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Texas and Vanderbilt Battle for SEC Championship in Historic Game

The No. 5 Texas Longhorns and No. 25 Vanderbilt Commodores will clash in a highly anticipated matchup on Saturday in Nashville. Both teams are vying for a spot in the SEC title game and the College Football Playoff. Texas, coming off a tough loss to Georgia, will be looking to bounce back, while Vanderbilt seeks to build on their recent …

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2 months, 2 weeks ago

Texas swaggers into SEC and midseason break undefeated and in best shape in more than a decade

Associated Press

The AP Top 25 college football poll is back every week throughout the season! After winning last season’s Big 12 title in the program’s final season in that league and making the College Football Playoff for the first time, Texas entered this season ranked No. I think we’ve got a pretty cool swagger about us right now,” Sarkisian said before …

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3 months ago

Texas QB Ewers back in practice but still questionable for No. 1 Longhorns’ SEC opener

Associated Press

The AP Top 25 college football poll is back every week throughout the season! Ewers sat out last weekend’s 51-3 win over Louisiana-Monroe, and Arch Manning threw two touchdowns and two interceptions in earning his first career victory as a starter. “I want to make sure he’s healthy enough to play at a high level.” Ewers “keeps getting incrementally better,” …

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3 months, 1 week ago

Texas coach Sarkisian tells No. 2 Longhorns ‘we are entitled to nothing’ after big win at Michigan

Associated Press

The AP Top 25 college football poll is back every week throughout the season! That scenario was Notre Dame earning a tough road win at Texas A&M and earning praise as a team worthy of the College Football Playoff, only to be humbled at home a week later. Texas’ dominant win at Michigan vaulted the Longhorns to their highest national …

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10 months ago

Texas regents approve Sarkisian contract extension and raise to more than $10 million

Associated Press

The AP Top 25 college football poll is back every week throughout the season! AUSTIN, Texas — Steve Sarkisian is college football’s latest $10 million man. The University of Texas System Board of Regents on Thursday approved a raise and contract extension for the Longhorns coach that boosts his guaranteed salary to $10.3 million this year and signs him through …

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10 months ago

Big money: Texas coach Sarkisian getting salary increase to more than $10 million per year

Associated Press

The AP Top 25 college football poll is back every week throughout the season! AUSTIN, Texas — Texas coach Steve Sarkisian’s contract extension will push his guaranteed salary to $10.3 million this year, making him one of the highest-paid coaches in the country after leading the Longhorns to the Big 12 championship and their first appearance in the College Football …

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11 months, 3 weeks ago

Michael Penix Jr. leads No. 2 Washington to 37-31 victory over Texas and spot in national title game

Associated Press

The AP Top 25 college football poll is back every week throughout the season! Penix passed for 430 yards and two touchdowns, and the Huskies held off Texas 37-31 in the Sugar Bowl on Monday night to advance to the College Football Playoff title game, earning both the sixth-year quarterback with two surgically repaired knees and the beleaguered Pac-12 a …

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11 months, 3 weeks ago

Meme no more: Texas is back and playing for a national championship with Huskies on deck in CFP semi

Associated Press

The AP Top 25 college football poll is back every week throughout the season! But for one more week, maybe two, it’s all about the present and being “back” to where Texas believes it belongs every year. Two seasons later, Longhorns quarterback Sam Ehlinger pumped it up again with his exuberant “We’re baaaack!” after Texas thumped Georgia in the 2019 …

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1 year ago

Texas vs. Washington: Big 12 coaches praise Steve Sarkisian, Longhorns’ skill players

New York Times

All year long, it’s been said that Texas might not be back, but Texas is different. “It’s the best Texas team I’ve seen in years,” said a Big 12 offensive analyst. “I can’t imagine two better than,” said a Big 12 defensive line coach who recruited both and marveled at Sweat’s transformation from a defensive end prospect. “I’m not impressed …

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1 year, 1 month ago

Texas Longhorns takeaways: QB Maalik Murphy up-and-down, but Longhorns dominate

New York Times

No Quinn Ewers, no problem. The play call was good: a play-action fake with misdirection and a dump-off to leaking tight end Ja’Tavion Sanders, something Texas ran earlier this season. The fourth-down failures didn’t help Texas’ red zone touchdown numbers, which weren’t great coming into the weekend. After scoring touchdowns on just 40 percent of their red zone trips against …

