One of college football’s upcoming marquee nonconference games might not get played after all.On Thursday during SEC media days, Texas head coach Steve Sarkisian was asked about the future of Longhorns scheduling as the league moves to a nine-game slate. As other teams pull back on nonconference games, Texas may follow the trend of programs looking to soften their slates to increase their chances of making the College Football Playoff field.That could mean the scrapping of a home-and-home series with Notre Dame, scheduled to be played in South Bend in 2028 and back in Austin in 2029.“I don’t know yet about Notre Dame,” Sarkisian said. “We’ll see, because I think the (CFP selection) committee has to show us what happens now and what’s the value that they’re placing on strength of schedule and are we going to let a 9-3 team in as an at-large? We’ll find out, and I think this year will be a great test to that of what that looks like.”Sarkisian campaigned for Texas to make last year’s 12-team Playoff at 9-3, with an opening-week loss at Ohio State plus two SEC losses: a blowout at Georgia and a loss to a Florida team that finished 4-8 and fired its coaching staff. Texas also notched marquee wins against Texas A&M, Oklahoma and Vanderbilt, finishing No. 13 in the CFP rankings, behind No. 11 Notre Dame — the first team left out — and No. 12 BYU. Texas was the highest ranked three-loss team after the regular season and finished ahead of two-loss Vanderbilt and Utah.If the CFP doesn’t expand, the nonconference scheduling angst may persist in the SEC and Big Ten. Both conferences play nine conference games, and the SEC has taken it a step further by mandating teams play one Power 4 opponent in their nonconference slates. While that would seem to save the Notre Dame series — athletic director Pete Bevacqua told The Athletic at ACC spring meetings that the series with Texas would be played — Texas may see the degree of difficult being too high to keep it.