{"id":387329,"date":"2026-07-27T00:29:23","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T00:29:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/387329\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T00:29:23","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T00:29:23","slug":"texas-recruiting-shows-why-scheduling-big-non-conference-games-pays-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/387329\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Recruiting Shows Why Scheduling Big Non-Conference Games Pays Off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Article_fsEyebrow__SKd0C\">Inside Texas Football Recruiting<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"On3 image\" width=\"44\" height=\"44\" class=\"Article_fsAvatar__QeAUd\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Justin-Wells-1.jpg\"\/><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Steve Sarkisian\" width=\"795\" height=\"417\" class=\"Article_featuredimage__pxjlS\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Sark.jpeg\"\/>Nov 15, 2025; Athens, Georgia, USA; Texas Longhorns head coach Steve Sarkisian gestures after a game against the Georgia Bulldogs at Sanford Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Dale Zanine-Imagn Images<\/p>\n<p>Since the changes to the College Football Playoff and adding a ninth game to the SEC schedule, we&#8217;ve had an offseason full of fans clamoring to cancel the big, non-conference matchups we&#8217;ve become so used to seeing with the Texas Longhorns. But Steve Sarkisian might know something. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Inside Texas Football Recruiting Nov 15, 2025; Athens, Georgia, USA; Texas Longhorns head coach Steve Sarkisian gestures after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":387330,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[124701,136519,136520,136521,136522,136523,124708,136524,51938,124974,2379,9515,9516,27,29,28,29696,48650],"class_list":["post-387329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-andre-cojoe-23-mansfield-timberview","tag-brysen-wright-28-mandarin","tag-colton-vasek-23-westlake","tag-damarion-mays-28-north-crowley","tag-david-dotson-28-atascocita","tag-james-foster-iii-28-lancaster","tag-jaydon-chatman-23-harker-heights","tag-jaylen-addai-28-shadow-creek","tag-kobe-black-24-connally","tag-neimann-lawrence-28-american-heritage","tag-plus","tag-ryan-niblett-23-aldine-eisenhower","tag-steve-sarkisian-92-west","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-trevor-goosby-23-melissa","tag-zina-umeozulu-24-allen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=387329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387329\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/387330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}