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Sorry you are upset that I and NFL execs disagree with your assessment of Jeremiah Smith. The drop depends on the route. Also I am sure they will roll Sayin out and hit some drag routes, I can also see them putting Smith in the slot and in motion. They will also use him as a decoy and sling it out to Klare on some dig routes. Sayin won't need to throw the ball 70 yards at anytime on 8/30. He just needs to get the ball to his playmakers and let them make plays. Smith's speed and YAC are going to be a problem.

I can only speak for myself. I will be back regardless to tell ya'll good game and I hope to visit Austin (for the second time) next September.

Back in early February, I suggested it would have been fun to have a contest, guessing what the total OTF subscriber count would be on YouTube at the time of kickoff against Ohio State nearly 7 months later. OTF had just passed the 70k subscribers mark at that time. My guess was 135k subscribers by kickoff on August 30th (nearly doubling your total and declaring total Longhorn World Domination, lol). I may have been off by a bit but I'm guessing OTF hits the 135k very soon. Far and away the best video broadcasting coverage for Horns Nation!! Would have been fun to have a competition, especially if 4 Texas A&M tickets had been part of the prize for the winner, lol. Anything for free tickets!!! Excited for the season to get started. Grateful for OTF and the incredible team Bobby has assembled, the dream team including Gerry, CJ, Jeff, Blake, Rod and others. Keep up the great work!! Hook em!! 🧡🤘🏼🐂

I agree

Just hope all you OSU fans come back on 08/31… hopefully don’t look like Kirk Barton afterwards.

He hasn't coached in college in 20 years but he has been coaching. A leopard don't change his spots, the same tendencies he had in the NFL will show up in 9 days.

I was talking that from my standpoint Sark didn't have tape on Martindale before going into Ann Arbor, he watched a lot of Ravens tape and had his team prepared. I'm just saying having a new DC isn't the adavantage it seems to be. The continuity Texas has enjoyed is more of an advantage. They get to do what they've been doing since day 1 of Sark. If Patricia comes in with all these exotic coverages and schemes he's more likely to confuse the defense not Arch.

I believe Sark will use the screen game as an extension of the run game like he has in the past. What has me exited about this is the early intel on WR's willingness to block down the field. Once the cb and safety start to cheat up, then Arch will throw it over the top. Arch's patience early in games will be key for Texas this year.

Not at all. I think Sark is one of the great offensive minds in the game, right up there with Ryan Day. Both our coaches are on the short list of best play callers in college football. I couldn't have any more respect for Sark. That said, it's alot easier for him to prepare for something he's seen a body of recent work on tape. He's not going to have that in this case, Patricia hasn't coached a college game in over 20 years so he's gonna be guessing what he's gonna see. Obviously he's gonna go back to what structures and schemes Patricia ran in the NFL but there's necessarily more uncertainty as a result because the NFL is a different game and he's going to have to be ready for a greater variety of looks. Tougher to do in the first game with a young QB under center on the road.

Should be a fun one!

A large portion of the fan base did indeed want him fired due to 4 losses in a row to Michigan. Frankly the fan base has been spoiled. We were 17-7 against them since 2000. Frankly I hate losing to Michigan as much as anyone but Day is a helluva coach and not many better options were or are available. Hope he gets the Michigan monkey off his back this year. I will take a Natty over a Michigan win though....

Yeah, that's a very bad take. Patricia is going to be good, but will he be good enough, quickly enough to win on 8/30? We don't know. I like Ohio State's defense a lot versus Texas offense personally.

You have way too much confidence in either your offensive Listen to who you want did you watch it? What did you see? You seen a lot of drags underneath and a lot of go routes. If you didn't I'm wasting my time talking to you because you don't know the route tree and if you don't know the route tree you don't know football. What I said is exactly what you see a lot of run after catch or he was head tapping. And to answer your question if you're relying on qetting rid of the ball quick how deep is your drop and doesn't the route and drop have to be timed together. Or are you saying Sayin can throw 70 yards down field on a 3 step drop.

Taaffe for me.

If Ohio State is able to win this game, I think they have a lot of success in the middle of the field. Whether that is James Peoples & CJ Donaldson Jr running between the guards, or Max Klare and Brandon Innis in the seams.

I'm as curious as ya'll to see what type of defense Patricia runs. One thing that is different with the way NFL DC's call a defense versus college DC's is that Knowles had his scheme and ran it no matter who they were playing. Where as "supposedly" Patricia has a specific game plan for each opponent based on that teams strength's or weaknesses. Can it work in college? We will see.

I will listen to the NFL guys. https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/44630603/2025-nfl-draft-jeremiah-smith-ohio-state-how-high

That's a helluva story your spinning there. You're asking us to believe Belichick hired a young incompetent, kept him on his staff for 16 years, trained him up in a variety defensive coaching positions and then promoted him to DC for a couple world championship runs because he's such a sweetheart of a guy or what? Good luck with that one.....

Regardless, as I wrote, whether the streak gets extended or not next Saturday, this is another data point to show that Sark has Texas positioned where few coaches have had the program since Coach Royal was hired.

If this Texas team ties the road winning streak of the Mack Brown era Longhorns, it'll happen against Mississippi State on Oct. 25. If the Longhorns get to 15, they'd go to Athens with a chance to make it 16 against Georgia on Nov. 15.

