The 2024 SEC schedule could send Texas to places it's never seen
The Southeastern Conference announced on June 1 that SEC teams, including soon-to-be members Texas and Oklahoma, will play an eight-game conference schedule in the 2024 season due to what commissioner Greg Sankey called “scheduling complexities that can better be managed with a one-year schedule.”
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“During this time of change, our fans will continue to enjoy traditional rivalries and begin to see new matchups presented by the addition of two historically successful football programs to the SEC,” Sankey said.
The league said the opponents “will be announced June 14 on a special primetime show on the SEC Network, and dates of games will be announced at a later date.” The special will air at 6 p.m. Central.
The Longhorns are familiar with a number of teams they’ll share a league with next season. Texas and Oklahoma have played 118 times. The Longhorns and the Texas A&M Aggies have also shared the field on 118 occasions. Former Big 12 team Missouri matched up with Texas on 24 occasions, including many while the two teams shared a league. Even Arkansas, who left the Southwest Conference for the SEC ahead of the 1992 season, has faced off with the Longhorns 79 teams.
In the long history of the UT football program, Texas has played several games on the road versus other SEC opponents not previously mentioned. Texas will return to Tuscaloosa, Ala. this September for the first time since 1902. Auburn received its last visit in 1987. Texas hosted LSU in 2019 but the 2020 rematch was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The last trip to Baton Rouge for the Longhorns was in 1953.
Ole Miss and Texas split a home-and-home in 2012 and 2013, with the Longhorns winning in Oxford, Miss. in 2012 and losing in Austin in 2013. Mississippi State last hosted the Horns in Starkville, Miss. in 1991.
Texas last trekked to Gainesville, Fla. to face Florida in 1940. Vanderbilt, who actually holds an 8-3-1 record versus Texas, last saw the Horns in Nashville in 1925.
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There are a number of programs in the SEC Texas has never played as an on-campus visitor. That list could change if any of the following programs are announced as part of Texas’ 2024 schedule.
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Kentucky Wildcats – Lexington, Ky.
The two programs have played before, a 1951 contest where Ed Price’s Horns defeated Bear Bryant’s Wildcats in Austin by a score of 7-6. Texas has never played in Lexington.
Tennessee Volunteers – Knoxville, Tenn.
UT and UT have played three times in the Cotton Bowl, but never in Austin or Knoxville. Texas won the 1969 and 1953 New Year’s Day games, but lost the 1951 edition.
Georgia Bulldogs – Athens, Ga.
Texas played Georgia in recent years in the 2019 Sugar Bowl, and even battled the Bulldogs inside the lines of the Peach State. However, that game was in Atlanta in September 1957. The next time the Longhorns go between the hedges at Sanford Stadium will be the first.
South Carolina Gamecocks – Columbia, S.C.
South Carolina, at the time a member of the ACC, defeated first-year head coach Darrell Royal in Austin in 1957. It is the only matchup ever between the two teams.
