ESPN's Greg McElroy Reveals Texas Longhorns' Top 2024 Conference Games To Watch

The Texas Longhorns will renew a rivalry and face a potential back-to-back-to-back national champion in Southeastern Conference play in 2024.

The Texas Longhorns will have one more season enjoying the Big 12, but then it will just mean more.

Texas will make the transition to the Southeastern Conference for the 2024 season, and it already knows which opponents it will face in its inaugural season in the league. The two games for the Longhorns that ESPN's Greg McElroy likes the most, though, are their matchups against Texas A&M and Georgia.

"I grew up a Big 12 guy. In the backyard was Texas and Oklahoma, but right there next door was Texas and Texas A&M," McElroy said during the schedule reveal on "SEC Now" Wednesday. "The amount of vitriol that exists in that rivalry in both directions, knowing it's coming back for the first time since 2011. And I'm sure Aggie faithful, being as kind as they are, will have a nice warm reception for their Longhorn brethren when they enter into Kyle Field. Hopefully, sometime around Thanksgiving.

"Love that Georgia's going there as well. Obviously, Texas has had a taste of Alabama, not just last year but this year as well. So it's, I think, only appropriate to welcome them into the league by showing off the very best that we have to offer as a league. So, it'll be a good litmus test for the Longhorns and the Sooners as they make this leap."

The location of the Longhorns' long-awaited renewal of the "Lone Star Showdown" was highly debated, but Texas A&M athletics director Ross Bjork made it clear he wanted to play Texas as soon as possible with the game being in College Station.

The last time the two schools played, former kicker Justin Tucker drilled a 40-yard game-winning field goal to beat the Aggies, who moved to the SEC the next season.

Meanwhile, Texas will play Georgia since the 2019 Allstate Sugar Bowl, which was arguably one of the biggest wins in Longhorns' recent history.

Texas holds an all-time 4-1 advantage over the Bulldogs, and the showdown in 2024 could be between a few up-and-coming stars in quarterbacks Longhorns' Arch Manning and Georgia's Dylan Raiola.

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