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24a row 34 can’t wait

It's the best environment for any college football game, would be a horrible mistake to change this. Now, OU may be so poor soon that they will refuse to do it and all will be ruined but I hope that's not the case.

Headed out tomorrow. 10C Row 1, Lets go! 🤘

I know they formerly paid each school 500,000 for the game and possibly part of the gate as well though I am not sure. They renegotiated things a couple of years ago and have not seen the details on that.

Fly out of San Antonio tomorrow, connect in Nashville. who all is going? Been to Columbus a bunch since wife is there but looking forward to wearing my Burnt Orange around the town for 3 days. Lets Go!

I am now in pre-game hype "black-out" mode. No more talk. Let's get the game played and see where the chips fall.

Man I can't believe I forgot him. GREAT call.

Time for the Nebraska's USC, UCLA, Wisconsin's and Iowa's to step up. Two are obviously new to the Big Ten but have been down in recent years.

From The Athletic: Cooper Manning is bracing for impact. He is locked in a three-point stance and ready for a blitz of rapid takes about his son, the quarterback for a football-mad school in a football-mad state. “I’m fully prepared for a little bit of everything,” Manning said. And for good reason. As the shaggy-haired face of the Texas Longhorns, his son Arch – you might’ve heard of him — is approaching his debut as a full-time college starter that stands among the most forbidding opening acts in the history of the sport. Ohio State. Defending champs. On the road. “There’s nowhere to hide,” Cooper said. It’s must-see TV because the Mannings are the Kennedys of American football, the closest thing the game has to a royal family. That’s why Cooper is getting himself ready for a rush of emotions that will be awfully hard to control. His father Archie was a No. 2 overall draft pick and two-time Pro Bowler, and his brothers, Peyton and Eli, were both No. 1 overall draft picks and two-time Super Bowl champs. Everyone has expected at least the same level of greatness from Cooper’s son since the day he accomplished something at Isidore Newman School in New Orleans that Peyton and Eli did not. Arch became the varsity starter as a freshman. Six years later, the most hyped, publicized, talked-about, tweeted-about high school athlete of the social media age (LeBron James was in the NBA before the advent of the major platforms) will finally jog through a tunnel with a college team to call his own. The Longhorns, ranked the preseason No. 1 team in America because Arch Manning is their quarterback, will meet the No. 3 Buckeyes on Saturday in Columbus, Ohio. “And I know there’s no way Arch is going to live up to the hype and expectations,” Cooper told The Athletic recently. “I’ve known that’s coming.” Cooper was merely saying it would be impossible for any quarterback who has made only two starts — in relief of the injured Quinn Ewers last season — to honor the forecasts that have him as the slam-dunk No. 1 overall pick in whichever NFL Draft he enters, and as a future Sunday superstar whose athletic ability should elevate him above his uncles. And Arch’s father was merely expressing frustration with the media machine that needs inflamed reactions ASAP to keep the whole thing rolling. But this question had to be asked: What if Arch Manning does live up to the hype and expectations? Cooper paused when he heard that one over the phone. “There will be ups and downs, good plays and great plays and bad plays,” he’d say, “but everybody wants to make a judgment call on a very small body of work. You see a quarterback in one preseason game and they want to crown him or kill him, and it’s a little much. But I’m excited about the whole season and looking forward to seeing the mistakes Arch makes in Week 1 that he doesn’t make in Week 2.” Anyone who cares about college football should be excited about this whole season. We never got to see LeBron play a year at Duke. We will get to see Arch play one or two years at Texas, and there is every reason to believe he will validate all the wonderful things said about him. And then some. He has Cooper’s perspective, Archie’s feet, Peyton’s arm and Eli’s composure. One fellow member of the New York Giants who helped Eli win those two Super Bowls, Lawrence Tynes, said his teammate was “the most consistent human being I’ve ever played with. If you can build a player to handle playing quarterback in New York, you would build an Eli.” And if you could build a player to navigate the chaos of high-stakes major college football, you would build an Arch. He has the bloodlines and the institutional knowledge to ultimately match where Tennessee’s Peyton and Ole Miss’ Archie and Eli landed in the Heisman Trophy voting — in the top three. Beyond that, he is a modern-day Manning in every sense, equipped with the footspeed that Peyton and Eli would’ve cut a Faustian deal for. Cooper was the fastest of the Manning boys and a gifted wide receiver until spinal stenosis ended his career in college, and his wife, Ellen, was a high school track star. They passed down their wheels to Arch, who was clocked by Reel Analytics at a top speed of 20.7 mph on a 67-yard touchdown run last year against the University of Texas-San Antonio. Arch’s high school coach at Isidore Newman, Nelson Stewart, said he hand-clocked the quarterback in the low 4.5 range in the 40-yard dash, better than his reported time of 4.6 and the 4.59 once posted at the draft combine by reigning Super Bowl MVP Jalen Hurts. Though Peyton and Eli were 6-5 craftsmen who worked around the limitations of their dad bods, their nephew is a ripped and rangy 6-4 wideout disguised as a quarterback, a baller with the explosiveness