No. 1 Softball announces 2025 regular season schedule

[Blake Munroe]

AUSTIN, Texas – Eight months after appearing in the championship series of the Women's College World Series for the second time in the last three seasons, The University of Texas softball program will begin a historic campaign on Friday, Feb. 7 as Longhorn softball head coach Mike White announced Thursday UT's 2025 regular season schedule.

2025 will mark the first season for Texas, which was selected as the No. 1 team in the ESPN.com/USA Softball Collegiate Top 25 preseason rankings, in the Southeastern Conference (SEC) after the Longhorns arrived in the league on July 1, 2024. UT concluded its stay in the Big 12 Conference by posting a 23-4 record in league play en route to winning the Big 12's regular season championship after winning its last 14 consecutive regular season conference games. White's squad also appeared in the Phillips 66 Big 12 Softball Championship game after knocking off both Texas Tech and Baylor in five innings, respectively.

Texas will open its new season on Friday, Feb. 7 in Lafayette, La., where the Longhorns will take on Longwood and Louisiana as part of the Louisiana Classic hosted by the Ragin' Cajuns. The next day, UT will travel to Beaumont, Texas to St. Johns and Lamar in a tournament co-hosted by Houston and Lamar. On Sunday, Feb. 9, Texas will conclude its three-city-in-three-day road trip with a stop in Huntsville, Texas to play Tulsa and Sam Houston in the Bearkat Classic.

The Bevo Classic will await Texas the following weekend as the Longhorns will play Maryland, Texas Tech and UMass over a three-day span beginning on Friday, Feb. 14 and concluding on Sunday, Feb. 16. A quick mid-week game against Akron on Wednesday, Feb. 19 precedes a weekend trip to Tucson, Arizona, where UT will play Stanford, Colorado State, UC Davis and Arizona between Friday, Feb. 21 and Sunday, Feb. 23 in the Hillenbrand Invitational.

The following weekend begins the Longhorn Invitational that welcomes South Florida, Abilene Christian, New Mexico State and Alabama A&M to the Forty Acres for a three-day tournament beginning on Friday, Feb. 28 and concluding on Sunday, March 2.

Texas will then welcome former conference foe Baylor to Red & Charline McCombs Field on Wednesday, March 5, before, again, hitting the road for a three-day tournament in Columbus, Ohio as part of the Ohio State Invitational. During their weekend in Ohio, the Longhorns will play St. Francis, Oakland, Merrimack, Dayton and Ohio State.

Saturday, March 15 marks the first-ever SEC series for Texas as the Longhorns travel to Gainesville, Fla., to play Florida. The first home conference series for UT is slated to begin on Friday, March 21, when Texas plays Auburn. Following a mid-week contest against SFA on Tuesday, March 25, the Longhorns begin a six-game road slate with a three-game conference series at Mississippi State (3/28 – 3/30) and Missouri (4/4 – 4/6).

A season-long seven-game homestand begins on Wednesday, April 9, when Texas State travels up I-35 before Tennessee (4/11 – 4/13) and LSU (4/17 – 4/19) arrive in town as well. One last regular season road trip awaits the Longhorns to close out April as Texas travels north to play Oklahoma State in Stillwater on Wednesday, April 23, before facing Oklahoma in Norman (4/25 – 4/27). A three-game series against Kentucky (5/1 – 5/3) is slated to round out UT's regular season, before the SEC Tournament begins on Tuesday, May 6 in Athens, Ga.

[Blake Munroe]