CJ Vogel

Another week, another honor for one of Kyle Flood's offensive linemen. Texas LT Kelvin Banks Jr. has been named the SEC Offensive Lineman of the Week for his play against Mississippi State on Saturday. Through five weeks, Banks becomes the third different Texas offensive lineman to receive the honor from the SEC, joining Cam Williams after Colorado State and Jake Majors after Michigan.

Duncanville 2026 EDGE KJ Ford returning to Texas.

Texas commit Devin Coleman back at DKR

Jermaine Bishop

Mid season Hudl: https://www.hudl.com/video/3/17633429/651b86fba67686145c07b5a9

A few visitors that were on campus for this game outside of the ones that were reported. Mostly in the 2026 class. *** Texas did host 2025 Midlothian OL Nelson McGuire for the Miss State game. McGuire holds 24 offers and took official visits to Texas Tech and Arkansas in the summer and has trips to Clemson, Vanderbilt and Auburn squared up for this season. Kyle Flood has yet to offer, McGuire is a possible senior evaluation with a stop in Sulpher Springs possible for the Longhorn staff. *** Of course the highlighted player in the 2026 class was DL Dylan Berymon who spoke with our @Gerry Hamilton after the visit. Get a look at what Berymon had to say to OTF: *** Willis 2026 star athlete Jermaine Bishop Jr. made it to campus. Bishop is one of the top overall athletes in the country. *** 2026 Sulphur Springs OL Vincent Johnson Jr. was on campus for the visit. Johnson Jr. stands 6-foot-5 and north of 300 pounds already. He holds offers from Oklahoma, TCU, Texas A&M, Texas State, Texas Tech, UTSA, UTEP and UNT. Really strong start to the DFW prospect's recruitment. Johnson is one to watch for Texas in the 2026 class. *** A handful of Prosper prospects were on campus for the Miss State game as well. The first being 2026 OL Bryce Gilmore. Already a national top-250 prospect in the country for the 2026 class, Gilmore holds 23 offers at the moment. Texas has yet to offer but obviously there is interest. The other being 2026 DL Jake Johnson who was on our pregame visitors list. Johnson holds North Texas and Washington State offers early. *** 2026 WR Mike Brown out of Legacy the School of Sports Sciences in Houston, Texas was back at Texas again on Saturday. Brown is the son of former A&M linebacker Reggie Brown, who was a first round pick in the NFL Draft. Brown has visited Texas three times since receiving his offer at the Elite Camp on June 1. Texas is going to be a player here for the junior with 10.9 sophomore speed.

Probably a good point. I did notice a few times when runs got through, it was the result of linebackers being out of position or not fitting the necessary gap instead of the DL being completely displaced. Both position groups will probably learn a lot on tape. It's been a bit of a theme for the LB to just bolt up hill without finding the ball, one of the few boom or bust tendencies with this defense.

Arch Manning season passing chart:

Missed Tackle count by PFF through five games for Texas: CSU: 3 MICH: 9 UTSA: 13 ULM: 12 MSST: 8 To be completely honest, the eight number feels very low against MSST. It felt much sloppier than that in the tackling department.

A quick look at the numbers that made this win possible for the Texas Longhorns on Saturday. *** Defensive Snap Count 75 possible defensive snaps. 72 – Barron 69 – Muhammad 67 – Hill Jr. 64 – Mukuba 59 – Guilbeau 49 – Broughton 47 – Moore 44 – Collins 43 – Sorrell, Taaffe, Gbenda 41 – Simmons 37 – McDonald 36 – Holmes 23 – Lole 21 – Burke, Blackwell 19 – Norton 9 – Vasek 8 – Lefau 6 – Jordon Johnson-Rubell 4 – Alex January Few takeaways: – 41 snaps is the most we have seen by Colin Simmons this season by a wide margin. He is on the Anthony Hill Jr. path where eventually it will be tough for him to be sideliend at all. He might already be there. – This is the start of Vasek seeing meaningful snaps. – Jordon Johnson-Rubell will not be redshirted, the staff really trusts him. – Tia Savea might be redshirt candidate. *** Offensive Snap Counts 64 possible snaps 64 – Helm, Manning, Majors, Banks, Conner, Williams 54 – Golden 52 – Bond 43 – Campbell 34 – Wisner 31 – Moore 25 – Davis 21 – Hutson 20 – Blue 18 – Wingo 10 – Gibson 7 – Cook 4 – Bolden 1 – Niblett – Gunnar Helm seeing every snap. He has been irreplaceable this year. *** Texas All-Time As an SEC Member A look at the record of the Texas Longhorns since joining the SEC. All-Time: 5-0 In SEC Play: 1–0 Not too bad! *** Top 15 Everything Scoring Offense: 11th (45.0) Scoring Defense: t-2nd (7.0) Total Offense: 8th (513.4) Total Defense: 6th (234.8) Tennessee, Texas, Indiana and Ohio State are the only four programs to be ranked top-15 in all four of those categories this year. Tennessee, Texas and Indiana are the only schools to have no trailed a single minute this season. *** Arch Manning Start 1 to Start 2 It was a magnificent development for Arch Manning in his second career start. Of course, after the UTSA game, perhaps expectations were a bit too high for the first time starter against ULM, but there were considered leaps in performance that led one of the best individual performances by a quarterback in all of the country this season. Completion Percentage ULM: 51.7% MSST: 83.9% ADOT ULM: 14.2 MSST: 8.4 Passes Beyond 20+ Yards ULM: 10 MSST: 4 Rushing Yards ULM: -4 MSST: 33 INT ULM: 2 MSST: 0 Overall, it was a fantastic performance from No. 16.

He runs like a smaller 2016 David Johnson imo.

I mean this is an unreal run. Beast Mode type stuff.

Best RB in the country.

That whole ordeal was insane. Replays on replays and it almost forced Sark to burn a timeout due to the playclock not resetting.

I sweat on his 27-yard run three of four MSST defenders gave up thinking he was just going to step out of bounds after he got the first down, just for them to look foolish when he turned up the sideline and *scored* Heck of a run regardless.

Indiana mention! lol They have been a cash cow this season

Zero turnover worthy plays on 35 dropbacks. Turn that up! Love it.

I know folks have differing opinions on Pro Football Focus, but I did want to share this about QB Arch Manning after last night. PFF gave Manning a grade of 94.2 for his performance against Mississippi State – that was the highest grade given out to a quarterback in all of college football for week five. Not just that, but it is the highest individual game grade given to a quarterback all season by PFF. Pretty high praise for a kid making his second career start and his first ever against an SEC team.

That is it for Sark. Ends with wanting to use the bye week to get healthy and find ways to capitalize on what was left on the bone today.

"We are seeing his impact in the run game more as the season goes on." Sark on Colin Simmons. Adds that Texas was able to add to his plate today by lining him up over centers and guards rather than just strictly tackles.

Sarkisian: "Hopefully we will get Quinn (Ewers) back for OU, we will seen."

It's a singer for Michael Taaffe says Sarkisian.