{"id":448595,"date":"2026-09-26T16:18:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-26T16:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/448595\/"},"modified":"2026-09-26T16:18:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-26T16:18:08","slug":"did-texas-schedule-get-even-tougher-sec-gauntlet-awaits-longhorns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/448595\/","title":{"rendered":"Did Texas\u2019 Schedule Get Even Tougher? SEC Gauntlet Awaits Longhorns"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"sub-headline watch-truncate\" data-v-7521dc01=\"\">Texas entered the season facing a loaded schedule, but the Longhorns\u2019 path may have become even tougher.<br \/>\nJulian Martinez and Dennis de la Pe\u00f1a break down a nine-game SEC stretch featuring seven ranked opponents. Oklahoma and Arkansas are the only unranked teams in that stretch, while Tennessee, Ole Miss, LSU and others have climbed the rankings.<br \/>\nWith road trips to Tennessee, Missouri and Texas A&amp;M ahead, The Sports Office examines the gauntlet facing Texas and what potential losses could mean if the Longhorns finish 10-2.<\/p>\n<p>Posted\u00a0September 26, 2026 9:48am CDT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Texas entered the season facing a loaded schedule, but the Longhorns\u2019 path may have become even tougher. Julian&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":448596,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133],"class_list":["post-448595","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\/448595","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=448595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448595\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/448596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=448595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=448595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=448595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}