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1 year, 2 months ago

Texas RB Jonathon Brooks honors father’s memory with every touchdown for No. 3 Longhorns

Associated Press

The AP Top 25 college football poll is back every week throughout the season! His arm is tattooed with the Roman numerals for 3-28-22, for March 28, 2022, the date his father James “Skip” Brooks died at age 49 after long struggles with kidney failure. In an offense full of big-play potential, coach Steve Sarkisian calls Brooks a “home run …

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1 year, 3 months ago

Final act for century-old rivalry as Baylor hosts No. 3 Texas in Longhorns’ Big 12 farewell tour

Associated Press

The AP Top 25 college football poll is back every week throughout the season! “I can’t tell you how many times this offseason it’s been, ‘Hey Dave, just win one game please,’” Baylor coach Dave Aranda said. “We’re definitely going to talk about the history and just some of the bigger games of the past, because I think that’s way …

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1 year, 3 months ago

No. 3 Texas a dominant second half team as Longhorns head into Big 12 play

Associated Press

The AP Top 25 college football poll is back every week throughout the season! “It changes the mentality,” Texas coach Steve Sarkisian said Monday as Texas moved past its non-conference and into the start of their final season in the Big 12 this Saturday at Baylor. “This offseason, and two offseasons ago, all I heard about is we weren’t a …

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1 year, 3 months ago

Worthy TD sparks No. 4 Texas as Longhorns pull away late from Wyoming 31-10

Associated Press

The AP Top 25 college football poll is back every week throughout the season! “It’s human nature to get distracted by that and you lose sight of what’s right in front of you.” Wyoming had already beaten Texas Tech of the Big 12 and wasn’t intimidated by the Texas sellout crowd of more than 100,000 and the fancy new stadium …

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1 year, 3 months ago

The spotlight in the Alabama-Texas game will be squarely on the 2 QBs, Quinn Ewers and Jalen Milroe

Associated Press

The AP Top 25 college football poll is back every week throughout the season! Nowadays, he is apt to end his media interviews with an enthusiastic “Roll Tide.” Quinn Ewers lifted Longhorns fans’ hopes that they had found another star passer like Young or Colt McCoy with his dazzling start in last year’s Alabama game. Milroe especially hasn’t been tested …

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1 year, 3 months ago

No. 4 Alabama, No. 11 Texas meet in rematch of last year’s down-to-wire game

Associated Press

The AP Top 25 college football poll is back every week throughout the season! “Ultimately, like I would say it’s just another game,” Alabama cornerback Terrion Arnold said. No one is above anybody so we’re going to treat it just like another game.” It might be just another SEC game once the Longhorns and Oklahoma start playing in the league …

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1 year, 4 months ago

Sarkisian and Texas to ‘embrace the hate’ in their last season in Big 12 before joining SEC

Associated Press

The AP Top 25 college football poll is back every week throughout the season! AUSTIN, Texas — The last go-around in the Big 12 for Texas could be dubbed the Longhorns’ “Embrace the Hate” tour. “I’m more comfortable in my skin.” FORD TOUGH Texas was shocked when linebacker Jaylan Ford wasn’t selected Big 12 defensive player of the year last …

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1 year, 10 months ago

Texas roster construction: How Steve Sarkisian made the Longhorns his own

New York Times

When Steve Sarkisian took the Texas job just more than two years ago, it wasn’t viewed as a massive rebuild. As Sarkisian enters Year 3, The Athletic’s analysis of Texas’ roster construction shows a focus on high school recruiting, strategic use of the portal and an emphasis on offensive and defensive linemen. Texas 2021 class 2022 class 2023 class High …

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1 year, 11 months ago

No. 12 Washington holds off No. 21 Texas 27-20 in Alamo Bowl

Associated Press

SAN ANTONIO — Michael Penix, Jr. threw for 287 yards and two touchdowns and No. “Another big night for the ’22 Huskies,” Washington coach Kalen DeBoer said. The things we’ve tried to improve, especially in the latter half of the season.” Penix finished the season with 4,641 yards passing to break the 20-year-old Washington season mark of 4,458 set by …

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2 years, 2 months ago

Are refs needling USC, Texas and other expansion defectors?

