Texas Football: 3 takeaways from the Longhorns 2024 SEC schedule

The eight-game conference schedule for the inaugural season for Texas football and the Oklahoma Sooners in the SEC was unveiled live on SEC Network on June 14. Texas and head coach Steve Sarkisian got an intriguing schedule in conference play for their first season as a member school in the SEC.

Some of the SEC schedule leaked for the Longhorns ahead of the SEC Network announcement on the evening of June 14. We figured out that the Longhorns would host the Georgia Bulldogs, play the Arkansas Razorbacks and Texas A&M Aggies on the road, and face the Sooners in the Red River Rivalry game at the traditional site at the Cotton Bowl in Dallas.

Texas fans have to like what they see in this SEC schedule for 2024.

• Florida (home)
• Georgia (home)
• Kentucky (home)
• Mississippi State (home)
• OU (neutral)
• Arkansas (road)
• Texas A&M (road)
• Vanderbilt (road)

Not only did Sark and the Longhorns get more home games than road games, but they also got to play their three biggest rivals in the conference next season.

Texas fans have a lot of reasons to be excited about what lies ahead in the SEC in 2024.

Texas football and Steve Sarkisian get intriguing SEC schedule for 2024

Here are three takeaways from unveiling the Longhorns’ first SEC football schedule for the 2024 season.

SEC protecting key rivalries

It is fantastic to see the SEC keeping the key rivalries together in the SEC upon Texas and Oklahoma joining the conference next year. Texas faces its three biggest rivals in Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Texas A&M, in its first year in the SEC.

The SEC also kept together other key rivalries around the conference.

• Alabama vs. Auburn
• Alabama vs. Tennessee
• Alabama vs. LSU
• Georgia vs. Auburn
• Florida vs. Tennessee
• Florida vs. Georgia
• Ole Miss vs. Mississippi State
• Ole Miss vs. Arkansas
• Arkansas vs. Texas A&M
• Arkansas vs. LSU
• Tennessee vs. Vanderbilt
• Texas A&M vs. LSU

The fact that the SEC kept so many of these key rivalries together indicates that Texas could face Arkansas, Texas A&M, and Oklahoma annually. That would be fantastic for all of these fan bases and good for all of college football.