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Texas Longhorns 2017 football schedule

By John Buhler

Nov 5, 2016; Lubbock, TX, USA; University of Texas Longhorns quarterback Shane Buechele (7) passes against the Texas Tech Red Raiders in the first half at Jones AT&T Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Michael C. Johnson-USA TODAY Sports
Nov 5, 2016; Lubbock, TX, USA; University of Texas Longhorns quarterback Shane Buechele (7) passes against the Texas Tech Red Raiders in the first half at Jones AT&T Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Michael C. Johnson-USA TODAY Sports /
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Next season will be the first one that sees Tom Herman leading the Texas Longhorns football program. Here is the 2017 NCAA schedule for the Longhorns.

The Big 12 has announced its 2017 college football schedule. All 10 member institutions will be playing a nine-game Big 12 schedule, as has been the case since 2012.

Only this coming season, there will be a Big 12 Conference Championship Game on December 2nd at AT&T Stadium in Arlington. The teams with the two best records in the Big 12 will meet for this highly anticipated neutral site kickoff.

It will also be the first year of the Tom Herman era of Texas Longhorns football. Herman left the AAC’s Houston Cougars to replace Charlie Strong as the main man in Austin. How daunting is the Longhorns’ 2017 slate? Well, here it is:

  • September 2nd: Maryland Terrapins
  • September 9th: San José State Spartans
  • September 16th: at USC Trojans
  • September 23rd: OFF
  • September 30th: at Iowa State Cyclones
  • October 7th: Kansas State Wildcats
  • October 14th: Oklahoma Sooners (Cotton Bowl, Dallas)
  • October 21st: Oklahoma State Cowboys
  • October 28th: at Baylor Bears
  • November 4th: at TCU Horned Frogs
  • November 11th: Kansas Jayhawks
  • November 18th: at West Virginia Mountaineers
  • November 25th: Texas Tech Red Raiders
  • December 2nd: Big 12 Championship Game (AT&T Stadium, Arlington)

Texas did a remarkable job in getting two respectable Power 5 opponents in the non-conference in the Big Ten’s Maryland Terrapins and the Pac-12’s USC Trojans. The Longhorns get D.J. Durkin’s Terrapins at home on September 2nd to open the year but will have to play Clay Helton’s Trojans in Los Angeles in Week 3 on September 16th.

Texas will have its bye on September 23rd before beginning the nine-game Big 12 slate. The Longhorns will open on the road in Ames against the Iowa State Cyclones on September 30th.

After Iowa State, the Longhorns’ Big 12 schedule in October is absolutely brutal. Texas has to play Kansas State (October 7th), Oklahoma in the Red River Rivalry in Dallas (October 14th),  Oklahoma State (October 21st), and Baylor in Waco (October 28th).

Texas catches a break at the end of the Big 12 season with one game against a bowl-eligible team in 2016 in its last three: at West Virginia (November 28th). The Longhorns went 5-7 last season under Strong.

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Their games against USC, Oklahoma and Oklahoma State look like losses. Texas will probably drop a fourth game somewhere else along the way. The Longhorns could be as good as 9-3, but shouldn’t be worse that 6-6 in Herman’s first-year in Austin: an improvement over Strong’s dumpster fire of a 2016 NCAA campaign.

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