Texas Football: 3 most important games in updated 2020 schedule

2. Oklahoma State Cowboys

With the defending National Champion LSU Tigers now out of the picture in all likelihood for the Longhorns this fall, the attention will turn to the Oklahoma schools now as the set in stone two most difficult opponents for this coming season. LSU was supposed to face the Longhorns on Sep. 12 on the road in Baton Rouge.

But now Texas will have to put their focus on the premier games that will come against the Oklahoma schools. Let’s start here with head coach Mike Gundy and the Oklahoma State Cowboys, who had themselves quite the tumultuous offseason to date. From all of the off-the-field storylines involving Gundy and superstar running back Chuba Hubbard, to an early set of players testing positive for COVID-19, Oklahoma State didn’t have much consistency yet this offseason.

However, Oklahoma State does maybe have the most potent skill position threats that Texas will face this coming season. Considering LSU is off the schedule, that should really be true depending on how Lincoln Riley’s come through in the early season.

Texas will have to compete with maybe the best running back in the country in Hubbard (a 2,000-yard rusher last season), and one of the best and most proven wide receivers in rising senior Tylan Wallace.

A lot of the fortunes for the Pokes this fall will rely on how the health of stars like Wallace and Hubbard holds up, along with the development of talented rising redshirt sophomore dual-threat quarterback Spencer Sanders. Last season, Texas was able to take advantage of two Sanders picks en route to a home win over the Pokes.

This time around, Texas and Oklahoma State were originally set to square off during Thanksgiving Week at Boone Pickens Stadium in Stillwater.