Everyone has already seen what Texas Tech HC Joey McGuire said about Texas, and Longhorns fans have been hilariously trolling both him and the university.
The fact that McGuire has been legitimately trying to "schedule Texas" over the past couple of days, when he knows for a fact that it would never be able to happen, is wild. It's an obvious PR stunt, and it looks incredibly corny for the entire Red Raider football program.
McGuire knows that the NCAA would never let a major schedule change like that happen, regardless of who he was willing to pay off.
Shortly after the news broke that McGuire and Texas Tech were willing to pay both Abilene Christian and Texas State to basically back out of their games in 2026, the internet absolutely erupted.
Joey McGuire's end goal probably isn't to actually play Texas in 2026
Little Man Syndrome in Lubbock is clearly alive and thriving.
— Bobby Burton (@BobbyBurtonOTF) May 28, 2026
Of course he’s eager to announce to the world that 100 days out from the regular season with a schedule that’s been set for 5 years, he’s all of sudden ready to play Texas when he knows it won’t happen.
— HornSports (@HornSports) May 28, 2026
Congrats on the PR win.
Texas State already has one FCS opponent on the schedule (Incarnate Word), and you can’t count multiple FCS wins towards bowl eligibility.
— HornSports (@HornSports) May 28, 2026
So if McGuire really did talk to GJ Kinne about this arrangement, the response from Kinne was probably “no thanks”. https://t.co/z3Uxct2kM0
— One Stop Texas (@OneStopHorns) May 28, 2026
He’s only saying this because he knows they’re not going to change a schedule that’s been set for years 100 days before the season. Texas Tech would lose that game. https://t.co/UDApcpKGSm
— John Burrows (@JohnBurrowsCFB) May 28, 2026
Besides the simple fact that this year's Texas team would absolutely wipe the floor with Texas Tech, this just looks bad for everyone involved in the fake show of toughness by McGuire. Multiple people associated with the Red Raiders have taken to X to get in their random "Yeah, go get 'em Joey" posts, and they've been making it even worse.
Anyone who knows anything about college football knows that a schedule can't be amended like that when we're only 100-ish days away from the start of the 2026 season.
The Longhorns are also playing one of the toughest schedules in all of college football this season. Why on earth would they want to play Texas Tech? The College Football Playoff Committee has already shown that resume' and quality of wins don't matter (proven by the fact that Texas missed the CFP last season), so there's nothing to gain from playing the Red Raiders so early in the year.
If Texas Tech can prove that 2025 wasn't just a "flash in the pan" for their football program, then maybe the two teams will meet each other in the postseason this year. That's most likely the only way that we'll see a Texas vs. Tech Tech football game anytime soon, and let's just say that it probably won't be occurring in the near future.
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