Kickoff Times and Windows, Location Breakdown for 2025 Texas Longhorns Football Games

Recently the SEC announced the kickoff times and windows in which games for the upcoming season will be played. Here is a time and location breakdown for Texas’ 2025 football season.

Home games

• Week 2: San Jose State at 11 AM CT on ABC or ESPN
• Week 3: UTEP at 3:15 PM CT on SEC Network
• Week 4: Sam Houston at 7 PM CT on ESPN+ and SEC Network+
• Week 10: Vanderbilt at 11 AM CT on ABC or ESPN
• Week 12: Arkansas at 2:30-3:30 PM CT or 5-7 PM CT on a network TBA
• Week 13: Texas A&M at 6:30 PM CT on ABC or ESPN

Aside from week one, the Longhorns will get to spend the first half of the season getting comfortable at home against teams with inferior talent.

Those first few weeks at home, regardless of the Ohio State outcome, will allow Texas to build its chemistry in games that should likely end in a blowout before SEC play begins.

When the Longhorns arrive back in Austin in week 10, complete comfortability against almost every level of talent in a diverse range of environments should have been established.

After six weeks away from home, all 100,119 fans in DKR should be in the stands getting rowdy at the games against Vanderbilt, Arkansas, and especially Texas A&M.

The Aggies gave Texas a tough game in College Station last year, and with an upgraded roster and standout quarterback Marcel Reed back for his sophomore year, A&M has the chance to put Texas in a very similar situation to what it was in last year.

The home crowd environment will need to help give Texas an upper hand in its three matchups and two rivalry games that will be played to round out the season for the Longhorns.

Away games

• Week 1: Ohio State at 11 AM CT on FOX
• Week 6: Florida at 2:30-3:30 PM CT or 5-7 PM CT on a network TBA
• Week 8: Kentucky at 5-7 PM CT on a network TBA
• Week 9: Mississippi State at 2:30-3:30 PM CT or 5-7 PM CT on a network TBA
• Week 11: Georgia at 2:30-3:30 PM CT or 5-7 PM CT on a network TBA

The two biggest matchups of the season for Texas will both be played away from home, giving the Longhorns the opportunity to prove they can compete anywhere they need to.

Week onje will begin in Columbus, and Texas will be itching for revenge after a devastating 28-14 loss to the Buckeyes in the semifinals of the College Football Playoff.

Texas wasn’t far off from a win in the Cotton Bowl; however, a strip sack on the goal line by Ohio State’s Jack Sawyer on Quinn Ewers allowed a scoop and score to build the Buckeyes’ 28-14 lead.

The game at Ohio State will be an early one at 11 AM CT, providing a slight upside in the fact that Texas will not be in The Shoe for a primetime night game, but that is not to say that Ohio State fans won’t still keep the stadium rocking at capacity.

Texas will then begin SEC play in The Swamp, not the ideal location for the first game of conference competition for the Longhorns.

The Longhorns prevailed last year in Austin, but now have to take on a Gators team led by quarterback DJ Lagway in a possible night game in Gainesville.

Two weeks later, the Longhorns will begin a two week road trip to face Kentucky and Mississippi State in what could potentially both be night games as well.

Both teams could potentially put decent crowds together to attempt to mess with the minds of the Longhorns; however, after games at Ohio State and Florida, these games should be relatively easier to navigate in terms of both atmosphere and competition.

It doesn’t get any easier on the road from there. Two weeks later Texas has to make the trip to Athens to face the Bulldogs, a team Texas lost to twice last year.

There are two upsides to this game, though. First, Texas has a bye week before the game, while Georgia does not. Secondly, the game is scheduled for a flex time. Flex time is not inherently a good thing, as it could end up being a primetime matchup in Athens. But the same goes to say, it could also end up being an afternoon game.

Now, time doesn’t exactly make a huge difference, but primetime could easily increase the aggressive atmosphere that the Bulldogs can already create.