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Texas' SEC opponents for the next four seasons revealed

by: Evan Vieth09/23/25
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Just days after the SEC’s annual protected rivalries from 2026-29 were revealed by On3, the conference announced each team’s league opponents and the locations of those games during that same span.

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Texas’ opponent locks were no surprise. The Longhorns will play Texas A&M, Oklahoma, and Arkansas every season from now until 2029. What wasn’t known was who Texas would play in the other six games of the newly created nine-game conference schedule.

In an hour-long TV special on the SEC Network that aired from 6-7 p.m. today, Texas was given the following SEC opponents for the 2026, 2027, 2028 and 2029 seasons.

2026

  • Arkansas
  • Oklahoma (Dallas)
  • at Texas A&M
  • Florida
  • Mississippi State
  • Ole Miss
  • at LSU
  • at Missouri
  • at Tennessee

2027

  • at Arkansas
  • Oklahoma (Dallas)
  • Texas A&M
  • Auburn
  • Georgia
  • Kentucky
  • at Alabama
  • at South Carolina
  • at Vanderbilt

2028

  • Arkansas
  • Oklahoma (Dallas)
  • at Texas A&M
  • LSU
  • Missouri
  • Tennessee
  • at Florida
  • at Mississippi State
  • at Ole Miss

2029

  • at Arkansas
  • Oklahoma (Dallas)
  • Texas A&M
  • Alabama
  • South Carolina
  • Vanderbilt
  • at Auburn
  • at Georgia
  • at Kentucky

While the sites and opponents will be known in advance, the dates of the games for just the 2026 season will be announced in December.

Texas’ 2026 schedule is an intriguing one. While obviously playing against the three locked opponents, the Longhorns will face Florida, Mississippi State, and Ole Miss at home. Texas will travel to LSU, Missouri, and Tennessee.

This schedule comes with a lot of new for Longhorn fans, even with them having just joined the conference last season. Texas and Tennessee have not played since 1968, and the Longhorns have never been to Knoxville.

The SEC announced in August that it will being the nine-game schedule in 2026, with this schedule being the first of its kind in the SEC. The conference has played eight conference games each year since 1992. 

Under the new locked-opponents format, Texas will face the Aggies, Sooners and Razorbacks annually before having the remaining six games rotate among the remaining conference schools. The new format will allow each team to play every other SEC program at least once every two years and every opponent home and away in four years.

On top of these rules, each conference team is required to schedule at least one additional high-quality non-conference game from the Big Ten, ACC, Big 12 or Notre Dame. Texas will host Ohio State in Week 2 of 2026, Michigan in 2027, head to Notre Dame in 2028, before hosting the Irish in 2029.

The full 2026 schedule can be seen below

  • Sept. 5 – Texas State
  • Sept. 12 – Ohio State
  • Sept. 19 – UTSA
  • TBA – Arkansas
  • TBA – Oklahoma (Dallas)
  • TBA – at Texas A&M
  • TBA – Florida
  • TBA – Mississippi State
  • TBA – Ole Miss
  • TBA – At LSU
  • TBA – At Missouri
  • TBA – At Tennessee

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