Texas football and Michigan will flip home-and-home series in 2024
Texas football and the Oklahoma Sooners were able to reach an agreement with the Big 12 on Feb. 9 that both schools will be able to leave the conference to join the SEC earlier than originally anticipated. Texas and Oklahoma will now be exiting the Big 12 early in 2024 to join the SEC, with the agreement being a combined financial penalty of $100 million.
Part of the issue that the Longhorns and Sooners faced when trying to reach an agreement with the Big 12 and the TV networks to leave the conference before 2025 was the money involved on the remainder of the TV contracts. It looked like Fox was set to get everything it could from Texas and Oklahoma before the two schools left for the SEC.
And something that apparently helped to move this deal along with Fox, in particular, was the ability to shuffle around some of the future non-conference schedules for the Longhorns. A report from ESPN’s Pete Thamel on Twitter on Feb. 9 shows the shuffling that will take place for the Longhorns as part of a future non-conference home-and-home series with the Michigan Wolverines.
Texas will flip the home sites with Michigan in 2024 and 2027 when the two programs meet on the gridiron.
Home-and-home series between Texas football and Michigan will now start in Ann Arbor instead of Austin in 2024
That game flip was a key driver for Fox agreeing to this deal to let Oklahoma and Texas out of the Big 12 a year early.
— Pete Thamel (@PeteThamel) February 10, 2023
This means that Texas will now travel to Ann Arbor next year to face Michigan. And the Longhorns will now host the Wolverines at home at Darrell K. Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium in Austin in the second leg of this home-and-home series in 2027.
The home-and-home series with Michigan is one part of two matchups of this nature for the Longhorns against blue blood program out of the Big Ten. Texas will also face the Ohio State Buckeyes in a home-and-home series in 2025 and 2026 that will start out with the Longhorns traveling to Columbus to face the Buckeyes at Ohio Stadium in a couple of years.
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Texas hasn’t faced Michigan in football since the 2004-05 Rose Bowl Game when legendary quarterback Vince Young led the Longhorns to the first of two consecutive wins at that venue in the postseason. That is the one and only time that Texas and Michigan have faced each other in football.