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34-16 Texas

I’ll be the traveling secretary making sure this initiative gets pushed at every game and practice. Is this also part of the “run the run the damn ball for a better offense campaign?!

23 - 15 Texas wins.

I’d be in favor of changing the rule to state QB rather than passer.

40% of the top 10 picks, and not making the playoffs would be quite the scene. I don’t see 4 top 10 picks though. There are 2 on this team.

The SEC race is going to be very interesting… there will be 2-3 really good teams that will go 11-7 in league play

Texas 31 Florida 17

Not sure what's more ridiculous, Arch or Coleman first round.

This has to be outdated. There’s no way anyone is taking Arch or Dante Moore in the top 10.

Not dragging Coach Miller, but the non conference home slate is dogshit. There won't be enough momentum with home crowds until the conference season rolls around for anyone to be discussing opening up the upper deck. Also, Florida is January 2, before students get back on campus. Which is a real shame. I'm sure it will be sold out, but it won't be ideal without the students.

Who needs Arch more, Tennessee or Houston.

44 - 24 Texas

42 -17 Horns! Arch goes crazy.

The SEC is loaded. We have to protect home court and snatch a few from the away games. I predict huge crowds this year. Time to open the upper deck.

Stop that run and jump those short routes. Over play leverage to the inside and force long throws. Gotta tackle in space this week. Quick passing and be stubborn about the run on offense. Let’s break out of this lull and put these guys away early.

CBS Sports predicts the preseason top 25 poll https://www.cbssports.com/college-basketball/news/ap-top-25-college-basketball-rankings-preseason-poll-florida-duke-illinois/

I love this team. As I mentioned a few times before, I was an Assistant Principal in Albuquerque when Elena Lovato, our Assistant Head Coach for Coach Vic won the state title in New Mexico. She played for Rio Grande High, which is deep in the Barrio and rarely had ever won a state championship in any sport. My best friend was the girl's head coach at another high school, but we would go to her games because we sensed something special. The fact that I had hired the basketball coach and had been an Assistant Principal at Rio Grande too, just made that chip that more special. When I received my fellowship to UT, I became a huge fan of UT women's hoops. I even hired some players to tutor my daughter who eventually lettered in high school basketball. It's my favorite sport to follow! Hook'em!

The conditions are ripe for Texas to have success throwing the football. We'll see what unfolds in less than 24 hours.

