{"id":441609,"date":"2026-09-20T03:00:37","date_gmt":"2026-09-20T03:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/441609\/"},"modified":"2026-09-20T03:00:37","modified_gmt":"2026-09-20T03:00:37","slug":"ut-football-utsas-jeff-traylor-wants-out-of-series-vs-longhorns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/441609\/","title":{"rendered":"UT football: UTSA’s Jeff Traylor wants out of series vs. Longhorns"},"content":{"rendered":"

AUSTIN \u2014 The UTSA Roadrunners play Texas on Saturday night<\/a> at Royal-Memorial Stadium and will take a $1.7 million paycheck home with them.<\/p>\n

Not that UTSA head coach Jeff Traylor has to like it, given his 2-0 team is more than a 30-point underdog.<\/p>\n

In fact, if it were up to the seventh-year head coach, he\u2019d never play Steve Sarkisian\u2019s Longhorns<\/a> again.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s not possible because the Roadrunners are scheduled to face Texas two more times in 2028 and 2030.<\/p>\n

They will come back to Austin on Sept. 16 in 2028 a week after Texas will travel to Notre Dame, assuming that game against the Irish isn\u2019t canceled after concerns about a rugged intersectional game hurting teams\u2019 College Football Playoff chances. UTSA will be paid $1.8 million for that game.<\/p>\n

UTSA is also scheduled to play at DKR on Sept. 14 in 2030, which is currently the only game remaining on the Longhorns\u2019 future schedule, and receive $1.9 million.<\/p>\n

\u201cI mean, it\u2019s not smart,\u201d Traylor said Wednesday about playing No. 1 Texas in an interview for the \u201cOn Second Thought\u201d podcast. \u201cWe need to get out of that deal, Sark. Let\u2019s go. Free us, Sark. Free us.\u201d<\/p>\n

When it was suggested that Traylor might attract a few recruits to his San Antonio program with such an enticing game on the schedule, he scoffed.<\/p>\n

\u201cDoesn\u2019t work that way,\u201d he said. \u201cYou\u2019re still living in the naive dream world. Those guys are gone, Bubba. I used to be that guy. I\u2019m not that guy anymore.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUSTIN \u2014 The UTSA Roadrunners play Texas on Saturday night at Royal-Memorial Stadium and will take a $1.7…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":441610,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133],"class_list":["post-441609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441609","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=441609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441609\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/441610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=441609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=441609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=441609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}