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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 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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– 2021 Big 12 Football Schedule
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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Shortly after the schedule release, Longhorns Wire staff members choose their records predictions for Texas’ 2021 football season.
The full Texas football schedule was released on Thursday. Continue reading “Longhorns Wire Roundtable: Texas football schedule release, record predictions”
Big 12 football schedule 2021 composite. Week by week ranking of all of the games.
Big 12 football schedule 2021 composite. Week by week ranking of all of the games.
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Each week’s games ranking from most interesting to least.
Saturday, September 4
Kansas State vs. Stanford (in Arlington)
West Virginia at Maryland
Texas Tech vs. Houston (at NRG Stadium)
Louisiana at Texas
Oklahoma at Tulane
Baylor at Texas State
Northern Iowa at Iowa State
Missouri State at Oklahoma State
South Dakota at Kansas
Duquesne at TCU
Saturday, September 11
Iowa at Iowa State
Texas at Arkansas
Virginia Tech at West Virginia
California at TCU
Virginia Tech at West Virginia
Tulsa at Oklahoma State
Kansas at Coastal Carolina
Southern Illinois at Kansas State
Stephen F. Austin at Texas Tech
Texas Southern at Baylor
Western Carolina at Oklahoma
Long Island at West Virginia
Saturday, September 18
Nebraska at Oklahoma
Oklahoma State at Boise State
Baylor at Kansas
Nevada at Kansas State
Rice at Texas
FIU at Texas Tech
Iowa State at UNLV
Saturday, September 25
West Virginia at Oklahoma
Kansas State at Oklahoma State
Texas Tech at Texas
Iowa State at Baylor
SMU at TCU
Kansas at Duke
Saturday, October 2
Texas at TCU
Oklahoma at Kansas State
Texas Tech at West Virginia
Baylor at Oklahoma State
Kansas at Iowa State
Saturday, October 9
Oklahoma vs. Texas (in Dallas)
TCU at Texas Tech
West Virginia at Baylor
Saturday, October 16
Oklahoma State at Texas
TCU at Oklahoma
Iowa State at Kansas State
BYU at Baylor
Texas Tech at Kansas
Saturday, October 23
Oklahoma State at Iowa State
West Virginia at TCU
Kansas State at Texas Tech
Oklahoma at Kansas
Saturday, October 30
Iowa State at West Virginia
TCU at Kansas State
Texas Tech at Oklahoma
Texas at Baylor
Kansas at Oklahoma State
Saturday, November 6
Texas at Iowa State
Oklahoma State at West Virginia
Baylor at TCU
Kansas State at Kansas
Saturday, November 13
TCU at Oklahoma State
West Virginia at Kansas State
Iowa State at Texas Tech
Oklahoma at Baylor
Kansas at Texas
Saturday, November 20
Iowa State at Oklahoma
Texas at West Virginia
Baylor at Kansas State
Oklahoma State at Texas Tech
Kansas at TCU
Saturday, November 27
Oklahoma at Oklahoma State
Kansas State at Texas
TCU at Iowa State
Texas Tech at Baylor
West Virginia at Kansas
Saturday, December 4
Big 12 Championship Game (in Arlington)
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Longhorns Wire staff members discuss what they’d like to see from Texas in the final two regular-season games.
Let’s look at the optimistic side of things today. Continue reading “Longhorns Wire Roundtable: What would you like to see from Texas in final two games?”
Texas will now have three weeks off before facing the toughest conference opponent left on their schedule.
The Big 12 Conference announced on Wednesday that the game between Texas and Kansas on Nov. 21 would be postponed to Dec. 12. Continue reading “How the Kansas postponement benefits Texas’ schedule”
Breaking down the three areas that the Texas Longhorns need to improve in the final stretch of the 2020 College Football Season.
Seven games are now in the books for the Texas Longhorns. Only Kansas, Iowa State and Kansas State remain on the schedule. The football team isn’t where maybe they thought they would, when I did the preseason predictions to this point in the season they were projected to be 6-1. Only a game off but the loss was thought to come against Oklahoma State and not on back-to-back weekends against Texas Christian and Oklahoma.
The Mike Yurcich offense was supposed to enhance the level of play by quarterback Sam Ehlinger. While it looked promising early on, he has since cooled off a bit. Could it be that he is missing his top two receivers from last year? Perhaps. Could it be that he isn’t healthy? Well there is that too. Or could it be that we are seeing a regression? All of these could be true. It is one area of improvement needed.
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Texas has to take it one game at a time as cliché as that sounds. It will all start against the Jayhawks on Nov. 21 in Lawrence. Once that game is out of the way, the team will have just six days to get ready for their last home game of the season against Iowa State. Let’s not get ahead of ourselves, here are the three things that the Longhorns need to do in their final three games.
Texas is coming off of a monster win at Oklahoma State, but they’re now preparing to face one of the best defensive units in the country.
To realistically have a chance to compete for the Big 12 title, Texas must win the final four games on their schedule. Continue reading “Texas vs. West Virginia: Who are the experts predicting to win?”
Texas at Oklahoma State will kick off at 3 p.m. CDT on FOX in Week 8.
Texas will be traveling to face Oklahoma State on Halloween. Continue reading “Big 12 Football: Week 8 game times officially announced”
Social media buzz, predictions and hype surrounding Texas vs. Texas Tech.
Texas begins Big 12 conference play at Texas Tech on Sept. 26 at 2:30 pm CDT. Continue reading “Social media hype, buzz ahead of Texas’ conference opener at Texas Tech”
