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Perfect game preseason baseball rankings: Texas at 8 Other SEC teams in top 10: LSU (1), Tennessee (3), Bama (4), Miss St (6), Auburn (10)

Williams tore his ACL against OU in 2024 so he was less than a year removed from the injury at the start of the 2025 season. I believe Bobby or one of the OTF staff said that Muschamp was trying to keep him. And Blake Gideon returning helped since he originally recruited Williams. Strong endorsement when Muschamp was fighting to keep Williams.

Another player that Texas added late was Deriyan Pendigrass (OF), a graduate transfer from the College of Charleston. He has outstanding speed and will add much needed experienced depth to the OF. In 2025 he started 59 games for Charleston and hit 296, with 4 HR, 12 doubles, 3 triples and 37 RBIs. He also stole 43 bases in 47 attempts.

FG missed from: 46, 46, 45, 31, 56 FG made from: 37, 55, 38, 47, 52, 25, 50, 25, 55, 28, 37, 49, 44, 30, 31

Not @Jeff Howe but here is my rough preseason overview. Maybe Jeff @Blake Munroe or @CJ Vogel can correct omissions. I’m sure they are quite busy with portal news. Really getting excited about the Texas baseball team. Overall strengths are the number of outstanding arms assembled, though many are freshmen. Transfers Carson Tinney (C) and Aiden Robbins (OF) are exciting transfer additions. Temo Bacerra (Stanford transfer) adds much needed infield experience after hitting 330 last season and averaged 314 in his 3 seasons at Stanford. Mendoza, Rodriguez, Borba and Jonah Williams should all be front line returning starters. Weaknesses: Lack of depth at position players. POSITION PLAYERS: Third OF is a question mark unless Ashton Larson (LSU transfer) can become a consistent everyday player. Jonah Williams and Aiden Robbins are the other 2 OF starters. Robbins has a chance to be a star. Last season at Seton Hall in 53 games he hit 422, with 19 doubles, 5 triples, 6 HR, 38 RBIs, 20 stolen bases, 44 BB, 32 SO in 255 plate appearances. This summer Robbins won the Cape Cod summer league batting title with a 307 average. True freshman Anthony Pack is a speedster but needs to develop power but can help this team. Robbins, Williams and Ashton Larson “should” start. Anthony Pack and true freshman William Hill also plays OF along with true freshman Maddox Monsour who can play also play OF/INF. Rodriguez is currently the starting SS but let’s see if can keep the position. Becerra was moved from SS to third with Mendoza at 2nd and Borba moving to from third to first. Josh Livingston (Wichita State transfer) has power and is versatile. He can play 1st, 3rd, DH and maybe more. In 2025 with Wichita State he had 10 doubles, 15 HR and 48 RBIs in 56 games while hitting over .280. Texas also added Callum Early (Liberty transfer) who can play middle infield and some OF if needed. As a freshman at Liberty he made 28 starts. He hit .295, with 23 runs scored, six doubles, two HR and 15 RBIs. PITCHING Volantis moving to the starting rotation, Starting pitcher Luke Harrison returns. The other starter will probably come from a group that includes Jason Flores, Ruger Riojas or one of the freshman. I’m guessing they would like to keep Riojas in the long relief/swing starter role. Hopefully Flores can seize the opportunity. Not sure who the closer will be. They added a couple of relievers from the portal in Cal Higgins (Western Kentucky) and Haiden Leffew (Wake Forest). Relievers Max Grubbs, Thomas Burns, Ethan Walker, Kade Bing, Connor McCreery, Cody Howard and Hudson Hamilton return from last season. The freshman class of pitchers has a chance to be special. Hopefully a couple of them can make a big impact this season. Brett Crossland, Sam Cozart and Michael Winters are my favorite pitchers to have an instant impact but there is a ton of young talent so it will be fun to see who emerges. Our freshman class rankings per Perfect Game: Sam Cozart (RHP) 47 nationally overall, (9 ranked RHP) Brett Crossland (RHP), 62 overall, (11 ranked RHP) Cooper Rummel (RHP), 81 Jack McKernan (LHP), 135 Brody Walls (RHP), 162 Kaleb Rogers (RHP), 169 Grady Westphal (RHP), 194 Michael Winter (RHP), 274 Jack Paris (RHP), 500 Anthony Pack (OF), 32 overall nationally Maddox Monsour (OF/INF), 228 William Hill (OF), 241

What is Miller referring to when he says don’t cross the street and they do it anyways?

Actually. I wouldn’t mind getting the Duke RB. Maybe Florida thinks they can get a back equal to or better than Baugh and can sign him for less money. And save money for elsewhere. I wouldn’t break the bank for Baugh. I think he only had one run longer than ~ 20 yards and only scored 6 rushing TDs. The Duke running back had less carries, had a higher YPC and scored 10 rushing TDs. Baugh would help our RB room but is not a TD maker based on his stats.

Nm

Schloss mic’d up.

Geez. I win the bonehead of the year award…lol

99 yard TD run on the final play.

4th down stop.

Desoto trailed SLC 37-21 in the 3rd qtr before 2 TD and 2 two point conversions to tie the game at 37. SLC scored to go up 44-37 early in the 4th qtr. DeSoto tied it at 44 then went up 51-44 with just over 6 minutes remaining. SLC turns the ball over on downs and the forces DeSoto to punt. SLC blocks the punt and took over at the 32. SLC completed a pass to the 2. Then was sacked and had 3rd and goal from the 10. A pass interference penalty gave SLC a first and goal at the 2 with under a minute remaining. DeSoto stopped SLC on 4th down at the one. DeSoto took over on downs and on the on the final play of the game Sarod Baker had a 99 yard TD run and DeSoto won 57-44.

When you look at most watched games of 2025 thru rivalry weekend, the SEC had at least one team in 17 of the top 20 most watched games. The Big ten had at least one team in 4 of the top 20. The ACC had a team in 3 games and Notre Dame had one. Big XII had zero. 15 of the top 20 most watched games were conference games. 13 of the top 20 most watched games were SEC conference games. The Big Ten had 2 conference games. No other conference had one. The other 5 were non conference games. Big XII had zero. Cody Campbell knows this but he wants to ride the coattails of the most popular schools and mooch TV money once again. He has the Big XII good ole day syndrome when Texas and OU generated TV revenue for the everyone in the conference. Same with the PAC 12 where a few teams generated the lion share of TV revenue,

Don’t doubt that, but with that MO, how did they end up with Moore after Harbaugh left for the NFL. You would think they would have had a HC that had previous experience.

Texas Tech says hi.

What is the cost benefit if a loss keeps us out of the playoffs? With a 9 game SEC schedule next year 2 conference losses will be common.

Downside of having ex head coaches “assist” you for a year until they get their next head coaching job. They get to learn from your operation and poach from within. Seems like hiring the wrong analyst can do long term harm to your program.

We can control our OOC schedule. If we keep OSU on the schedule next year it’s our own fault.

I think it was that gritty 14-7 fourth qtr come from behind win over 1-11 Georgia State that did it. Ten of their 12 wins were against teams that didn’t have a winning record. Can’t make this up. ND, BYU, Texas, Vandy, Utah, Michigan, USC fans etc have to be shaking their heads. The committee successfully angered a ton of fans.

I hope Oregon beats James Madison 100-0.