The Texas Longhorns have revised their 2025 football schedule, which affects their home game against Sam Houston and one of their open dates. Texas Athletics Director Chris Del Conte confirmed the move is his weekly newsletter Tuesday.
Texas was previously scheduled to have an open date on Saturday, Sept. 20 before hosting the Sam Houston Bearkats on Saturday, Sept. 27 at Darrell K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium in Austin, Texas.
However, the Longhorns will now host the Bearkats in Austin one week earlier on Saturday, Sept. 20. That also means that Texas’ first open date of the season has been shifted to Sept. 27. No other games on the 2025 Texas football schedule were affected by the Sam Houston game change.
If the Sam Houston-Texas game had not been moved, the Bearkats would have had consecutive open dates on Sept. 13 and Sept. 20 following their Sept. 6 contest at Hawai’i.
Texas is scheduled to open the season on Saturday, Aug. 30 on the road against the Ohio State Buckeyes. The Longhorns open their home slate against the San Jose State Spartans on Sept. 6 before welcoming the UTEP Miners the following week on Sept. 13.
With SEC play for Texas set to begin on Oct. 4 at Florida, the Longhorns will now have an open date preceding that contest. Texas will also visit Kentucky, Mississippi State, and Georgia this fall, and will also face Oklahoma at the Cotton Bowl in Dallas, Texas.
SEC opponents slated to visit Austin in 2025 include Vanderbilt, Arkansas, and Texas A&M.
Below is Texas’ complete schedule for the 2025 season, plus a link to their schedule page which will be updated with kickoff times and TV as they are announced:
- 08/30 – at Ohio State
- 09/06 – San Jose State
- 09/13 – UTEP
- 09/20 – Sam Houston
- 09/27 – OFF
- 10/04 – at Florida*
- 10/11 – vs. Oklahoma* (Dallas)
- 10/18 – at Kentucky*
- 10/25 – at Mississippi State*
- 11/01 – Vanderbilt*
- 11/08 – OFF
- 11/15 – at Georgia*
- 11/22 – Arkansas*
- 11/29 – Texas A&M*
* SEC contest.
Texas has a rough schedule upcoming in 2025 (except for UTEP).
Mannnn, that home slate is kind of a snoozer. I know there are reasons. The arrangment of the home/home with Michigan worked in a weird way so that that series and the Ohio State one work out as @ Michigan, @ Ohio State, Ohio State, Michigan, so the next couple years Texas gets 2 big non-conference home games after a couple seasons of non-conference away games. Plus the SEC still up in the air about whether they’ll switch to a 9 game conference slate next year (yes, please!) or stick to 8, plus maintaining a neutral site game with Oklahoma… but…
San Jose State
UTEP
Sam Houston
[no home games for October]
Vanderbilt
Arkansas
Texas A&M
… it’s not to say that Vandy, Arkansas, and A&M couldn’t be exciting games. But even with A&M on there, the shine’s off a little since the Aggies needed to be placated by renewing the rivalry in College Station despite the home/away/home/away pattern suggesting that Austin would have made more sense. At least last season had Georgia and (exciting in name at least) Florida as home games.
Next season should improve things again, between the home game with Ohio State… and a conference slate that should include some or all of Mississippi, Tennessee, Alabama, Missouri, Auburn, South Carolina, LSU, and the neutral game with Oklahoma. You’d have to try pretty hard to put ALL the big name opponents as road games in the same season with that list. (And that would likely be the entire list of conference opponents unless they do the right thing and go with a 9-team slate, allowing for 3 permanent rivals, in which case one of those will have to wait to play Texas, and Texas A&M and Arkansas would likely be added to the list.
Conference games are very, very important no matter what.