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247Sports reports that the Texas Longhorns and Texas Tech Red Raiders are in talks to continue their longstanding rivalry as non-conference opponents once Texas makes to the move to the SEC, a move that’s anticipated to take place as soon as 2023 or as late as 2025.
The Austin American-Statesman confirmed the report.
Texas has agreed in principal to play Texas Tech in an annual non-conference football game once UT leaves for the SEC, Tech AD Kirby Hocutt tells @AJ_DonWilliams. "We've spoken about a 20- to 25-year commitment."
— Brian Davis (@BDavisAAS) September 11, 2021
WHAT THE WISE MEN ARE SAYING ABOUT THE LONGHORNS
Austin American-Statesman: Hog wild: Arkansas throttles Texas 40-21 as Horns’ offense sputters
Austin American-Statesman: Third quarter stumbles cost Texas in its comeback attempt at Arkansas
Austin American-Statesman: How the Texas Longhorns graded out in their loss to Arkansas
Austin American-Statesman: Texas’ Sarkisian: ‘We’ve got to get back to the drawing board’
Austin American-Statesman: Bohls: Razorbacks show how Texas isn’t quite ready for the SEC yet
Dallas Morning News: Welcome to the league: Maybe there’s still time for Texas to rethink this whole SEC thing
Dallas Morning News: National reaction to Texas’ loss to Arkansas: Longhorns get harsh preview of life in SEC
Dallas Morning News: 5 takeaways from No. 15 Texas’ loss to Arkansas: Razorbacks dominate Longhorns on line of scrimmage
247Sports: Recap: No. 15 Texas bullied in humbling road loss to Arkansas, 40-21
247Sports: Pick Six: Texas program still has many unanswered questions: Recap: No. 15 Texas bullied in humbling road loss to Arkansas, 40-21
Inside Texas: Texas-Arkansas Postmortem: Offense
Inside Texas: Smelling Salts: Coming to after getting knocked out by Arkansas
Inside Texas: Texas-Arkansas Postmortem: Defense/special teams
Inside Texas: Texas Longhorns suffer their worst loss in five years
ICYMI IN BURNT ORANGE NATION
Texas drops out of AP Poll Top 25 following Arkansa loss
Steve Sarkisian’s honeymoon is over as Arkansas embarrasses No. 15 Texas, 40-21
Live Reaction: Texas falls to Arkansas 40-21
Initial thoughts from Texas’ 40-21 blowout loss to Arkansas
Texas unable to contain the Arkansas ground game: Post-game commiseration thread
No. 15 Texas vs. Arkansas: Game thread
RECRUITING ROUNDUP
247Sports: Four-star offensive lineman Harris Sewell projects to be an elite prize in 2023 class
247Sports: The Stampede: Class numbers, new faces out west and flip chances
BIG 12 BREAKDOWN
Our Daily Bears: Baylor blasts Texas Southern 66-7
Our Daily Bears: Twitter news and reactions to Big 12 adding BYU, UCF, Cincinnati, Houston
Viva the Matadors: Game Thread: Stephen F. Austin
Frogs O’ War: Quick Thoughts: Frogs squeak by Bears 34-32
Frogs O’ War: TCU 34, Cal 32: A win is a win
Crimson and Cream Machine: Oklahoma Sooners Football: OU blasts Western Carolina, 76-0
Crimson and Cream Machine: OU rises to No. 3 in AP Poll
Cowboys Ride For Free: Turnpike (too close) Classic
The Smoking Musket: West Virginia steamrolls LIU for first win of the season
The Smoking Musket: What I think after ‘dominating’ LIU
Wide Right & Natty Lite: Iowa State utterly embarrassed by Iowa
Bring On The Cats: K-State survives Southern Illinois 31-23
Rock Chalk Talk: A semi statistical recap of Coastal Carolina
WHAT WE’RE READING
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NEWS ACROSS THE FORTY ACRES AND BEYOND
- At least Texas isn’t the only Lone Star team trying to figure out its quarterback situation.
Texas A&M QB Haynes King exits game vs. Colorado with injury, replaced by Zach Calzada | #GigEm https://t.co/F3KafAAikE
— SportsDayDFW (@SportsDayDFW) September 11, 2021
- And speaking of quarterbacks, at least Casey Thompson had some wheels underneath him.
Casey Thompson is https://t.co/sWlcfLFBHK.done pic.twitter.com/CL0hsDDfdM
— Longhorn Network (@LonghornNetwork) September 12, 2021
- In other news, Urban Meyer had a rough day in his NFL debut.
Don't feel bad for Jags' Urban Meyer. This is what he wanted.https://t.co/qXtVIzmSyu
— Nancy Armour (@nrarmour) September 13, 2021