Believe it or not, Texas football has never played these FBS teams
Texas football vs. Sun Belt
The MAC and the Sun Belt are the two FBS conferences with the most schools that haven’t faced the Longhorns in football. The latter of those two conferences has a double-digit number of schools that the Longhorns haven’t faced on the gridiron.
Most of the schools the Longhorns haven’t faced in the Sun Belt recently made the jump from the FCS to the FBS or just moved conferences in the last few years. Many Sun Belt schools are also on the east coast, which means they mostly face east coast SEC schools and ACC schools in the non-conference schedule year in and year out in football.
It just makes more sense for programs like the Appalachian State Mountaineers or the Coastal Carolina Chanticleers to face a P5 non-conference foe like the South Carolina Gamecocks, North Carolina Tar Heels, NC State Wolfpack, etc., instead of one from the Big 12 like the Longhorns or Sooners.
Appalachian State Mountaineers
Coastal Carolina Chanticleers
Georgia Southern Eagles
Georgia State Panthers
James Madison Dukes
Marshall Thundering Herd
Old Dominion Monarchs
South Alabama Jaguars
Southern Miss Golden Eagles
Troy Trojans
With the move looming next year for the Longhorns and Sooners to join the SEC, it wouldn’t be surprising to see southeastern Sun Belt schools like Southern Miss, South Alabama, Georgia State, Georgia Southern, etc., make it on a future non-conference schedule in the 2030s.
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Texas has faced other more tenured Sun Belt schools, such as the Louisiana Ragin’ Cajuns and Louisiana-Monroe Warhawks, multiple times in the last decade. ULM is also on multiple non-conference schedules in the mid-to-late 2020s for the Longhorns.