AUSTIN, Texas — The elixir for what’s ailed the Texas passing game through the first five games of the 2026 season could be facing Florida’s secondary. The Gators will roll into Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium to take on the seventh-ranked Longhorns on Saturday (11 a.m., ABC), with the nation’s 131st-ranked pass defense in tow. In addition to allowing 268.7 yards per game through the air, opponents have torched Jon Sumrall’s defense for 10 touchdowns and 22 completions of 20 yards more, tied for 118th in FBS. If Texas (4-1, 1-1 SEC) is going to turn a corner offensively after Steve Sarkisian’s unit wilted in the second half of a 27-24 loss to Oklahoma in the Red River Shootout, it must produce against Florida (4-2, 2-2). A critical stretch of three October home games for the Longhorns begins with their third game in as many seasons against the Gators, who are 90th nationally in yards per play allowed (5.64), are ranked 121st in third-down defense (46.7 percent conversion rate allowed) and are tied for 87th in FBS in red-zone touchdown rate allowed (63.6 percent, with 14 red-zone touchdowns tied for 109th in the country). Sarkisian said during his Thursday pregame Zoom meeting with the media that the running game is closer to becoming something Texas can count on, “than maybe we're getting credit for.” Even though the offense started clicking late in the loss to the Sooners when the Longhorns operated out of 10 personnel (four wide receivers, one running back and no tight ends) with Jermaine Bishop Jr. on the field, Sarkisian wants a balanced offense. “Don't get me wrong, our 10 personnel is really good to us. It's grown as the season's gone on and it's been effective, but you have layers to that,” Sarkisian said. “Your run game can get limited, your pass protections can get limited, so you have to have other things to offset that if people are trying to attack that aspect of your game.” No matter which personnel packages Texas utilizes against Florida, Arch Manning will look to pick up where Austin Simmons and LaNorris Sellers left off against the Gators. Simmons completed a season-high 76.7 percent of his passes (23-for-30) and threw for 340 yards (one yard shy of tying his career high) in Missouri’s 45-17 rout of Florida on Oct. 3. Sellers threw 279 yards and a season-high four touchdowns last Saturday, helping South Carolina deliver a 38-19 smackdown at the Swamp. To shine against the Gators, who picked Manning off twice and sacked him six times in last season’s 29-21 win over Texas in Gainesville, Manning must reverse a couple of unsavory trends. Manning, who has an 11-0 record as a starter at DKR, has thrown five interceptions in five games, including two critical misfires against Oklahoma. According to Pro Football Focus, 56 of Manning's pressured dropbacks have resulted in 12 sacks, a 21.4-percent pressure-to-sack rate that’s pacing well ahead of his 13.3-percent mark in 2025 (22 sacks on 165 pressured dropbacks). If Manning gets rid of the football quickly and protects it, the Longhorns can build on what went right against the Sooners. The list includes a season-high four completions of 20 or more yards, Cam Coleman’s first 100-yard game as a Longhorn (110 yards and a touchdown on five receptions) and Bishop’s first-career touchdown catch (a 15-yard strike from Manning in the fourth quarter). Beyond whatever numbers the passing game produces on Saturday, Sarkisian wants to see the offense start to look like a unit that’s making strides “to a point to where we can beat the elite teams, knowing that that's who you have to beat if you want to have a really good record at the end of the year.” “I look more at our execution, our level of consistency, knowing the quality of players and the quality of coaches and the environments that we play in,” he said. OTHER STATS AND MATCHUPS TO WATCH WHEN THE LONGHORNS FACE THE GATORS — According to PFF, Manning has been blitzed on 40.3 percent of his dropbacks this season (73 of 181). Florida enters the game with a season-long blitz rate of 30.6 percent, according to PFF. Expect the Gators to dial up pressure with extra pass rushers against Manning like UTSA (blitzed Manning on 22 of 42 dropbacks) and Tennessee (blitzed on 13 of 30 dropbacks) did in recent weeks. The matchup between Manning and Brad White, however, extends beyond the six- and seven-man pressures the Florida defensive coordinator is expected to throw at the Texas quarterback. While Sarkisian wants Manning's legs to be a weapon, Manning has to pick his spots wisely. Manning has scrambled out of a clean pocket 15 times among 22 total scrambles this season, according to PFF. That helps explain why Manning's average of 7.5 yards per scramble is down from last season (10.9 yards per scramble) and why he hasn't been as effective on the move as he was in 2025. — Whether Aaron Philo plays or Tramell Jones Jr. makes his first career start at quarterback for the Gators, Vernell Brown III’s return will test the secondary in the deep part of the field. Brown, who missed Florida’s losses to Missouri and South Carolina with a knee injury and is considered a game-time decision, has been targeted 11 times this season, six of them on attempts of 20 yards or more downfield, according to PFF. Brown has caught three of the six deep shots, which have accounted for 97 of his 133 receiving yards. If Brown and Eric Singleton Jr., who has been working his way back from an ankle injury he suffered in the Gators’ 66-21 season-opening win over Florida Atlantic, are in the lineup alongside Dallas Wilson and Bailey Stockton, the Florida wideouts might be the most talented group of wide receivers the Longhorn secondary will face in 2026, other than Ohio State. — A healthy Florida team on the perimeter means Will Muschamp can’t devote all of his resources to slowing down Jadan Baugh, who ran for 107 yards and a touchdown on 27 carries against Texas last season. The lack of viable threats in the passing game helped Missouri and South Carolina focus most of their attention on stopping Baugh. Both defenses kept him from getting loose and taking over the game, which will be one of Muschamp's primary objectives. The Tigers held Baugh to 13 yards on 12 carries, while the SEC’s third-leading rusher (112 yards per game and 6.1 yards per carry) finished with 59 yards on 15 carries against the Gamecocks. Muschamp’s defense hasn’t allowed a 100-yard rusher this season. Currently, Bo Jackson’s 74-yard outing in the Longhorns’ 24-23 comeback win over Ohio State on Sept. 12 is the best performance an opposing running back has had against Texas in 2026. Georgia and South Carolina are the only two SEC defenses to allow fewer 10-plus-yard runs than the Longhorns (15) this season, with only Mississippi State allowing fewer 20-plus-yard runs than Texas (three). After the Gators ran for 159 yards (4.3 yards per carry) against the Longhorns at the Swamp last season, Saturday’s game is an opportunity for the Texas defense to send a message that it isn’t the same unit that lost the line-of-scrimmage battle in a landslide when the two clubs met more than a year ago. View full news story

Man I hope his numbers progress through the season like Golden's did. I recall he was really good from about this point on.