Greg McElroy names Texas football-Texas A&M a top 2024 SEC game

The first SEC conference schedule was unveiled for Texas football for the 2024 season live on the SEC Network on June 14. Texas got a pretty intriguing eight-game conference schedule for its first season in the SEC next fall, including three traditional rivalry games.

Head coach Steve Sarkisian and the Longhorns will get to face the Oklahoma Sooners in the Red River Rivalry game at the traditional site of the Cotton Bowl at the Texas State Fairgrounds in Dallas. And then, the Longhorns will travel to College Station to face the in-state rival Texas A&M Aggies at Kyle Field for the first time since the 2011 season.

The last of the big rivalry games on Texas’ SEC slate during the 2024 season will be a road trip to Fayetteville and Donald W. Reynolds Razorback Stadium to face the Arkansas Razorbacks for the first time in a few years.

This loaded slate of games for the Longhorns during its first year in the SEC will make for some of the most highly anticipated games in the entire conference next season.

Greg McElroy tabs Texas football vs. Texas A&M rivalry as one of the best SEC games in 2024

Greg McElroy named the five SEC games he is most looking forward to in 2024 on his who “Always College Football” on June 15, which included the Longhorns a few times.

McElroy named Texas-Texas A&M as his second-most anticipated SEC game of the 2024 season. The Georgia Bulldogs traveling to face the Longhorns in Austin next season followed up the Texas-Texas A&M game as the third-most anticipated in the SEC in 2024.

And then, the list rounded out with Texas facing Arkansas on the road in Fayetteville among his five most anticipated games in the SEC in 2024.

Here is the complete list from McElroy.

1. Georgia at Alabama
2. Texas at Texas A&M
3. Georgia at Texas
4. Alabama at Oklahoma
5. Texas at Arkansas

It’s hard to argue with the placement of the Alabama Crimson Tide hosting the defending back-to-back National Champion Georgia in Tuscaloosa as the top SEC game next season. Georgia and Alabama have only faced each other once in the regular season in the last six years.

Alabama traveling to Norman to face Oklahoma will also be an intriguing matchup and something that hasn’t happened in just over two decades.

A few other highly-anticipated games for the Longhorns next season will be Florida at DKR and Michigan on the road in Ann Arbor. Michigan is currently set to be the only non-conference Power Five school the Longhorns face during the 2024 regular season.