required to create separation from the defense. “Arch is a pretty unbelievable athlete,” said Stewart, now the head coach at the Westminster Schools in Atlanta. “Arch can dunk and he was our longest broad jumper and he makes insane off-platform throws. (Ole Miss coach) Lane Kiffin saw him and said he’s like Josh Allen in the way you can run quarterback sweeps with him. He can do anything. He’s even great at mimicking the dropbacks of a bunch of quarterbacks in the NFL, including Peyton’s.” Arch was hardly the only kid to imitate the first-ballot Hall of Famer. Peyton was a legend from way back, the kind of high school recruit who made the grownups at Division I schools do silly, silly things. Herschel Walker was that kind of recruit, along with the likes of Marcus Dupree, Todd Marinovich, Tim Tebow and Trevor Lawrence. “But I’d argue that the most intense recruitment in the history of college football was Arch Manning’s,” Stewart told The Athletic. “His recruitment was crazier than anyone ever knew. It was a tornado. It was my life for four years and every day from 6 a.m. to whenever I pulled up. Constant calls and an all-out blitz on the Newman campus of people trying anything they could to get in front of this kid. “I had recruiters waiting in my office at all hours. Everyone was like, ‘Can I just shake his hand?’ I just took that barrage and it was the most stressful time of my life. I had a Power 5 coach going 50 mph on St. Charles Avenue to get in front of a bus to say hi to Arch. It was unlike anything you’ve ever seen, where everyone wants to be his best friend. (Texas assistant) AJ Milwee called me more than my wife did the last two years.” One Alabama assistant, Pete Golding, who described Texas head coach Steve Sarkisian as his best friend, even brought up Sark’s past struggles with alcoholism in a conference call with Arch (with friends like that …), according to bestselling author Seth Wickersham in his book American Kings. Golding was naturally feeling the heat from an overlord known as “Daddy,” Nick Saban. “Every school in the country was willing to give Arch anything and to do anything to get him there, and I don’t think it ever mattered to him,” Stewart said. “He never got caught up in it. He just wanted to go to a school that he loved with an innovative coach like Sark who allowed him to flourish.” Arch didn’t make a panic move for the transfer portal during his two seasons as an understudy. He watched and learned and got bigger and better. Sarkisian prepared him like a starter, and along the way, Arch’s father showed him a few things about the game too. Despite the pocket pedigree of Archie, Peyton and Eli, “Coop taught Arch how to play football,” the quarterback’s mother told The Athletic’s Bruce Feldman. So no, that won’t be Peyton’s or Eli’s boy out there Saturday in Columbus. Cooper will find his seat among fellow Texas parents in The Horseshoe and then he might even remind himself to avoid repeating his father’s mistakes during Peyton’s NFL debut with the Indianapolis Colts in 1998. The camera caught Archie looking disgusted and hanging his head after a couple of Peyton’s interceptions against Miami, and that night, the son told his old man to never, ever do that again. And Archie never did. “I’m not quite sure how I’ll be, but I’ll try to be calm and cool and really enjoy this,” Cooper said. “It’s a fun time for our family to see Arch living out his dream. He’s come a long way and I’ll enjoy it the best I can and not grind out every third-down incompletion. That’s what I’ll try to do … but I may be totally full of it.” Nothing is guaranteed with these opening days, on any level. Uncle Eli lost his first NFL start to Michael Vick and the Falcons before Vick assured him afterward that he would be “just like your brother in due time.” Eli lost his next five Giants starts. His father was so afraid to watch one of them, against Ray Lewis and the Ravens, that he went to bed before kickoff and told his wife, Olivia, to wake him only if something good happened. Archie slept through the entire nightmare. Eli was 4-for-18 for 27 yards with two interceptions and a 0.00 passer rating. Eli’s nephew will surely do better than that against Ohio State. And if not, he will surely recover in time to be an imposing force in the SEC. “The target’s not on our back,” Arch said, “but we’ve got a red dot on everyone else.” He’s humble, but he’s not shy about where he plans to lead this team. By all accounts, Arch has been a relatively ego-free prodigy who hasn’t gotten lost in the hysteria around his presence. He has tuned out major-college madness just like Eli once tuned out New York. “I feel like I’m a pretty normal guy, like to hang out with my buddies, play golf,” Arch said at SEC media days. “I take football pretty seriously, but other than that, just a regular guy.” Just an Average Joe being pumped up for his way-above-average football genes. Merriam-Webster defines “hype” as “promotional publicity of an extravagant or contrived kind.” You can see why any parent or kid would want to scramble away from that. Though Arch Manning never asked for this buildup, it’s a safe bet one of two things is going to happen here. 1) He’s going to live up to the hype. 2) He’s going to exceed it.

In all fairness to Arch you are correct, his grandpa Arch Sr. even said the same thing and also agreed with Steve Spurrier to cool the Hype. Spurrier point was if Arch was the second coming a Heisman leader and 1st round draft pick, then why didn't he start over Ewers last year who was only a 7th round draft pick. I think Arch is pretty level headed and will be a helluva a football player and will be rooting for his success. Now as a Buckeye fan I hope he struggles this Saturday.

We'll be there with 4 in our group!

Go to hell.

