship, Bulldogs head coach Kirby Smart took a shot at SEC commissioner Greg Sankey. In answering a question regarding what the championship and first-round bye in the College Football Playoff meant, Smart said “it means rest for a team that Greg Sankey and his staff sit on the road all year long.”
Georgia, of course, played eight of its 13 games in the state of Georgia in 2024. The only time it had to play true road games in back-to-back contests, it had a bye to separate those games.
Texas won’t have that luxury in 2025. It is worth noting that the teams Texas faces in October combined to go 7-25 in SEC play in 2024. However, college football fortunes can change on a dime and what was true for one season may not be true for the next.
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Either way, the Longhorns will spend a month away from home in 2025 during October, a schedule quirk that no other team in the conference will have to contend with.
