CJ Vogel

FWIW

For Trevor Goosby fans. Here are two really impressive reps, one pass pro, one in run game coming right behind him.

Texas did a fine job of managing the football game on Saturday against Texas A&M on the road in a hostile environment. With that said, they were able to own the time of possession in their favor as well. Texas: 34:38 Texas A&M: 25:22 Texas has ran 81 plays on the evening offensively, 50 of which were running plays. A look at the snap counts: *** Offensive Snap Counts Out of 81 possible snaps. 81 – Cam Williams, Hayden Conner, Jake Majors, Gunnar Helm 78 – Quinn Ewers 74 – Trevor Goosby 70 – Matthew Golden 67 – Quintrevion Wisner 66 – DJ Campbell 44 – Ryan Wingo 40 – DeAndre Moore, Isaiah Bond 33 – Juan Davis 16 – Jaydon Blue 15 – Cole Hutson 8 – Silas Bolden 5 – Amari Niblack – Most snaps of the season for Matthew Golden, he is the clear No. 1 in the circle of trust. He runs the right routes, he is on time, he is as reliable as they get. – 74 snaps for Trevor Goosby after stepping in for Kelvin Banks. Zero sacks, zero pressures, no holdings. Tremendous for 74. – That is a heck of a work load for Wisner. Keep in a green jersey until Atlanta in my opinion. *** Defensive Snap Count Out of a possible 58 snaps. 58 – Anthony Hill Jr. 57 – Malik Muhammad 55 – Jahdae Barron, Michael Taaffe 49 – Jaylon Guilbeau 40 – Trey Moore 38 – Barryn Sorrell 35 – Colin Simmons, Vernon Broughton 34 – Alfred Collins 32 – Jelani McDonald 30 – Liona Lefau 29 – Andrew Mukuba 24 – Jermayne Lole 21 – Ethan Burke 18 – Bill Norton 9 – David Gbenda 7 – Morice Blackwell Jr. 6 – Gavin Holmes, TyAnthony Smith – It isn't the highest snap count for Trey Moore, but it is the highest snap volume of the season. 40 of the 58 snaps and he played till the final whistle, coming up with the strip sack on the final play of the game defensively. – Guilbeau was nails. – Liona Lefau and Ethan Burke each had very impactful moments despite relatively low snap counts. – Bill Norton deserves recognition for his goal line and short distance performances as well. He was very good.

Feel good about Texas and Ffrench fwiw.

He will take some time to make a decision. In regards to Texas, I bet they kick the tires, but I don't think if they will go all out for him. Look at who Texas has pursued at WR in the portal under Sark – Neyor, Mitchell, Golden, Bond, all have elite production or multiple years of production

Georgia CB who started against Texas is in the portal, started against Texas in October.

Baller out of NC State

First and foremost.

Starting a quick tracker of the portal entries we see start to file in with the turn of the calendar to December. Signing day will garner a lot of excitement, but these will be some names to keep an eye on in the ever-changing landscape of college football.

Things got a bit more intense on both fronts from a Texas perspective.

Florida has flipped back 2025 defensive line commit Joseph Mbatchou from the Texas Longhorn 2025 class. The Longhorns had previously won the Mbatchou commitment just over a week ago on November 23rd, though it is the Gators who come in swinging to get the talented Georgia DL back into their class. Florida is going down swinging with their top remaining prospects and Texas will need to be on high alert for Jaime Ffrench and Myron Charles for the final hours of the ESD period. Texas is back down to 23 commits in the 2025 cycle.

Not yet.

Top seed in the SEC.

That's all for today.

Sarkisian says part of the running game improvement has been 12 personnel with Juan Davis and Gunnar on the field together. Sarkisian says the package helps protect the edges a bit more later in the game. Says it does not matter the personnel, the staff feels good about being about to run wide zone in every look.

Sarkisian says Vernon Broughton is playing from a leaders' perspective, instead of a follower's perspective and that has helped add a lot of confidence to his game this season.

Sarkisian lists a couple reasons for the improved play of the seconadry so far this season. 1. Jahdae Barron returning to play CB and moving around in the secondary. 2. The hiring of Johnny Nansen 3. The Addition of Andrew Mukuba 4. The development of that group which has turned into a veteran position with the core group (Taaffe, Barron, Mukuba, Muhammad)

Sarkisian says he didn't think the moment was ever too big for Trevor Goosby stepping in for the injured Banks. Added he was really proud of him stepping into the role.

Sarkisian says about a month ago, there was an added emphasis to cleaning up the running game. Closing down on penalties, finding the rhythm and figuring out schemes that work consistently.

Sarkisian says there were things in the A&M game that went the way he didn't like – missed FG, blocked punt, red zone miscues.

"What Kirby has done at Georgia over the last nine years has been incredible... This will obviously be a heck of a challenge, going to Atlanta and competing against them." – Sark.

Texas will be the home team in the SEC Championship Game. "This is a heck of an honor" Says Sarkisian.