Auburn football’s all-time record against new SEC members Texas and Oklahoma

Auburn football head-to-head record against Texas Longhorns: 3-5

Anyone that has ever been on the Plains can tell you that there are more Texas license plates here than any other state (besides Alabama, of course) so it’s strange that there hasn’t been more of an effort towards getting these two schools together on the schedule.

Obviously, the Tigers have their hands full year in and year out with another Lone Star State team in Texas A&M since the Aggies joined the SEC themselves in 2012. That said, few would argue that the burnt orange and orange and blue don’t belong opposite each other on a college football gameday showcase.

The last time these two teams played was almost 30 years ago on September 21st, 1991. Pat Dye’s Tigers–who finished the season with a 5-6 record after starting off ranked the first six weeks of the season–ended up on the right side of a 14-10 defensive battle against a David McWilliams coached Longhorns squad that finished the season with the same record in the now defunct Southwest Conference.

Before that, the two teams met in 1987, where the Tigers blased Texas 31-3 at Jordan-Hare Stadium. That Dye-coached team lost just once that year (to Berryman’s 1987 national champion Florida State) and finished the season tying a then-dominant Syracuse Orange in the Sugar Bowl 16-16 as the #6th-ranked team.

UT took the pair’s home-and-home series in 1983-84, and the Tigers won their lone matchup in the 1970’s in Jacksonville, Florida in 1974. The Longhorns triumphed in their first three matchups from 1910-1925.