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Texas football is far removed from the Big 12 Conference. But the Longhorns still found a way to pluck a past rival coach for their own coaching staff. Head coach Steve Sarkisian is bringing in one of the more talented assistants across the nation. The Southeastern Conference runner-up ‘Horns will soon add Chad Scott from […]

Johntay Cook’s eventful summer continues to get worse with another arrest. Roughly three months after he left Texas and one month after he committed to Washington from the college football transfer portal, Cook was arrested for the second time in as many weeks. Ten days after he was arrested for theft, Cook was booked for […]

Texas football and Steve Sarkisian needed to find an immediate defensive assistant replacement. Blake Gideon is off to Georgia Tech, but “Coach Sark” now has Gideon’s replacement coming in. Texas is luring in Rutgers cornerbacks coach Mark Orphey to replace the former safeties coach, per Anwar Richardson of Orangebloods. “According to my sources, Texas football […]

The 2025 recruiting cycle wrapped up last week with National Signing Day, and the Texas football team ended up finishing with the best class in the country. The Longhorns have a ridiculously talented class coming in that includes five five-star commits, 14 four-stars and six three-stars. Landing even one five-star recruit is difficult as there […]

Texas football just added a preferred walk-on commitment to add more depth to the quarterback room. The Longhorns are preparing for a highly anticipated 2025 season, which will feature Arch Manning under center. Steve Sarkisian has fully rebuilt this program, which is coming off a second straight appearance in the College Football Playoff semifinals. The […]

Former Texas Longhorns wide receiver Xavier Worthy represented his alma mater in the Super Bowl with pride on Sunday night. And he showed it by making history for the program. It happened during the third quarter of Super Bowl 59, which saw the Kansas City Chiefs down 34-0 to the Philadelphia Eagles. He caught a […]

With a few days left until the Kansas City Chiefs and Philadelphia Eagles face off in Super Bowl LIX, the media tour within the NFL continued on Friday, with Diana Russini meeting with Houston Texans edge rusher Will Anderson Jr. In their conversation, Russini was curious about how Anderson was gifted the nickname The Terminator. However, […]

Texas football took two losses to Georgia during the Longhorns’ first season in the Southeastern Conference. But Texas delivered a massive recruiting win by flipping Justus Terry from the Bulldogs. How were the Longhorns able to pull it off? Recruiting insiders Keegan Pope and Chad Simmons of On3.com unveiled what really went down. Terry earned […]

Wednesday is National Signing Day for the 2025 recruiting class, but the Texas football team made a splash in the 2026 class instead. Three-star offensive tackle Max Wright announced his commitment to the Longhorns as he picked Texas over Michigan, SMU and others. He holds an impressive list of offers. The 2025 recruiting cycle is […]

Despite just 90 pass attempts during the 2024 season, Texas Longhorns redshirt sophomore quarterback Arch Manning is currently the betting favorite to win the 2025 Heisman Trophy Award. There are a couple of factors in play here… first, the last name, which we can’t just ignore since it’s steeped in college football history. Second, and […]

This offseason has been a wild one for former Texas wide receiver Johntay Cook. Cook entered the transfer portal after the regular season came to a close, and he did not participate in the College Football Playoff with the Longhorns. He ended up committing to Washington, but after less than 48 hours with the Huskies, […]

ESPN College Football analyst Marty Smith gave an eye-popping prediction about Texas football quarterback Arch Manning, comparing him to a college football legend. The sophomore QB is entering his first year as a starter with massive hype. Experts are projecting Manning as a Heisman Trophy candidate heading the 2025 season. With his name recognition, family […]

Texas football quarterback Arch Manning turned a lot of heads when showcasing his athleticism on Thursday. As the heir apparent to the Manning quarterback dynasty, the former 5-star recruit is already generating hype as he is set to start for the Longhorns in 2025. Texas football is coming off a successful first season in the […]

After a second consecutive elimination in the College Football Playoff semifinal, the Texas Longhorns will be undergoing something of a transition during the 2025 season. But in place to ensure that this process goes smoothly is third-year sophomore quarterback Arch Manning, who played sparingly throughout the 2024 season in a handful of packages and in […]

The Texas Longhorns have added another key piece to their defensive line, as former Ohio State defensive tackle Hero Kanu announced his commitment to Texas on Wednesday. Kanu, a highly sought-after transfer, chose the Longhorns over Georgia and Florida after making visits to all three programs. Kanu’s decision comes after a brief but impactful visit […]

Alabama football and Texas football both fell short of their ultimate goal this season, as Alabama missed out on the College Football Playoff entirely while Texas fell to eventual national champion Ohio State in the semifinals. Now, both schools are already doing the groundwork to get back to college football’s mountaintop. Both perennial powerhouses are […]

The Texas football team currently has the top 2025 recruiting class in the entire country, and it doesn’t look like anyone is going to catch the Longhorns. The 2025 cycle is almost over as almost every top recruit in the country has picked a school. There are still few guys left, and there is a […]

The 2024 season may not have ended the way that fans of the Texas Longhorns hoped it would, but at the very least, folks in the Lone Star State can rest comfortably knowing that the Texas football program won’t need to undergo an unexpected coaching search this offseason. That’s because four years after joining the […]

One of Texas football’s top offensive players from the 2024-25 campaign is set to enter the transfer portal. Tight end Amari Niblack announced his decision on Friday, according to CBS Sports. Niblack hauled in five receptions for 33 yards  over nine appearances during his junior Longhorns season. A top 100 recruit in the 2022 class, […]

Looking into the projections and landing spots for Quinn Ewers.

