Texas OG Laurance Seymore wins NCAA eligibility appeal

Steve Sarkisian and Kyle Flood received big news on Wednesday when Western Kentucky Hilltoppers transfer offensive guard Laurance Seymore secured his eligibility waiver from the NCAA to play a a final season of college football for the Texas Longhorns, according to Anwar Richardson of Orangebloods, ending a month and a half of uncertainty since the three-time transfer signed with the Horns. Major news out of Austin: Texas gets a big win up front – former WKU OL Laurence Seymore has won his NCAA appeal, sources tell me. He’s cleared for an extra year and will be on the field this spring.

pic. twitter. com/NhnezZshA6 — Anwar Richardson (@AnwarRichardson) March 18, 2026 As Seymore competes for the starting job at left guard, his availability for the remaining 12 spring practices is further good news for Texas after starting three different players at the position in 2025.

After the former Miami, Akron, and Western Kentucky offensive lineman signed with Texas, the school submitted a new eligibility waiver to regain the season of eligibility that Seymore when he transferred from the Hurricanes to the Zips for the 2023 season. “The NCAA has allowed us to re-submit that waiver with some new information in a way that makes his case really compelling. Nothing has been decided yet, so I’m hesitant to say I’m confident in much, but I do think that with us having the opportunity to submit that waiver with our people, with some of the information Laurance was able to supply us, and some of the previous universities that he was at, we’ll see where it goes,” Sarkisian said in February.

The 2026 season at Texas will cap a long collegiate journey that started when he signed with Miami as a member of the 2021 recruiting class out of Miami Central as a consensus four-star prospect ranked as the No. 183 overall prospect and the No. 11 interior offensive lineman, according to the 247Sports Composite rankings.