Texas defeated the No. 7 team in the country on Saturday night without –

• RB1 Hollywood Smothers
• RB3 Derrek Cooper
• WR1 Cam Coleman
• LT1 Trevor Goosby
• EDGE1 Colin Simmons
• EDGE4 Richard Wesley
• S2 Kobe Black

For those keeping track at home, that is...

3 projected first round picks, one being the best defensive player in the country.

2 five-star freshmen contributors

An All-ACC RB in 2025.

A 6-game starter at safety.

....

Not to mention 14 penalties and three turnovers.

...

But that is a heck of a win given snaps on the sidelines and the (continued and repeated) self-inflicted wounds.

The penalties drive me nuts but any win is a "good" win for the rest of the year.  Need to steal one in Baton Rouge! 

By the way, I don't suspect the self-inflicted wounds to cease. That's who this team is and that's who this staff has allowed them to be.

3 minutes ago, Rockin TL said:

Always been this way under Sark, always will be this way.

Basically how I look at it.

7 minutes ago, CJ Vogel said:

By the way, I don't suspect the self-inflicted wounds to cease. That's who this team is and that's who this staff has allowed them to be.

Success rate (similar to Miami Hurricanes):

— Gaining 50%+ of yards needed to move the chains on 1st down

— 70%+ of yards needs to move the chains on 2nd

— 100% of yards needs to move the chains on 3rd and 4th down.

 

6 minutes ago, CJ Vogel said:

Basically how I look at it.

This is not the sunshine I was looking for in this post!

14 minutes ago, CJ Vogel said:

By the way, I don't suspect the self-inflicted wounds to cease. That's who this team is and that's who this staff has allowed them to be.

 

And it's why they will likely never win a Natty here. 

Coach Saban said consistency is what makes a team or player elite. Until Texas gets some consistency, no kool-aid drinking for me. 

I’m not sure I’d consider coleman WR1 anymore. Wingo is the one playing up to that title for us. 

3 hours ago, CJ Vogel said:

By the way, I don't suspect the self-inflicted wounds to cease. That's who this team is and that's who this staff has allowed them to be.

This is the way!

3 hours ago, CJ Vogel said:

Basically how I look at it.

Meaning the staff views penalties as a necessary evil for the players to play free and uninhibited?  How many drive extending personal fouls or excessive celebrations would be deemed too much?  

Juice Cryer is becoming one of my favorite players on this team, but even hi ran straight for Bevo after his interception to celebrate.  It's a judgement call if that was too much or not, but why even risk it?  We were luck as shxt to only get a sideline warning on that play.  

1 minute ago, Rockin TL said:

It means Sark is undisciplined and so is his team. 

how is Sark undisciplined?  Is he obese?  Does he lead a dubious lifestyle?  

I will Raise you  

-5*Michael Terry ! 

- 5* Michael Bishop

- throw in a Justis Terry defense explosion! 

Texas offense has to score 30 plus if wanna win out!

 

 

Texas IS consistent.

 

Consistently

-asleep in the 3rd quarter 

-lacking on special teams 

-playing with too loose or emotions 

-playing up to big games 

-playing down to opponents 

23 minutes ago, Rockin TL said:

It means Sark is undisciplined and so is his team. 

Seems like a pretty 'buttoned-up' guy to me.   

This game seemed a little different to me.  Yes there were a couple of absolute bone head incidents.............but all in all our penalties were from being over aggressive.  For the first time all season, we played with our tails on fire.  Frankly, I (and my newest best frient Spec's), will live it!

I don’t know if it’s just me but every time Gomer Pyle refs are games he is always flag happy! He looks like an A&M fan.

Edited October 26Oct 26 by Aaron Hawn

4 hours ago, CJ Vogel said:

By the way, I don't suspect the self-inflicted wounds to cease. That's who this team is and that's who this staff has allowed them to be.

Thanks for the clouds to cover the sunshine Cadillac Jameson! What happened to Kobe?!

18 hours ago, CJ Vogel said:

By the way, I don't suspect the self-inflicted wounds to cease. That's who this team is and that's who this staff has allowed them to be.

It’s like he’s trying to channel his Phil Jackson zen mode.  Kosi cannot continue to play that out of control.  He was killing us on special teams.

21 hours ago, MBHORNSFAN said:

 

And it's why they will likely never win a Natty here. 

We've had 31 head coaches and 2 have won a national title. 

So basically we're Charlie Brown and we're never going to get to kick that football 🏈 ...

6 hours ago, Rockin TL said:

Claimed national titles*

1914 - Dave Allerdice
1941 - Dana Bible
1968 - DKR
1977 - Fred Akers
1981 - Fred Akers

That would be 3 additional coaches

1983, why did we even try to field that punt vs Georgia 😭

Also kind of shows you how much we've underachieved as a program.

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

On 10/26/2026 at 3:29 PM, Aaron Hawn said:

I don’t know if it’s just me but every time Gomer Pyle refs are games he is always flag happy! He looks like an A&M fan.

LOL!  This is Post of the day material.