The dates for the 2026 Texas Longhorns schedule are set on Thursday with the release from the SEC that features nine games in the Lone Star State and seven games at Darrell K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium in a big reversal from the 2025 campaign that forced the Horns on the road for the season opener and kept them away from Austin for the entire month of October.
As the SEC moves to a nine-game conference schedule, Texas hosts buy games against Texas State to open the season and UTSA to close the non-conference
slate sandwiched around a monster matchup against Ohio State on the Forty Acres. The Horns haven’t faced the Bobcats since 1930.
In late September, the Horns travel to Knoxville to face the Volunteers at Neyland Stadium for the first time as the two UTs face off for the first time since the 1969 Cotton Bowl.
After a bye week and the annual grudge match in Dallas, Texas hosts three straight home games against Florida, Ole Miss, and Mississippi State.
But those contests on the Forty Acres hide a difficult reality for the Longhorns — with a late start to the season, the only bye week comes after three games, setting up a stretch of nine games in nine weeks to finish the campaign.
Three of the final four games are on the road — at Missouri, at LSU, and at Texas A&M with a second straight home game against Arkansas the week before Thanksgiving.
