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With an altered 2025 schedule, the structure of the Texas Longhorns' season is clear

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Steve Sarkisian, Arch Manning
Steve Sarkisian, Arch Manning (Will Gallagher/Inside Texas)

On Tuesday, Texas athletics director Chris Del Conte announced that the Longhorns’ non-conference game versus Sam Houston State was changing dates.

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“Our home football game with Sam Houston this fall is moving up a week to September 20,” Del Conte wrote. “It was originally scheduled for September 27 but will now be played a week earlier closing out our non-conference schedule that includes a road game at Ohio State (Aug. 30), and home games with San Jose State (Sep. 6), UTEP (Sep. 13) and Sam Houston (Sep. 20). We’ll have a bye-week Sep. 27 then open SEC play at Florida (Oct. 4).”

Because of the way the calendar works, the Texas season now has several distinguishable segments that looks almost like the way the game is structured.

First will be training camp, which is likely to start at the tail end of July considering the campaign starts on August 30 in Columbus, Ohio against the national champion Ohio State Buckeyes. The start of the actual season in Ohio Stadium begins the second quarter of Texas’ 2025 season.

That second stanza consists of the game at Ohio State followed by three home non-conference games against Group of Five teams. After the final non-conference contest against Sam Houston, Texas goes on its first bye.

The third quarter might be the toughest stretch, a piece of info that makes sense considering the third quarter struggles from the 2024 Longhorns. Texas starts October at Florida, plays Oklahoma in the Cotton Bowl, travels to Kentucky, then heads to Mississippi State, and finishes a challenging five-week stretch at home versus Vanderbilt on the first day of November.

Texas’ second bye week is November 8, a good time for Steve Sarkisian‘s group to get ready for the challenging fourth quarter.

That stretch starts with a trip to Georgia to face the SEC champion Bulldogs on November 15, followed by a home rivalry game versus Arkansas on November 22. Texas ends the season with the traditional Thanksgiving weekend matchup with Texas A&M, and if it’s lucky, plays the following Saturday on December 6 in the SEC Championship to close out the fourth quarter.

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The hopes would then be to play a lengthy overtime in the 12-team College Football Playoff, a difficult task but one the Longhorns hope a regimented, four quarter season prepares them for under the guidance of Sarkisian and with Arch Manning at the helm of the offense.

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