It was just one year ago when edge rusher Trey Moore made his decision to leave the UTSA Roadrunners and make the short 82 mile trip up to Austin to join the Texas Longhorns football program. Though Moore was by no means a household name, the promising young linebacker did make waves while playing for […]

The Texas football team lost another player to the transfer portal on Thursday as running back Nik Sanders has entered his name. This isn’t a big loss for the Longhorns as Sanders was a freshman this past season, and he did not get any action. Sanders is the 10th Texas player to enter the transfer […]

When Quinn Ewers declared for the 2025 NFL Draft, he left behind Texas football, and a big wad of money. In the latest report by 247 Sports, they said that Ewers was offered a large sum of money, $8 million to be exact, to leave the Longhorns and join this specific university. The article didn’t […]

After going back and forth on where he should play football next season, be that at his current home, the University of Texas, for a new college football team like, say, Kenny Dillingham’s rapidly ascending Arizona State program via the transfer portal, or at the professional level, Quinn Ewers has officially made things official: declaring […]

Texas football quarterback Quinn Ewers announced on Wednesday that he will not be returning to college and will instead go pro. Ewers and the Longhorns played their last game on Friday night as they came up short in the Cotton Bowl against Ohio State. Texas was in it until the very end, but they couldn’t […]

The Texas football team saw its season end in a tough 28-14 loss to Ohio State in the Cotton Bowl. Since then, Texas has seen a ton of players depart for the NFL Draft, including star right tackle Cameron Williams as well as wide receivers Matthew Golden and Isaiah Bond. One of the big question […]

Following possible speculation, Texas football quarterback Quinn Ewers is officially declaring for the 2025 NFL Draft, according to a post on his personal X account. The news follows an interesting moment in his season. During the College Football Playoff, Ewers was offered $6 million in NIL to transfer from Texas football. The university was never […]

Texas football is losing yet another player to the NFL Draft. Offensive lineman Cameron Williams is declaring for the draft, per ESPN. He joins a horde of other Longhorns who are leaving Austin this offseason. Williams is a 6-foot-5, 335 pound lineman projected to play at tackle in the NFL. He’s a part of a […]

Texas football is going to be reloading in 2025. The Longhorns are losing another wide receiver to the NFL Draft, per ESPN. Isaiah Bond is leaving Austin to try and take his talents to pro football. “I want to show teams they are getting the most explosive wide receiver in the draft,” Bond said, per […]

The Texas football team took a very tough loss in the College Football Playoff semifinals on Friday night. Despite hanging around for much of the game, a key turnover at the end of the game gave Ohio State a 28-14 win in the Orange Bowl and earned it a spot in the national title game. […]

The Texas Longhorns football program is still recovering from a tough 28-14 loss to Ohio State in the Cotton Bowl. Texas fell short of the College Football Playoff national title game, and now the end of the Quinn Ewers era seems to be in store in Austin. Moreover, Texas has now seen former EDGE Justice […]

Texas football is undergoing massive changes in less than 48 hours after the Cotton Bowl loss. The Longhorns now know the 2025 fate of star left tackle Kelvin Banks Jr. Texas’ top blindside protector has announced he’s entering the NFL Draft, with ESPN draft analyst Matt Miller confirming the move Sunday. This means projected incoming […]

Texas football stared at the end zone with under two minutes left inside the 10-yard line. The Longhorns had Ohio State on the ropes with one more chance to tie the game. But Quinn Ewers took a massive hit and fumbled, turning into seven points and sealing the Cotton Bowl loss. As Ohio State celebrated […]

Despite Texas’ loss to Ohio State in the College Football Playoffs, Matthew McConaughey will always be a Longhorns football superfan. The 55-year-old actor encouraged the team on social media after their heartbreaking loss in the Cotton Bowl. “Hell of a fight tonight men of @TexasLonghorns football,” McConaughey tweeted. “After the pain subsides, be sure and […]

The College Football Playoff semifinals at the Cotton Bowl came down to the final minutes between two of the sport’s heavyweights. Texas and Ohio State battled tooth and nail all night long, and the Longhorns found themselves with the ball on the one-yard line and trailing by seven, with four chances to even the score […]

A College Football Playoff that was scrutinized for the amount of blowouts early on delivered two great semifinals to determine the matchup in the National Championship Game. Just a day after Notre Dame stunned Penn State in the Orange Bowl, Ohio State came up clutch in the fourth quarter against Texas to move on to […]

As soon as Texas football lost to Ohio State in the Cotton Bowl Classic, Longhorns superfan Matthew McConaughey was under attack by fans. They were continually roasting Texas after an abysmal second half, and fourth quarter. However, his appearance gained much attention, for better or for worse. For instance, one fan posted a video about […]

The Texas offense has really struggled to get going in the first half against Ohio State, as they trail 14-7 at halftime of the College Football Playoff semifinals at the Cotton Bowl. The Longhorns have struggled to do just about anything offensively, whether it be running, passing, catching or blocking. During the first half, right […]

Lackluster, uninspiring, inefficient and fraudulent. Those adjectives describe how Ohio State football looked in their 13-10 loss to hated rival Michigan on Nov. 30. Since that stomach-churning defeat, which was followed by an ugly brawl, the Buckeyes have carried themselves like the indisputably best team in the country. They are riding a powerful wave of […]