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En route to a 12-2 record, a conference championship and the program’s first trip to the College Football Playoff, Steve Sarkisian fielded his most well-rounded, productive Texas offense in 2023. Through Sarkisian's five seasons, his third offense is the most prolific Longhorn attack in points per game (35.8), yards per play (6.67) and total offense (477.5 yards per game). Texas also tallied 244 explosive plays in 14 games (the fourth most in FBS), matching the 2024 offense’s 16-game total of plays from scrimmage that netted 10 or more yards. That’s the standard the 2026 offense is chasing. The current group has the tools to break the mold and establish a new bar for Sarkisian’s offenses on the Forty Acres. Nevertheless, two things must happen for the vision to come to fruition. If they do, the results the Arch Manning-led offense generates should surpass that of an offense that got the program to the cusp of playing for a national championship. — The beauty of the 2023 running back room is that even when Jonathon Brooks was lost for the season with a knee injury in a November road win over TCU, CJ Baxter and Jaydon Blue picked up the slack. The Longhorns had a top-25 running game nationally in yards per game (25th with 188.4) and yards per carry (20th with 5.01), avoiding a statistical decline without Brooks, who appeared on his way to All-American honors as a legit candidate for the Doak Walker Award at the time of his injury. Baxter (117 yards on 20 carries against Iowa State) and Blue (121 yards on 10 carries against Texas Tech) both recorded 100-yard rushing games after Brooks’ injury. Texas averaged 200.8 yards per game and 5.54 yards per attempt over the last four games of the season, including a 180-yard effort against Washington in the Sugar Bowl. The conditions are ripe (a revamped offensive line that’s created a push at times this spring against a stout defensive front) for Raleek Brown and Hollywood Smothers to run the ball with the kind of consistency the Longhorns have been missing over the last two years. What the offense needs from the overhauled backfield beyond that is for the trio of Brown, Smothers and Derrek Cooper (who, by all indications, has had a tremendous spring) to be the three-headed monster Sarkisian almost had in 2024. Tre Wisner emerged as an unlikely 1,000-yard rusher, but Baxter’s preseason knee injury resulted in Texas missing the between-the-tackles thumper to pair with Wisner and Blue. Can Brown and Smothers surpass the 2,473 scrimmage yards and 20 touchdowns that Blue and Wisner combined for that season? If they’re anywhere close to that level of production and are consistently effective enough to let Cooper’s role grow as he gains more experience, the Longhorns will have the goods to be the top backfield in the SEC. — Sarkisian detailed during his post-practice press conference on Tuesday how Cam Coleman and Ryan Wingo can mutually benefit by sharing the field. “Both of those guys are so accustomed to always having the safety cheating towards them,” Sarkisian said. “If you're only going to play with one safety, you can only cheat so many ways. If you're going to play with split safeties, surely that helps the run game." In December, I wrote about Wingo’s sophomore season production mirroring the numbers Xavier Worthy put up in 2022. While nobody should expect Wingo to get the same kind of target share as a junior that Worthy did (26.7 percent of the team’s targets went to Worthy in 2023), it’s possible that Wingo and Coleman taking advantage of the opportunities they get against favorable coverage could allow them to match or exceed the production of Worthy (75 receptions for 1,014 yards and five touchdowns) and Adonai Mitchell (55 catches for 845 yards and 11 touchdowns). Coleman and Wingo can definitely force defenses to play more two-high safety looks than they want. Still, a potent Texas running game, especially one in which opponents have to respect the run threat Manning presents, means opposing defensive coordinators would, at some point, have to devote an extra defender to stop the run. In 2023, defenses had to pick their poison when trying to slow down the Texas offense. The 2026 offense can present those same issues, but the personnel upgrades Sarkisian’s organization made during the transfer portal window could make the current offense even tougher to defend. View full news story

Both are type players teammates want on their team but hate playing against. Both a ball players.

Those would be great additions!

Let's assume three or four players violated team rules, why tell the world the team lacks heart? Why not just suspend the four for a few games. Tough on them. If he played them, after violating team rules, so we can win...not a great look.

He was none existent when we put belt to ass against the piggies though? 🤔🤔

That 2nd one against Connor almost looked like he gave him a massive left hook. Goodness that man is large.

Oh yeah, no doubt. I’m just concerned the IOL still isn’t good enough to beat good DL.

I heard that Colin Simmons had a monster practice today, hearing 6 sacks 😯

The o-line gets to practice against these monsters, we'll be fine

I believe this oline will be much better than last year on talent alone.

PTSD

I’ve seen this story before 😔

On the bright side, they likely won’t see a DL this big all year

iOL not holding up there end SHOCKER lol kidding that man is massive

Saw these two photos on social and wanted to share. The 378-pound Geffrard looks like a handful to have to stay in front of. Going to be interesting to see how much his game improves now that he is not required to play 400+ snaps a season. Geffard was the 2nd highest graded Arkansas defensive player last year when the Horns stuck 52 on the Razorback D in 2025. In 14 pass rush snaps, he registered a pressured and QB hurry.

List appears to be sorted alphabetically. Might not be the actual order of appearance?

The so called random tweet has been proven to be 100% correct by many now.

My guess is they strategically scheduled Texas last to keep as many media members around. Last year, the final day consisted of Sam Pittman, Mark Stoops, Eli Drinkwitz, and Mike Elko. While Drinkwitz might bring some entertaining responses, there wasn’t much incentive for others to stick around for the fourth day beyond those teams’ media members.

I don’t get it

So when it was the Nashville rant and players/parents were mad, it was Vic's fault. Now that it might be the players who screwed up and were called on it, "we may never know the truth".

@pinkman_90 Hi

If Texas ends up landing Gracie Merkle and Dani Carnegie, the missing piece that makes the whole thing work is a true point guard like Nevaeh Caffey. Merkle gives you something you didn’t have at all in a real low-post scoring presence, and Carnegie replaces a big chunk of the lost perimeter production, but neither solves the structure you lose with Rori Harmon. Add Caffey into that mix and now you have balance again, someone to control the game, keep turnovers down, and let everyone else play in their natural roles. At that point it’s not just a good rebuild, it’s actually a higher ceiling version of the roster because you’ve added interior scoring and perimeter firepower without sacrificing control.

Vic isn’t innocent of on going portal. The rant did play a part exists. Would you be pissed off with your coach if they publicly called you heartless, soft … Vic isn’t a innocent party in portal exists.