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Question for the board ... Favorite all-time football player Can be NFL, college or otherwise ... or one in each Who are your favorites?

A lot of people are posting stuff like this on social media. Careful out there.

lol.....It really does feel like we’re in that weird pre‑kickoff warp where time stops moving. My heart’s already in DKR, my brain’s already screaming ‘LET’S GO,’ and my body is still pretending to do Wednesday things. Every hour feels like a countdown. Texas football has officially taken over the week

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Mack Brown embarrassed himself killing himself recruiting in Florida.

I think going for it depends on two things: 1. The situation. Is it early or late? Do you have a lead or are you playing from behind? Is your defense playing well? Is it a high- or low-possession game? 2. Do you have a call you believe in? This has been my main issue with Sark in these situations. When he's got something in his back pocket that he feels good about, there are few in football who can draw up something better. Sometimes, it feels like he's either grab-bagging or isn't sure he what he wants (see the quarterback sneak in Columbus last season). That's a lot of words to say that I think it depends on whether you take the points or not. I lean toward taking the points, but at some point, championship teams have to show the willingness to go for the kill and get the job done.

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It's Wednesday, but it feels like we're just a few hours away from kickoff.

AUSTIN, Texas — The most fascinating matchup when No. 4 Texas welcomes No. 1 Ohio State to DKR is between two men who won’t play a snap on Saturday (6:30 p.m., ABC). Ryan Day has turned the Buckeye offense over to Arthur Smith, the former Atlanta Falcons coach who spent the last two seasons as the Pittsburgh Steelers’ offensive coordinator. Steve Sarkisian hired Will Muschamp as the head coach of the Longhorn defense when he brought him back for his second stint on the Forty Acres, which started with last week's 59-7 thumping of Texas State. Wisely, neither coach showed much in their respective openers. Still, their units produced big plays in lopsided season-opening wins. Smith’s Ohio State offense rolled up 671 total yards (9.3 yards per play), with seven plays from scrimmage that went for 20 yards or more (the Buckeyes averaged 4.1 20-plus-yard plays per game in 2025) in a 56-3 rout of Ball State. Muschamp’s defense forced three Bobcat turnovers last Saturday, including Rasheem Biles' forced fumble, which led to Graceson Littleton's 59-yard scoop-and-score. Both coordinators want to highlight players who can take over the game. Smith would love to facilitate Jeremiah Smith’s breakout game against Texas. That's one of several facets of the Ohio State offense that poses problems for Muschamp's group. The Longhorns held arguably the most talented offensive player in the country without a touchdown in two meetings with the Buckeyes. Smith turned 13 targets into seven catches for 46 yards and two dropped passes against Texas, according to Pro Football Focus; the Cotton Bowl (one catch for three yards) is Smith’s least productive game in the 30 he’s played for Ohio State, while last season’s yardage total in Columbus is the seventh-lowest he’s recorded in a game. Arthur Smith went with a heavy dose of 12 personnel (one running back, two tight ends) to help the Buckeyes get the running game untracked (Smith’s offenses with the Steelers ranked in the top half of the NFL in snaps out of 12 personnel in 2024 and 2025, respectively). While Ohio State entered halftime with 35 net rushing yards on 17 attempts (2.1 yards per carry) against the Cardinals, the running game exploded in the second half, ending the day with 237 net yards on the ground (249 yards and 7.5 yards per attempt when adjusted to exclude two sacks). Muschamp’s defense is expected to throw multiple looks at what should be a more dynamic offense, quarterbacked by Heisman Trophy finalist Julian Sayin. That means using Biles and Colin Simmons, who finished last season’s 14-7 loss to the Buckeyes with two tackles and a critical penalty that aided a Buckeye touchdown drive, as moveable chess pieces, which will force the Ohio State offensive line and Sayin to communicate amid a raucous crowd when locating two of college football’s best box defenders before the snap. “When you have a plan against somebody like him, you can't just throw all fastballs,” Sarkisian said on Monday. “As good a fastball as you have, if that's all you've got, sooner or later they're going to hit it. We've got to be able to mix our pitches up and how we defend him and how we defend the scheme. Arthur and Ryan, they believe in running the ball. They've got a good runner (Bo Jackson and Florida transfer Ja’Kobi Jackson both rushed for 83 yards and a touchdown against Ball State) and a good O-line. They've got other weapons. “Not every game you go into where you say, 'Hey, we need to know where this guy is every snap,'” he added. “We'd better know where No. 4 is on every snap.” Arthur Smith must put together a plan that unlocks Jeremiah Smith and creates playmaking opportunities for the Buckeyes’ other weapons, including UTSA transfer wide receiver Devin McCuin, who caught six passes for 97 yards and a touchdown in his Ohio State debut. Carnell Tate took advantage of the attention paid to Smith, catching seven balls for 87 yards in the Cotton Bowl and hauling in a game-clinching 