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Texas Football: Why the Clemson series is a good idea for the Longhorns

By Andrew Miller

CHARLOTTE, NC - DECEMBER 02: Head coach Dabo Swinney of the Clemson Tigers celebrates after defeating the Miami Hurricanes 38-3 in the ACC Football Championship at Bank of America Stadium on December 2, 2017 in Charlotte, North Carolina. (Photo by Streeter Lecka/Getty Images)
CHARLOTTE, NC - DECEMBER 02: Head coach Dabo Swinney of the Clemson Tigers celebrates after defeating the Miami Hurricanes 38-3 in the ACC Football Championship at Bank of America Stadium on December 2, 2017 in Charlotte, North Carolina. (Photo by Streeter Lecka/Getty Images) /
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KNOXVILLE, TN – NOVEMBER 18: Head coach Ed Orgeron of the LSU Tigers sings the fight song following their win over the Tennessee Volunteers at Neyland Stadium on November 18, 2017 in Knoxville, Tennessee. (Photo by Michael Reaves/Getty Images)
KNOXVILLE, TN – NOVEMBER 18: Head coach Ed Orgeron of the LSU Tigers sings the fight song following their win over the Tennessee Volunteers at Neyland Stadium on November 18, 2017 in Knoxville, Tennessee. (Photo by Michael Reaves/Getty Images) /

Other big matchups upcoming for Texas

While we’re looking ahead to more blue blood programs that the Horns could schedule within the next 10 or 12 years, there’s already a lot to be excited about in the coming seasons. Following the 2018 season, Texas has a home-and-home series lined up with a big time program from a bordering state in LSU.

The SEC and the Big 12 are no strangers to each other. In fact, the last team that the Horns faced last season was a former Big 12 foe and now SEC East team in the Mizzou Tigers. Texas was able to reignite the former conference rivalry with Mizzou by knocking off the Tigers in the Texas Bowl by a double-digit margin.

After Texas faces LSU in 2019 and 2020, it gets the Arkansas Razorbacks in one of the older rivalries for the Horns, in 2021. Potentially the biggest non-conference matchup that’s slated for Texas within the next decade comes in 2022 and 2023 with Nick Saban and the Crimson Tide awaiting a home-and-home series that was announced earlier in the 2018 off-season.

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All of these exciting non-conference series are capped off with some marquee matchups with two of the most known Big 10 programs in the Ohio State Buckeyes and Michigan Wolverines. Being able to add someone like Georgia, Penn State, or especially Clemson to the line of marquee non-conference matchups in the coming years would add a whole new dynamic to the upcoming schedule.

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