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He’s a great player. But what if he doesn’t get the playing time he wants year 1 then portals for the next highest bidder? This recruitment is tricky to me.

I hear CDC, but I’m sorry - Texas shouldn’t dumb down the schedule because the CFP can’t get its act together. Fans want Michigan, Ohio State, Notre Dame in Austin, not another round of Rice/UTSA/Wyoming. If the committee punishes teams for playing real games, then the committee is the problem. Texas shouldn’t shrink its brand because the system is confused. Fix the freaking system, and make it happen - keep scheduling like Texas.

If we would have played Rice week 1 last year, we had a decent shot at making a semi final at least. I know the playoff might be expanding, but it still angers me that the committee only looks at the loss column. The game against ND would be amazing, but I value a chance at a championship more. Cancel it.

This guy isn't though.

I would be pissed if UT had to play at those times. Legit complaint.

Gerry never turned down a chance to let us know Ojo was waaaay over ranked by the industry last year.

Even if he’s gonna just go with the highest bidder, you’d think he’d let each school wine and dine him. I would have a tough time turning down free Texas BBQ.

boo hoo

Why is Ivan Masiel on this committee?

Chris Del Conte and Steve Sarkisian have been in lockstep regarding Texas’ non-conference football schedule. The Longhorns will honor their home-and-home agreements with Ohio State and Michigan, with the Buckeyes coming to Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium on Sept. 12 and the Wolverines heading to town on Sept. 11, 2027. Beyond those two return bouts from marquee non-conference games played during the 2024 (a resounding 31-12 victory over the reigning national champions at the Big House) and 2025 (a 14-7 loss in the Horseshoe) seasons, nothing is set in stone. That includes a scheduled home-and-home with Notre Dame. Texas is scheduled to travel to South Bend in 2028, while the Fighting Irish are scheduled to travel to Austin in 2029. At the SEC spring meetings in Destin on Wednesday, Del Conte indicated the Longhorns aren’t locked into what would be the 13th and 14th all-time meetings between two of college football’s most iconic brands. “They’re tentatively on the schedule right now,” Del Conte said. Given the uncertainty surrounding the future format and access into the College Football Playoff, Texas is in a tough spot regarding the two scheduled games with the Irish. The school’s television partners (ESPN and NBC) wouldn’t hesitate to put the Longhorns and Notre Dame in primetime. The 2015 meeting — a 38-3 loss for Texas during a Saturday night season opener in South Bend — was seen by 4.1 million viewers on NBC. The 2016 game in Austin — a memorable 50-47 double-overtime triumph played on Sunday night during Labor Day weekend — drew more than 10.9 million viewers on ABC, making it the fourth most-watched college football game of the season. Still, if CFP expansion doesn’t appropriately reward teams willing to schedule tough non-conference games, there’s no incentive for Texas to schedule Notre Dame or another high-level power conference opponent. CFP executive director Rich Clark went through the CFP selection process on Tuesday. The exercise didn’t significantly clear things up for Del Conte, who saw the Longhorns rewarded for scheduling Alabama and Michigan in 2023 and 2024, only to be excluded from the 12-team field last season due, in large part, to suffering a season-opening road loss at the hands of Ohio State. “It's hard to determine what the metrics are as a 9-3 and 10-2 schedule to say, these guys [won] 10 games, but they lost to these two teams. [Are they] better than a team that lost three games and didn't just schedule who they played?” Del Conte said. “I need more clarity on that. “It's part of the criteria,” he added. “It's hard to determine how it's being considered because you also have human nature in the room.” Del Conte didn’t make any not-so-thinly-veiled references to Texas Tech, like the one Sarkisian made last Thursday in Houston. What was missed amid Red Raider nation taking umbrage with Sarkisian’s comments to an audience of staunch Longhorn supporters, however, is what Del Conte echoed on Tuesday: the reality that the lack of equitable scheduling in college football eliminates the incentive to play non-conference games against the Big Ten and SEC opponents Texas has had on the schedule in each of Sarkisian’s five seasons as head coach. “One of the things that makes college football great is your non-conference schedule and what your regular season is,” Del Conte said. “When you play in games of that nature, you should get rewarded for that. When you have a really watered-down schedule — and the thing that gets college football so different is not every schedule is the same. In the NFL, you know exactly what it is — there's 32 teams, they play it all out correctly. In our sport, it's hard to judge one league from the next in terms of their strength of schedule and who you play. It was great for us to have our coaches hear what they look for, but you also left there murky as hell, too.” Although Greg Sankey said on Wednesday that a 16-team CFP is the format the SEC prefers, schools will continue to cancel future games against Power Four opponents until a new format is agreed upon. To that end, Del Conte didn’t commit to preferring the 12-team format, but he indicated he doesn’t want the powers that be to expand for the sake of expanding. “It’s changed so quickly,” Del Conte said, noting college football went from using the BCS to crown a national champion to a four-team playoff to the current 12-team format in the span of 12 seasons (2013-24). “We’re in our second year of that opportunity. I do think there needs to be some time to see how this plays out, but in the NFL, there’s 32 teams — 14 make it. In Major League Baseball, there’s 30 teams and 17 make it. The percentages — you look at the NBA (16 of 30 teams make the playoffs, with the last four spots in each conference determined by a series of play-in games). “I think it’s right for people to ask what the right number is, but at the end of the day, I’m also looking at it that we have young kids that, if you’re not playing in the playoff, they’re not playing in the bowl game,” he added. “They’re looking for different opportunities with how the transfer portal works now. We’ve had so much change in such a short amount of time that I do think we need a little bit of time to evaluate that. It’s not just, ‘Hey! Let’s jump to this!’” View full news story

