2024 Texas Longhorns football team

The 2024 Texas Longhorns football team will represent the University of Texas at Austin in the Southeastern Conference (SEC) during the 2024 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Longhorns will be led by fourth-year head coach Steve Sarkisian and will play its home games at Darrell K Royal–Texas Memorial Stadium in Austin, Texas. The 2024 season will be the Longhorns' first season as members of the SEC.

Outgoing transfers
Note: Players with a dash in the new school column didn't land on a new team for the 2024 season.

NFL Draft Combine
† Top performer

DNP = Did not participate

Returning starters
The Longhorns return 14 starters from the previous season. They return 6 on offense, 5 on defense, and 3 on special teams. Offense

Defense

Special Teams

Award watch lists
Listed in the order that they were released

Preseason SEC awards
2024 Preseason All-SEC teams First Team

Second Team

Third Team

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Roster
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Schedule
The 2024 season's out-of-conference opponents represent the AAC, Big Ten, Mountain West and the Sun Belt. The Longhorns will host three of their four non-conference games which are against Colorado State from the Mountain West, Louisiana–Monroe from the Sun Belt, and UTSA from the AAC. The Longhorns will travel to Michigan. Texas' season opener against Colorado State – the second meeting between the two teams – was agreed upon in 2019, with Colorado State to receive a $1.8 million payout as part of the contract for the matchup. The game at Michigan is part of a home-and-home series initially announced in 2014, though in 2023 the programs agreed to switch the order of locations such that the match would be played at Michigan Stadium in 2024 and Darrell K Royal–Texas Memorial Stadium in 2027. In 2019, Texas scheduled home-only games against UTSA and UTEP for 2024–2031, to be played in alternating years. Texas's final regular season non-conference game for 2023, against Louisiana–Monroe, will be the first of two home games for Texas; their second game is scheduled for 2029. A home-and-home series formerly scheduled with South Florida for 2020 and 2024 was canceled following additions to Texas's 2024 non-conference slate.

Texas' 2024 schedule consists of seven home games and four away games, along with one neutral site game for the regular season. Texas and the SEC announced the conference's 2024 football schedule on December 13, 2023. Texas will host four SEC conference opponents Florida, Georgia, Kentucky and Mississippi State at home and will travel to four SEC opponents, Arkansas (rivalry), Texas A&M (rivalry) and Vanderbilt to close out the SEC regular season on the road. The Longhorns will face Oklahoma in Dallas at the Cotton Bowl. The team will have bye weeks in week 6 and 10 (October 5 and November 2, respectively).

At Colorado State

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At Michigan

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At UTSA

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At Louisiana-Monroe

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At Mississippi State

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At Oklahoma

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At Georgia

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At Vanderbilt

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At Florida

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At Arkansas

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At Kentucky

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At Texas A&M

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Defense
Key: POS: Position, SOLO: Solo Tackles, AST: Assisted Tackles, TOT: Total Tackles, TFL: Tackles-for-loss, SACK: Quarterback Sacks, INT: Interceptions, BU: Passes Broken Up, PD: Passes Defended, QBH: Quarterback Hits, FR: Fumbles Recovered, FF: Forced Fumbles, BLK: Kicks or Punts Blocked, SAF: Safeties, TD : Touchdown