A Texas Tech booster claps back at Steve Sarkisian after the Texas coach fired at the Red Raiders
What a week for SEC coaches.
First, LSU’s new coach, Lane Kiffin, went on about the difficulty of SEC programs, then boasted about his easy non-conference schedules that gave him 20 free wins in five years. Surprisingly, Kiffin then said the SEC plays tight games late in the season, when he gave Ole Miss a free bye week in November by playing the Citadel.
Then Steve Sarkisian, who said undefeated teams were a thing of the past a few months before the Indiana Hoosiers went 16-0, took his chance at SEC superiority.
According to Anwar Richardson, the coach of the Texas Longhorns was speaking at The Touchdown Club in Houston this week and took the opportunity to criticize his Texas rival the Texas Red Raiders. “There is a team in our state that plays in another conference that has a schedule that I would oppose if I played two and three of us,” he said, “We can go undefeated, and they will probably enter the College Football Playoff this year.”
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Texas Longhorns head coach Steve Sarkisian rests during the second half against the Arkansas Razorbacks at Darrell K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium in Austin, Texas, Nov. 22, 2025. (Photos by Scott Wachter/Imagn)
I wonder who that could be, other than Texas Tech!
Someone else found it pretty obvious who Sarkisian was referring to, and took the opportunity to shoot the Longhorn coach and his athletic director. In a post on X, billionaire Texas Tech donor Cody Campbell got straight to the point.
“Let’s plan!” Campbell responded to a post about Sark’s comments. “We’ve been talking about it for years and we’re serious!!”
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It seems unlikely, especially considering Sark’s comments about planning after losing to Ohio State in 2025 and missing the playoffs. When the Longhorns, at 9-3, fell short of the tournament field, he explained that all future non-conference scheduling decisions are being reviewed.
“Yeah, you know, I think there are a few things, there are layers to this. I’ll be patient with my answer,” he explained to the media at the time. “First of all, we’re going to respect Ohio State and Michigan. You know, we went there, we went to Ann Arbor, we went to Columbus, and we’re going to respect those comebacks. So for the next two years, we know what our non-conference schedule is going to look like, and that’s what we have to do. We’ve made a commitment to play them. Now we’re going to have conversations about whether we’re going to honor them.
“We have to take a good look at what our non-conference schedule looks like after the next two years.”
Head coach Steve Sarkisian of the Texas Longhorns holds the Horns Up gesture as he enters Darrell K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium before the SEC football game against Texas A&M on Nov. 28, 2025, Austin, Texas. (David Buono/Icon Sportswire)
To be fair to Sark, no one would argue that Texas Tech has a stronger program than Texas. Even from far away near Texas. Especially in 2026. In fact, one ranked program has the Longhorns with the toughest schedule in the country. Obviously, that’s important, and it puts him and Texas in a very bad position.
Texas Tech’s schedule is weak to say the least:
- Abilene Christian
- at Oregon State
- Houston
- Sam Houston
- in Colorado
- Arizona State
- in Cincinnati
- In Arizona
- West Virginia
- at Oklahoma State
- at Baylor
- TCU
That said, the bottom team of the Big 12, Arizona State, arguably played Texas in the College Football Playoff a few years ago. Texas Tech is clearly trying to field strong teams, and is finding it difficult to do so. Scheduling is a two-way street, after all, and many other major programs may not want to risk a non-conference loss.
And the Longhorns played in the Big 12, until recently. As another user on X noted, they went 60-61 in conference play from 2010-2022. They’re a better program now than they were then, but the “we were undefeated in every other conference” act is getting pretty tiring. Especially since the SEC has struggled so much against other conferences in recent years. Specifically, given how Texas played last year.
They lost to 4-8 Florida, one of the worst Power 4 teams in the country. They beat Kentucky, another SEC opponent, 16-13 in overtime. They needed a miraculous fourth quarter comeback to get to overtime with a bad Mississippi State. They scored 27 points against UTEP in a 27-10 victory.
Texas Longhorns coach Steve Sarkisian looks on before a game against the Georgia Bulldogs at Sanford Stadium in Athens, Ga., on Nov. 15, 2025. (Brett Davis/Imagn Photos)
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At the end of the 2025 season, the advanced metric system SP+ had Texas at 13th power of schedule, and 16th best power of record. Texas Tech had a strong 45th schedule and third place record, because not only did they win games, they won them by default. Like beating a very good Utah team 34-10 on the road. Also managing a top-15 BYU team with a combined score of 63-14.
Still, Texas probably has the most expensive roster in college football. They are arguably the richest individual program in sports. No one will feel sorry for them. And with how tough their schedule is, they don’t need to go anywhere undefeated to make the playoffs anyway.
