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Texas Football: Five most important games of the season

Despite what coaches will tell you on a week to week basis, some games are going to be viewed as more important than others.

For most first-year head coaches, the pressure is taken off with low expectations.

Attempting to rebuild college football programs is a long winded process and takes a lot of time. For Steve Sarkisian and Texas, there are no low expectations. Wins are wanted by fans, staff, and administration and they are wanted right away. Anything less than eight or nine wins would be viewed as a failure.

With the schedule back to normal, the Longhorns will be playing three nonconference and nine Big 12 games. Looking up and down the calendar, there are plenty of matchups to circle.

Despite what coaches will tell you on a week to week basis, some games are going to be viewed as more important than others. The wins will feel better than most, while the losses will be soul-crushing.

Here are the five most important games on Texas’ schedule this season:

Game-by-game predictions for the Texas Longhorns 2021 football schedule

Longhorns Wire contributor Shane Carter predicts every Texas football game on the 2021 schedule.

After a COVID-19 stricken season, the Texas Longhorns had an up and down year in 2020. Continue reading “Game-by-game predictions for the Texas Longhorns 2021 football schedule”

Texas Football Schedule 2021, Analysis, Best & Worst Case Scenario

Texas Longhorns 2021 football schedule, analysis, and best and worst case scenarios.

Texas Longhorns 2021 football schedule, analysis, and best and worst case scenarios.

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Texas Longhorns Football Schedule 2021

– 2021 Big 12 Football Schedule

Sept. 4 Louisiana

Sept. 11 at Arkansas

Sept. 18 Rice

Sept. 25 Texas Tech

Oct. 2 at TCU

Oct. 9 Oklahoma (in Dallas)

Oct. 16 Oklahoma State

Oct. 23 OPEN DATE

Oct. 30 at Baylor

Nov. 6 at Iowa State

Nov. 13 Kansas

Nov. 20 at West Virginia

Nov. 27 Kansas State

Texas Football Schedule Analysis: It’s not all that easy a non-conference schedule, but it Texas really is good enough to even think about being Big 12 Championship-good and possibly in the mix for the College Football Playoff, it has to take out a nasty Louisiana team, win at Arkansas, and complete the Southwest Conference two-step with Rice to follow.

Technically, with Texas Tech and TCU to open the Big 12 season, the Longhorns have a run of four straight games against old Southwest Conference teams. There’s run of four games in five away from Austin, but there’s a there’s a week off before dealing with a trip to Baylor.

Making matters worse, that means the dates with Texas, Oklahoma – as always – and Iowa State are away from home, and getting Kansas and Texas Tech in Austin isn’t that much of a help.

Texas Football Schedule Best Case Scenario: Steve Sarkisian’s team goes on a run over the first half of the season, and that includes a win at Arkansas and taking out TCU and Oklahoma before getting Oklahoma State at home.

Realistically there’s at least one gaffe along the way, but in a best case scenario, there’s just one loss on the way to a Big 12 Championship appearance.

Texas Football Schedule Worst Case Scenario: The Longhorns are shocked by Arkansas on the road and lose the Big 12 opener at TCU to end any hopes of this being a big, splashy debut to the Sarkisian era.

A loss to Oklahoma makes it a total disaster of a campaign before mid-october, and dropping two more dates along the way – like at Iowa State and maybe to Oklahoma State or at West Virginia – to put the pressure on for 2022.

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