Driving to OKC now. Daughter is playing in tournament starting Friday so we had to make sure to be there for Thursday’s games. First time she will be able to watch the Horns live so it’s going to be pretty exciting. I will probably need some tips and advice since it’s our first time. Haven’t even bought tickets yet!

The highlight may have been who could design the most chaotic uniform. Im actually disappointed they canceled.

But it would have been the battle for who may have been the meanest green!!! Perception counts, even if Oreegun has no green in their game day uniforms! 🐻 vs. 🦫

Idk if i’ve ever seen @Gerry Hamilton not like a recruit that Texas actually wants 🤣🤣🤣 I get it though reminds me of Felix Ojo.

Heck, he is just an insanely talented kid at that size….but unproven as can be for day 1 starter money… Paying up for Mark Matthews makes way more sense than this chase with no end in sight!

Yeah, don't see this one going our way.

Who 🐔 out first???? 🤷🏽‍♂️

It will be Earth shaking for him when he discovers how little influence he actually has! 🤘🏻🤘🏼🤘🤘🏽🤘🏾🤘🏿

Now this may be NIL related to get to a neutral setting, for the Auburn game anyway. But it may not be an Oregon request. Maybe it was a Baylor request that Oregon thought “sure, we have nothing to gain by playing them.” People keep ignoring or downplaying the thought that mid-tier conference teams might want to downsize their schedule too. So Baylor says, “let’s not play Oregon so we can get a dub against the SHSU Bearkats.” Even the alternative of working for a neutral site is a net negative for college football. It could be anybody that takes a Bill Snyder approach to scheduling.

+1 on all accounts.

It is crappy. It is a valid complaint. Just like we should have been given some extra consideration for 42 days away from home.

And this A munch is the Chair of the CFP Selection Committee. SELECTION COMMITTEE A talented group of 13 high-integrity individuals with experience as coaches, student-athletes, college administrators and journalists, along with sitting athletics directors, comprise the selection committee. Members of the committee are Troy Dannen, Mark Dantonio, Mark Harlan, Dr. Bryan Maggard, Ivan Maisel, Gus Malzahn, Chris Massaro, Randall McDaniel, Mike Riley, Jeff Tedford, Wesley Walls, Carla Williams and Hunter Yurachek (chair).