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Interesting! Could the portal player's snaps per game be indexed to the percentage of portal top level players on their respective team rank?? 🤘🏻🤘🏼🤘🤘🏽🤘🏾🤘🏿

Great move by you! Wish I had two friends with whom I could attend!! 🤘🏻🤘🏼🤘🤘🏽🤘🏾🤘🏿

I apologize in advance if this is not allowed. I just figured I’d reach out to fellow Longhorns before posting these for sale on SeatGeek or Ticketmaster. I am selling 3 tickets to this weekend’s game against Mississippi State. Selling them for less than what I bought them for and less than any other ticket website that has tickets in a similar area. Section 30 Row 7. All 3 seats are together.

This is good stuff! What stands out to me is how important the '23 class was last year to the team. We lost a lot of great talent to the league that year (love seeing Manny ball out for my bears every week. Initially thought he needed to come back and be a 1st rounder but turns out he was more than ready) I think the 30-40% each year is a good sweet spot. Depending on where your holes are, development timelines, how our recruiting classes go, etc.

Dang I hate to see Jerry Jones happy

Great article Gerry . I’ve heard you’ve been sick . I hope you get better soon. Hope to see you on OTF “ Coffee & Football “ soon .

Interesting stuff on the transfers. Nice post Payton!

Very interesting! Great graphic as well. I think they have done a good job of keeping balance in the transfer portal. I wonder what are the numbers of 4 and 5 stars that have transferred out compared to the rest of the NCAA.

Sucks to see for Ant.

I haven’t seen anyone overlook Mississippi State.

Good stuff, Payton. Texas remains a relatively homegrown team comparatively. 12th in the SEC in transfer snaps.

Thanks for the pep talk, Coach.

Agree totally with this and as we have seen it costs us games so wouldn't bet on us making CFP and if so definitely can't make it all the way.

Hey this is Payton, one of the interns again, I wanted to take a deeper look into the roster makeup by recruiting class and transfers and was able to find some intriguing data. Here are two new By the Numbers graphics on roster makeup from the past few years, and how Texas’ transfer number compares nationally. The first breaks down who has taken Texas's snaps by signing class from 2023 to 2026, and shows transfers jumping from 16% last season to 41% this season. The second puts that 41% next to the AP top 12 and every SEC team, where Texas lands 15th of 23. I started by charting how many plays each Texas recruiting class gets as freshmen, sophomores, juniors and seniors. The 2025 class's numbers stood out, so I looked at where those snaps were going. The answer was transfers, who now take more snaps than the two biggest signing classes combined. That raised the next question: is 41% a lot? So I ran the same numbers for the AP top 12 and every SEC team. UCLA, Arkansas and Ole Miss are above 70%, while Georgia and Notre Dame are around 12%. Four of the AP top five are at 29% or lower. Do you think this is rise of transfer numbers at Texas is a bad thing? Should they continue to be above that magic 29% number?

lol

i bet poor joey high school had diarrhea after he read that

No doubt. and imagine this game if Texas had to go to Starkville and play against the cowbells on Halloween!

LOL! This is Post of the day material.

They moved the ball on OU D. Over looking anyone is a loss. We need to be ready to play rest of year and still could easily lose.

Given how this team has played so far, I see a lot of people overlooking Mississippi State. I know they don't have KT, but that doesn't mean they are a UTSA level game automatically. They didn't have Kamario Taylor last year either and we need an insane miracle to survive that game. I would love for Saturday to be a day where a ton of guys play and starters get some much needed rest, but if the team is overlooking Mississippi State as much as the fans are, that won't happen. By losing two games that you shouldn't have, the team can't afford to overlook anyone the rest of the year.

This is not correct. You must have gotten your data from MSN!

For some reason, regular season Kavan isn't as dominating as post-season Kavan. She hits another gear at the WCWS. OU's lineup is potent. They've always had the offense. The difference is that they haven't been able to get the top pitcher in the transfer portal like they used to pre-NIL days which allowed them to lock up the one of the few players able to shut down their offense. During their four-peat run from 2021-2024, 3 of the 4 aces on their staff were transfer pitchers. The only one that wasn't was Jordy Bahl (Frahm). Two years ago they tried to get Canady which likely would have gotten them a ship (thanks sand aggy). They've been bringing in transfer pitchers last few years as well but haven't been able to land the top of the elite pitchers like they previously did. Texas kept their ace and have solid help on paper. The lineup stands to be better this year (including new batting coach and offensive assistants). Texas' chances this year to win it all again are fairly good. Next year will be interesting depending on who stays as the only person who runs out of eligibility from the starting lineup is Vivi Martinez and Texas has already recruited an heir there.