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Game Notes

Texas hosts Arkansas on Saturday, November 21, 2026 in Austin. The SEC has assigned an afternoon window of roughly 2:30 to 3:30 p.m. CT; the exact time and network had not been announced as of late July 2026. Arkansas is one of Texas’s protected annual SEC opponents for the 2026–29 cycle, along with Oklahoma and Texas A&M.

Arkansas at Texas: A Look at the 2026 Matchup at Darrell K Royal–Texas Memorial Stadium

Game Details

• Date: Saturday, November 21, 2026
• Kickoff: Afternoon window (2:30–3:30 p.m. CT) — exact time not yet announced
• TV: To be announced
• Venue: Darrell K Royal–Texas Memorial Stadium, Austin, TX
• Address: 405 E. 23rd Street, Austin, TX 78712
• Capacity: 100,119

Series History

Texas leads the all-time series 58–23 across 81 meetings with no ties — the deepest series on this list outside the Red River Rivalry itself, built over decades in the Southwest Conference.

The defining game came on December 6, 1969 in Fayetteville, when No. 1 Texas beat No. 2 Arkansas 15–14 in a game billed as the Big Shootout and remembered as the Game of the Century. Both teams were 9–0. President Richard Nixon attended and presented Texas with a plaque declaring them national champions. Texas finished 11–0 after beating Notre Dame in the Cotton Bowl for its second consensus national title.

Arkansas won a pivotal meeting in Austin in October 1964, 14–13, on the way to an 11–0 season and the Football Writers’ national championship.

In the modern era, since Arkansas left the Southwest Conference in 1991, Texas leads 4–3. The most recent meeting was November 22, 2025 in Austin, where No. 17 Texas won 52–37 — Arkansas’s ninth straight loss of that season.

What Sets This Matchup Apart

Arkansas is rebuilding. The Razorbacks went 2–10 in 2025 and 0–8 in the SEC, a winning percentage that tied the lowest in program history. Sam Pittman was fired in September after five games and Bobby Petrino finished the year as interim.

Ryan Silverfield was hired from Memphis on November 30, 2025 and enters his first season, bringing defensive coordinator Ron Roberts and signing more than twenty defensive transfers after a 2025 season in which the offense was competitive and the defense was not. The SEC media poll picked Arkansas last at 16th.

Texas hosting Arkansas in both 2025 and 2026 is an unusual back-to-back in the series but is confirmed on both schedules.

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Seating and Ticket Notes

This should be one of the most affordable games on Texas’s 2026 home schedule. Arkansas is coming off a two-win season and enters with a first-year head coach, and a late-November afternoon game against a rebuilding opponent typically sits well below the roughly $261 season average get-in that Vivid Seats listed for Texas home games in July 2026.

If the goal is to see DKR at a reasonable price, this and the September non-conference dates are the value on the calendar. Arkansas travels well, so expect a visible Razorback presence in the upper end zone sections.

Atmosphere and Traditions

Darrell K Royal–Texas Memorial Stadium opened in 1924 and holds 100,119, seventh-largest in the country. The record crowd is 105,215, set against Georgia in October 2024. Bevo is on the field for home games and “The Eyes of Texas” closes every game.

Late November in Austin is comfortable — afternoon highs typically in the sixties or low seventies.

Final Thoughts

An annual protected SEC matchup with more than eighty meetings of history behind it, including one of the most famous games ever played. On current form it should also be one of the better-value tickets at DKR in 2026.

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