Arch has said the same thing about himself, but I still want to tell Urban to eff off.

That's probably the case, revenue sharing injecting funds and a decrease in burden on collectivez

Metcalf

Sergio Kindle wore #2. I liked watching him play.

"Arch Manning hasn't done a thing yet." That was Urban Meyer's blunt assessment of college football's most-talked-about quarterback during a recent appearance on "The Joel Klatt Show." While the Texas redshirt sophomore has only appeared in 12 games with two starts in his collegiate career, his last name and recruiting pedigree continue to generate massive expectations — including being the favorite to win the Heisman in 2025 and to be the No. 1 overall pick in the 2026 NFL Draft. But Meyer wants to see Manning play at an elite level before falling for "Arch Mania." In fact, the former Ohio State head coach believes Manning should be managed conservatively by Texas coach Steve Sarkisian in Saturday’s game against No. 3 Ohio State (noon ET on FOX and the FOX Sports app). "I’m hearing the word Heisman. I’m hearing the words national champion and first pick overall," Meyer said. "I went back and watched [him] recently. He’s a good player. He's a really good player. But get a couple of first downs." With Manning now entrenched as Texas’ starting quarterback, the Longhorns enter the season as the betting favorite to win the national championship. However, Meyer pointed to their "good defense" as a reason to keep things simple for Manning in Saturday’s game. "I'd be shocked if you saw something wild with these two teams early in the game," Meyer said. "I'd be very restrictive as far as throwing that ball between the hash marks. Your heart starts [beating fast]. It’s like that point guard that gets all excited. You know what happens? The ball is bouncing off the back of the rim. Why? Because he’s excited." As Meyer alluded to there, he would also ask Ohio State quarterback Julian Sayin to play a conservative style if he were still the Buckeyes' head coach. With Sayin making his first career start on Saturday, Meyer said that the sophomore quarterback is his biggest concern for the Buckeyes. "Julian Sayin is going to be the biggest question mark," Meyer said. "Offensive line, they lost four starters, but I’m hearing this is the best depth they’ve had and they feel really good about the O-line. The tight end, [Max Klare], the transfer from Purdue, is an excellent player. Very athletic, which you saw. Then, Carnell Tate and Brandon Inniss at the other receiver spots to complement Jeremiah [Smith]. "So, the long-winded answer is: I don't think there's much of a drop-off early in the year. I don't see him scoring a ton of points early. I see them hanging in there and playing, especially in this one [against Texas]. … I see this being kind of a low-scoring game, winning with defense, until that offense gets cooking." Like Manning, Sayin was also a highly-rated recruit. He was the third-rated quarterback in the Class of 2024 (via 247Sports), originally committing to Alabama before transferring to Ohio State after Nick Saban’s retirement. Sayin edged out redshirt sophomore Lincoln Kienholz to be named the starting quarterback, with Ryan Day not officially naming a starter until this past week. With Sayin and Kienholz entrenched in the quarterback battle throughout spring and fall camp, Joel Klatt said that he heard from people around the Ohio State program that it reminded them of the quarterback battle between Dwayne Haskins and Joe Burrow in 2018. "They're saying that this is similar, where it's Julian's ability to throw the football that just brings the ceiling so much higher, in particular with the weapons on the outside, like Smith and Tate," Klatt said." But Kienholz made it tough just because of his grittiness, his athleticism — maybe not in direct comparison to the style of Burrow — but this idea that there's this gritty competitor there that just made it tough on them to name a starter." Even though Ohio State is dealing with inexperience at quarterback and has to replace 14 players who went to the NFL from its national championship-winning team, the Buckeyes arguably have the most talented roster in the nation. Smith and safety Caleb Downs are widely viewed as the best players on their respective sides of the ball, while Ohio State ranks third in 247Sports’ team talent composite rating. "I hate to say it like this, because you never want your quarterback to play like this, but he can't screw it up," Meyer said of Sayin. "They got excellent coaches. Ryan’s an expert quarterbacks coach. You give him so many easy throws. You don’t need to win this game, Julian. You do not have to do that. You have enough cats around you. "You’re going to see a bunch of screens, I would imagine, to Jeremiah and the crew. You're going to see a strong run game. You're going to see easy throws. I would always tell these young quarterbacks, give us two first downs and your job is accomplished. That's all you got to do." Full story: https://www.foxsports.com/stories/college-football/arch-manning-hasnt-done-thing-yet-urban-meyer-eyes-low-scoring-texas-osu-game

If Golden had spent more time as a Longhorn he would definitely be ranked higher. Loved both Metcalf and RJ too.

Yep Texas is long overdue for another national championship in football. A program like Texas should win one at least once every ten seasons and get to that game at least twice a decade if they have their spit together from the top down. That’s basically what Ohio State has done this century. Hoping to get at least one in the Manning era and go from there. At least the next natties Texas wins will be legit, so there’s that.

The B1G’s middle was better than the middle of the SEC as well last season, I think it’ll be again this season.

Chris Simms

Dude Wipes are awesome.

As a Texas fan, I would think you would understand Texas has one national championship in how many years, and struggled in the Big 12. Let’s not act like Texas is the SEC

Mods please ban OP