diff --git a/google-cloud-pubsub/acceptance/pubsub/schema_test.rb b/google-cloud-pubsub/acceptance/pubsub/schema_test.rb
index 8f11c24cbbe4..739648be7ef7 100644
--- a/google-cloud-pubsub/acceptance/pubsub/schema_test.rb
+++ b/google-cloud-pubsub/acceptance/pubsub/schema_test.rb
@@ -139,16 +139,5 @@
       schema.nil?
     end
     _(schema).must_be :nil?
-
-    wait_for_condition description: "topic deleted schema_name" do
-      topic = pubsub.topic topic.name
-      topic.schema_name == "_deleted-schema_"
-    end
-    _(topic.schema_name).must_equal "_deleted-schema_"
-    _(topic.message_encoding).must_equal :BINARY
-
-    expect do 
-      pubsub.create_topic topic_name_2, schema_name: schema_name, message_encoding: :binary
-    end.must_raise Google::Cloud::NotFoundError
   end
 end