ASU football schedules home-and-home series with Stanford to replace Texas in 2032

Arizona State fans are not going to see a rematch of the 2025 Peach Bowl at the start of the new decade.

Sun Devil Source's Chris Karpman reported Tuesday that the University of Texas has asked to be released from its home-and-home series with ASU scheduled for the 2032 and 2033 regular seasons. Those games will not be made up at a later date.

Instead, the Sun Devils have seemingly replaced the Longhorns with a home-and-home series with former Pac-12 foe Stanford in 2031 and 2032.

The Devils and Cardinal last faced one another in 2022, a 15-14 Stanford victory. ASU leads the all-time series 17-16, however.

SEC's new nine-game conference schedule threatens ASU's future non-conference slate

Texas' cancellation is the second such abandonment by and SEC team ASU football has experienced in the last few months. Florida cancelled its 2028 and 2031 home-and-home series with the program in September. The Devils are scheduled to face the LSU Tigers in 2029 and 2030 but those contests also appear to be in jeopardy.

It's all likely due to the SEC making the decision to finally move to a standard nine-game conference schedule starting in 2026. Those members have to now sacrifice one of their four non-conference games and so far Texas and Florida decided ASU had to go.

That shouldn't be as much of an insult as some Sun Devil fans may take it. The SEC is desperate to have more and more teams in the College Football Playoff and moving to this scheduling format was a necessary concession despite commissioner Greg Sankey's previous groans.

Therefore, members will be searching for the path of least resistance. With Notre Dame being excluded from the current 12-team model with a 10-2 record, contenders like Texas aren't taking any chances. That means ASU is considered a significant threat even that far into the future.

College football non-conference opponents are scheduled absurdly far in advance so it wouldn't be surprising to see replacements for Florida and eventually LSU announced before the end of the calendar year.

Perhaps the Big Ten will take advantage and swoop in where its rival conference has pulled out. Although, no Big Ten team (pre-realignment) has ever won in Tempe.