The softball GOAT

AUSTIN, Texas — There was a time when Steve Sarkisian couldn’t take Texas on the road and buy a win. After traveling to Boone Pickens Stadium and dropping a 41-34 decision to No. 11 Oklahoma State on Oct. 22, 2022, Sarkisian’s road record as coach of the Longhorns stood at an abysmal 1-6. While Bijan Robinson churning out 216 yards on a career-high 35 carries in a win over TCU in Fort Worth accounted for Sarkisian’s only victory through his first six true road games on the job, things haven’t been the same since the loss in Stillwater. That’s the last time Texas lost a true road game, establishing the longest active road winning streak in the country after last season’s 17-7 win over No. 20 Texas A&M at Kyle Field. Winners in each of their last 11 true road games, the No. 1 Longhorns try to make it 12 consecutive victories next Saturday when they open the 2025 season against No. 3 Ohio State. Traveling to the Horseshoe to face the reigning national champion for the second time in less than eight months might make for the toughest road trip of Sarkisian’s tenure. That’s saying a lot, considering the Aggies became the fifth Associated Press Top 25 opponent to fall victim to Texas during the streak. The streak started with a turning point in Sarkisian’s time leading the program — a 34-27 win over No. 13 Kansas State on Nov. 5, 2022. With the Wildcats on the verge of forcing overtime, and the Longhorns on the verge of blowing a 21-point halftime lead, Keondre Coburn stripped a scrambling Adrian Martinez. Jaylan Ford secured the loose ball and the victory for Texas, its first under Sarkisian away from Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium over an AP Top 25 opponent. Since then, the Longhorns have snapped Alabama’s 21-game winning streak at Bryant-Denny Stadium in 2023 and Michigan’s 23-game winning streak at the Big House last season. A 27-24 win over No. 25 Vanderbilt was one of three ranked opponents Texas defeated on the road en route to a 13-win season and a second consecutive trip to the College Football Playoff in 2024. The key to changing the program’s fortunes when traveling into enemy territory, Sarkisian said after the team’s second camp scrimmage last Saturday, was sticking to the routine he established in 2021. “I don't know that there's some secret sauce. We're a routine operation," Sarkisian said. "As much as some of us wanted us to change our routine on the road, we stuck with it way back in the day when we weren't a great road team. Over time, guys found the routine of what we did and why we did what we did. “We started to change the narrative of who we were as a road team.” The current road winning streak is tied for the program’s fourth-longest in the AP Poll era (since 1936). No Texas had ever racked up double-digit consecutive road wins until Darrell Royal’s Longhorns won 10 in a row, beginning with a 27-12 victory over Baylor on Nov. 10, 1962, and ending with a 27-24 loss to No. 3 Arkansas on Oct. 16, 1965. Sarkisian’s current streak is tied with a stretch of road success Texas enjoyed under Mack Brown over three seasons (2000-02). After a 28-14 win over Colorado in Boulder on Oct. 14, 2000, the Longhorns didn’t drop another road game until a 42-38 loss to Texas Tech on Nov. 16, 2002, which kept Texas out of the Big 12 title game. Sarkisian has the Longhorns positioned similarly to where Brown had them in the early 2000s. Back then, Texas was stacking elite recruiting classes on top of each other and had been close to playing for a national championship, with a loss to Colorado in the 2001 Big 12 Championship Game costing the Longhorns an opportunity to face Miami in the Rose Bowl. Whether Texas continues the winning streak inside the Horseshoe in nine days or not, double-digit winning streaks in true road games have only happened when the Longhorns have been legitimate championship contenders. — Royal’s Wishbone-era squad won 12 true road games in a row as part of the program’s record-setting 30-game winning streak (1968-70). The ‘68 Longhorns bounced back with a vengeance from a 1-1-1 start, working out the kinks in the Wishbone while getting through Oklahoma State, Oklahoma and No. 9 Arkansas before a 38-14 road win over Rice on Oct. 26. Texas, which won two national championships before its school-record winning streak was snapped with a 24-11 loss to Notre Dame in the Cotton Bowl at the end of the 1970 season, saw the road winning streak end at the hands of No. 16 Arkansas in Little Rock, 31-7, on Oct. 16, 1971. — Fred Akers came painfully close to winning a couple of national championships in his time as the Longhorns’ head man (1977-86). At the height of his tenure, Akers led Texas to 13 consecutive true road wins, which were spread out over four seasons (1981-84). A week after the Longhorns took a No. 1 ranking into Fayetteville and ran into a Razorback buzz, dropping a 42-11 decision, they went into Irving’s Texas Stadium and handed No. 10 SMU its only loss of the 1981 season, recording a 9-7 win. The Mustangs were one of four ranked opponents to drop a home game to Texas during the streak, with two of the ranked wins coming in 1983 (No. 5 Auburn and No. 9 SMU) and another in 1984 (No. 12 TCU). The 44-23 win over the Horned Frogs on Nov. 17, 1984, was the last win during the streak, with a loss to Baylor in Waco ending it a week later (24-10 on Nov. 24). — After Brown’s ‘02 squad lost to Texas Tech, the Longhorns rattled off 15 true road victories in a row over the next four seasons (2003-06), three of which came over ranked opponents. Texas knocked off Arkansas in Fayetteville (2004) and won twice in College Station (2003 and 2005) and Lubbock (2004 and 2006) during the streak. Sandwiched between a 55-16 thrashing of No. 21 Oklahoma State (Nov. 8, 2003 in Stillwater) and a 22-20 triumph over No. 17 Nebraska in the snow (Oct. 21, 2006 in Lincoln) was a 25-22 win in the Horseshoe over No. 4 Ohio State on Sept. 10, 2005, which established the Longhorns as a legitimate national championship contender early in a season that ended with Texas snapping the school's 35-year title drought. View full news story

I think Patrcia is going to be very good personally, I have alot of faith in Day’s hiring.