College football is potentially getting robbed of two huge games involving Texas QB Arch Manning

College football is potentially getting robbed of two massive games involving Texas Longhorns quarterback Arch Manning. 

And it's a bummer. 

If Arch is as advertised, he could be off to the NFL after the 2025 season. It's certainly possible he sticks around through the 2026 season. But if he quickly reaches his ceiling at Texas, the NFL draft could come calling after 2025.

(Note: Arch will enter the 2024 season as Quinn Ewers' backup before presumably taking over as the starter at Texas in 2025. But just because Arch isn't entering the 2024 season as the starter doesn't mean his number won't be called this fall...you never know how quarterback situations will play out.)

If that's the case, college football fans will miss out on a couple of games involving Arch that would've generated an endless amount of hype. 

Last week, the SEC announced each program's opponents for the 2025 season. The SEC is sticking with an eight game schedule for the 2025 season. Each team will play the same SEC opponents that they're set to play in 2024 (the home and away matchups will be flipped). 

That means that in 2024 and 2025, the first two years that Texas is in the SEC, the Longhorns won't play Ole Miss or Tennessee -- two programs that Arch is quite familiar with. 

Ole Miss is where most of Arch's family attended college. His dad, Cooper, his uncle, Eli, and his grandparents, Archie and Olivia, all attended Ole Miss.

If Arch goes pro after the 2025 season, it means the Mannings will never get to see him play against the Rebels. Maybe they're breathing a sigh of relief because it would be reminiscent of when Peyton played against Ole Miss in the 90s. It's one less thing for the Mannings to stress about. 

But for the rest of college football, it robs the sport of a fun matchup.