Texas heads into a quiet Saturday, which gives us some time to look forward. In this case, we are looking forward to the 2027 season. Yesterday, the SEC released the schedules for every team for 2026 through 2029, including the Longhorns. The scheduling format includes three annual opponents, the Longhorns being Texas A&M, Oklahoma and Arkansas.
Outside of those three, you have a rotating cast of six, allowing for every team in the conference to play every other team every two years. That means the Longhorns will be seeing teams they have not seen recently, and will be staring down schedules that are loaded with true National Championship contenders. In the case of the Longhorns, 2027 is the year that shapes up as a true gauntlet.
The 2027 schedule Texas is going to be grueling.
at Alabama
vs. Georgia
vs. Michigan
Oklahoma (Dallas)
vs. Texas A&M
vs. Auburn
at South Carolina
vs. Kentucky
at Arkansas
at VanderbiltFortunately, that will be when the No. 1 overall recruiting class in 2026 will be juniors.
— CJ Vogel (@CJVogel_OTF) September 24, 2025
Any schedule where you draw Michigan, Alabama, Georgia, Oklahoma and Texas A&M is going to be incredibly tough. When you take into context what Texas could be staring down, it becomes that much more interesting. 2027, presumably, is the year Arch Manning will be moving on, and either KJ Lacey or Dia Bell take over the reins at QB. The positive piece of this is the #1 recruiting class that Sarkisina and company brought in will be going into their junior seasons.
Michigan could be walking into the third year with Bryce Underwood as their starter, with Underwood shaping up to be one of the next great CFB QBs. Alabama could very well be led by Keelon Russell, the incredible QB prospect from Duncanville HS. Georgia is likely to have Jared Curtis, #2 2026 QB, only behind Dia Bell, under center. This schedule is littered with some of the very best future QB talent in college football.
This is a schedule that is intimidating but exciting. This is the massive plus of the SEC moving to a 9-game conference schedule, Longhorn fans get Georgia, Texas A&M, Michigan and more at home in one season. It’s something that Longhorn fans have not experienced, at least to this level, maybe ever.
If the Longhorns continue their rise as a program, they will be in heavyweight bouts week in and week out during the 2027 season. It will be incredible when that season does come, but for now, it’s about continuing the climb so that schedule looks like an opportunity in 2027 and not a punishment.
This article originally appeared on Longhorns Wire: Texas Longhorns 2027 tough schedule includes Georgia, Bama & Michigan
