The Texas Longhorns and the USC Trojans have joined the Nebraska Cornhuskers in canceling their spring football game.

As the line keeps blurring between major college football and the NFL, and de facto free agency (the NCAA transfer portal) persists at the collegiate level, spring games — if not spring practices — have joined walk-ons and wing-T formations on the sport’s endangered list.

AUSTIN — Texas announced Thursday that it will not hold a spring football game for the first time in head coach Steve Sarkisian’s four-year Longhorn tenure. Sarkisian made the announcement on a football podcast and cited the wear and tear of two consecutive long seasons as the reason for the cancellation.