LA Times

Texas tight end Andrej Karic watches as head coach Steve Sarkisian gestures while speaking on the radio during the first half against Oklahoma State on Saturday in Stillwater, Okla. At one point during Saturday’s first half, Texas led Oklahoma State by 14 points. As in, the Big 12 officials who called this game did not identify one Oklahoma State penalty …

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2 years, 3 months ago

Texas coach, players say narrow loss a win for the future

Associated Press

The AP Top 25 college football poll is back every week throughout the season! “We didn’t lose today,” Texas coach Steve Sarkisian said he told his players, “We ran out of time.” The game clock does count, and the final 0:00 left yet another round of “what if?” for Texas when it comes to beating the Crimson Tide. Since Alabama …

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2 years, 3 months ago

Texas has chance for big turnaround against No. 1 Alabama

Associated Press

The AP Top 25 college football poll is back every week throughout the season! But to a man, they pretty much all know this about the Crimson Tide’s 37-21 victory to win the 2009 season national championship: That’s the game where “Colt got hurt.” Three words describe the early injury to standout quarterback Colt McCoy and the ripple effect it …

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2 years, 3 months ago

Ewers with 2 TD passes in Texas debut, a 52-10 win over ULM

Associated Press

The AP Top 25 college football poll is back every week throughout the season! “It’s a lot of fun,” Ewers said of the Texas offensive and its multiple playmakers. “They were the better football team and they’ll be the better football team tomorrow.” Texas: Sarkisian predicted there would be some misfires and growing pains from his young quarterback and he …

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3 years, 2 months ago

Boomer: Brooks 2 late TDs, No. 6 Oklahoma beats Texas 55-48

Associated Press

DALLAS — Kennedy Brooks took the final snap for sixth-ranked Oklahoma, after freshman quarterback Caleb Williams had taken over when Spencer Rattler was again benched in the Red River rivalry game. Rattler was benched early in last year’s game against Texas, but came back after halftime and threw two of his three TDs in the four overtimes the Sooners needed …

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Texas and Vanderbilt Battle for SEC Championship in Historic Game

Texas swaggers into SEC and midseason break undefeated and in best shape in more than a decade

Texas QB Ewers back in practice but still questionable for No. 1 Longhorns’ SEC opener

Texas coach Sarkisian tells No. 2 Longhorns ‘we are entitled to nothing’ after big win at Michigan

Texas regents approve Sarkisian contract extension and raise to more than $10 million

Big money: Texas coach Sarkisian getting salary increase to more than $10 million per year

Michael Penix Jr. leads No. 2 Washington to 37-31 victory over Texas and spot in national title game

Meme no more: Texas is back and playing for a national championship with Huskies on deck in CFP semi

Texas vs. Washington: Big 12 coaches praise Steve Sarkisian, Longhorns’ skill players

Texas Longhorns takeaways: QB Maalik Murphy up-and-down, but Longhorns dominate

Texas RB Jonathon Brooks honors father’s memory with every touchdown for No. 3 Longhorns

Final act for century-old rivalry as Baylor hosts No. 3 Texas in Longhorns’ Big 12 farewell tour

No. 3 Texas a dominant second half team as Longhorns head into Big 12 play

Worthy TD sparks No. 4 Texas as Longhorns pull away late from Wyoming 31-10

The spotlight in the Alabama-Texas game will be squarely on the 2 QBs, Quinn Ewers and Jalen Milroe

No. 4 Alabama, No. 11 Texas meet in rematch of last year’s down-to-wire game

Sarkisian and Texas to ‘embrace the hate’ in their last season in Big 12 before joining SEC

Texas roster construction: How Steve Sarkisian made the Longhorns his own

No. 12 Washington holds off No. 21 Texas 27-20 in Alamo Bowl

Are refs needling USC, Texas and other expansion defectors?

Texas coach, players say narrow loss a win for the future

Texas has chance for big turnaround against No. 1 Alabama

Ewers with 2 TD passes in Texas debut, a 52-10 win over ULM

Boomer: Brooks 2 late TDs, No. 6 Oklahoma beats Texas 55-48