40-yard touchdown last season at the Horseshoe. The biggest question Muschamp faces is whether he can maximize his edge over the Ohio State offense. It's a role reversal from last season when Matt Patricia, who hadn’t called a game defensively since his three-year stint as the Detroit Lions coach ended in 2020, made life difficult for Sarkisian's offense in Arch Manning’s first-ever road start. The shoe is on the other foot in 2026, with Day and Smith trying to figure out what Muschamp, who hadn't been an in-game defensive play-caller since 2020 before doing so against Texas State, will do. “Coach Muschamp's a great coach, and we all have a lot of respect for him,” Day said on Tuesday. “But he really hasn't called the game in a while, so there's unknown here on how it's going to play out, what they're going to do defensively. We have to be able to respond to that in-game and figure that part of it out.” Other matchups to watch when No. 4 Texas hosts No. 1 Ohio State on Saturday: — Texas WRs Cam Coleman and Ryan Wingo vs. Ohio State CBs Jermaine Matthews Jr. and Devin Sanchez Does Patricia have faith that his highly-touted cornerbacks can win one-on-one battles with the talented Longhorn wideouts? The Buckeyes dropped a lot of defenders into coverage in last season’s matchup with Texas, but that was against a wide receiver group without Emmett Mosley V (injury), with Wingo as the only proven commodity. While the Longhorns would love to take advantage of the speed and playmaking ability on the perimeter down the field, that can only happen if Manning can adequately execute the quick passing game and if Texas can run the football with any measure of consistency. — Texas Interior Offensive Line vs. Ohio State DTs Eddrick Houston and John Walker Taking away Raleek Brown’s 21-yard touchdown run in the third quarter brings into focus how the Longhorns struggled to run the football between the tackles against Texas State. Minus Brown’s scamper on a delayed handoff, Texas recorded 14 rushing attempts on A- and B-gap runs for 37 yards (2.6 yards per attempt), with a 7-yard run by James Simon the longest of the day. It’s a much tougher challenge for Connor Robertson, Brandon Baker and whoever’s in the game at left guard (Sarkisian said Monday that the plan for now is to continue rotating Laurence Seymore and Dylan Sikorski) this week against the Buckeyes. Houston and Walker, a transfer from UCF, can go a long way toward wrecking Sarkisian’s game plan by winning the line-of-scrimmage battle. It’s imperative that the Longhorns prevent that from happening. — Texas Edges Lance Jackson and Zina Umeozulu vs. Ohio State OTs Phillip Daniels and Ian Moore The trench concerns for the Buckeyes reside on the edges, where Daniels was benched early in the win over Ball State. It’s a given that Ohio State has to know where Simmons is, but this would be a great time for Jackson or Umeozulu to emerge as the kind of pass-rushing threat who can make teams pay for playing them straight up. Texas forcing Arthur Smith to put an extra tight end on the field to deal with edge pressure is a lot different than the Buckeyes’ offensive coordinator utilizing 12 personnel purely out of personal preference. Simmons needs one of the two edge defenders opposite him to start taking steps toward being a reliable threat who can be counted on to get to the quarterback. — Texas LB Justin Cryer vs. Ohio State QB Julian Sayin Last season, Sayin was tremendous when attacking the middle of the field. According to PFF, 27 percent of his pass attempts in 2025 came on throws between the hashes and within nine yards of the line of scrimmage, which accounted for the highest percentage of his throws. Sayin was 96-for-106 through the air for 888 yards, three touchdowns and two interceptions when throwing the ball to the part of the field Cryer will be responsible for covering. Furthermore, Sayin was 26-for-33 for 424 yards, five touchdowns and one interception on middle-of-the-field throws from 10-19 yards down the field (93.9 PFF grade); his 99.9 PFF grade on middle-field throws of 20 yards or more beyond the line of scrimmage was his highest-graded target area of the season (19-for-24, 763 yards, eight touchdowns and one interception). Until proven otherwise, the path of least resistance trying to move the football against the Longhorns is to force Cryer and the Texas safeties to make plays in space. The second and third levels of the defense handled the challenge they faced from Texas State, but the degree of difficulty accomplishing the task will be cranked up several notches on Saturday. View full news story

Go listen to the Ricky Williams Stampede podcast where Mack and Ricky talk about not embarrassing each other in public. It's a great story and approach.

No way this is real 220 for each reads scam to me!

Hope he sics them on OSU lol

That is just ridiculous NCAA will get a stay I’m quite sure

That’ll get him the first 3…

The people I was referencing are not coming to the game. They will come later in the season. I'm not talking about his mom, to be clear.

lol

Now’s the time for him to take out the trash…

remember those other generals that handed me the spears that i killed the dragon with

Elliott is stubborn and hard to play for....When you are winning those are not issues but when the losses start it stands out... Hopefully they figure it out.

The last 2 recruiting classes ranked #1!

Baker has moved back to his high school personality during his second NFL career. I applaud this change.

I applaud the action, hate the person.