Jeff Howe

M4: Texas 7, UTSA 7

End of 1: Texas 4, UTSA 0

It's a four-run, three-hit first for the Longhorns against the Roadrunners.

After Doza steals second, Borba comes through with RISP against UTSA's Blayne Lyne. A single through the left side makes it 4-0, Texas.

It's first and third with two outs for the Longhorns and Borba is up.

An RBI sacrifice fly to deep center by Larson makes it 2-0 in favor of the Longhorns.

UTSA is making a pitching change with the bases loaded and one out. Texas has a 1-0 lead.

Doza draws a bases-loaded walk. Robbins scores and it's 1-0 lead for the Longhorns.

As I was typing my last post, A-Rod singled to right to load the bases with no outs.

Texas has something cooking in the bottom of the first. Two on with nobody out after Robbins walks and Tinney singles.

UTSA comes into the game ranked No. 38 in the RPI.

M1: Texas 0, UTSA 0

Grubbs goes flyout, groundout, strikeout to retire the Roadrunners in order in the top of the first.

The last midweek game of the 2026 season is underway on SEC Network Plus. Anthony Pack Jr. is getting the day off. Max Grubbs gets the start for the Longhorns against the Roadrunners.

In case anyone was wondering, I didn't include conference championship games as regular-season games. If I had, the 2018 team would've faced six ranked opponents before the bowl game.

It’s debatable where Texas should be slotted in the host of post-spring practice rankings being published, with CBS Sports, ESPN and USA Today placing the Longhorns among college football’s top five clubs in 2026. What can’t be disputed is that Steve Sarkisian’s squad is facing a difficult schedule in his sixth season. ESPN’s Bill Connelly and CBS Sports believe the 12-game slate is the toughest in the country, with Texas set to face eight teams included in CBS Sports’ post-spring rankings, six post-spring ranked opponents from USA Today’s too-early Top 25 and eight of the 20 highest-rated teams in Connelly’s most recent SP+ rankings. The 2025 schedule had a case to be the toughest road slate ever navigated by a Longhorn team. Not including the annual neutral-site tussle with Oklahoma at the Cotton Bowl, the Longhorns faced Ohio State, Florida and Georgia on the road. Two top-10 opponents (Vanderbilt and Texas A&M) also made their way to Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium last season. Regardless of where the Buckeyes, Gators and Bulldogs rank, visiting Columbus, Gainesville and Athens in the same season is a daunting task, something the Longhorns found out the hard way. Still, becoming the first FBS team since LSU in 2019 to record three regular-season wins over top-10 opponents, with victories over the Sooners, Commodores and Aggies, was the strongest argument Texas had for why it deserved to be included in the College Football Playoff. This season’s schedule is similarly taxing. The Longhorns will battle Tennessee (Sept. 26), LSU (Nov. 14) and Texas A&M (Nov. 27) on the road, with Ohio State (Sept. 12) and Ole Miss (Oct. 24) coming to the Forty Acres. Throw in the Red River Shootout and Texas has four CFP qualifiers from last season on the schedule, along with two other bowl teams (Texas State and UTSA) in non-conference play and the rest of the nine-game SEC schedule. As the season unfolds, the schedule's degree of difficulty will be judged by where the Longhorns’ opponents sit in the polls. If Texas manages to see at least seven ranked opponents, the 2026 schedule will set a new program standard for strength of schedule. In the 2014 regular season, the Longhorns had six foes ranked in the Associated Press Top 25 at the time of the game, the most AP Top 25 clubs on a Texas regular-season schedule since the AP Poll expanded to 25 teams in 1989. Charlie Strong’s debut included losses to No. 12 UCLA in Arlington, No. 7 Baylor and No. 5 TCU at home, No. 11 Kansas State on the road and No. 11 Oklahoma in Dallas, with the lone ranked win of the season coming at home over No. 24 West Virginia. There have been eight seasons since the start of the AP Top 25 era in which the Longhorns have played five ranked opponents in the regular season, including 2025: — 2024 (at No. 10 Michigan, No. 18 Oklahoma, No. 5 Georgia, at No. 25 Vanderbilt and at No. 20 Texas A&M — 2018 (No. 22 USC, No. 17 TCU, No. 7 Oklahoma, No. 13 West Virginia and No. 16 Iowa State) — 2015 (at No. 11 Notre Dame, No. 24 Oklahoma State, at No. 4 TCU, No. 10 Oklahoma and at No. 12 Baylor) — 2010 (No. 8 Oklahoma, at No. 5 Nebraska, No. 25 Baylor, No. 12 Oklahoma State and No. 17 Texas A&M) — 1995 (at No. 21 Notre Dame, No. 13 Oklahoma, No. 14 Virginia, No. 23 Texas Tech and at No. 16 Texas A&M) — 1993 (at No. 11 Colorado, No. 6 Syracuse, at No. 24 Louisville, No. 10 Oklahoma and at No. 8 Texas A&M) — 1989 (at No. 14 Colorado, No. 15 Oklahoma, at No. 7 Arkansas, at No. 15 Houston and at No. 16 Texas A&M) The additional challenge for Texas in 2026, along with the SEC going to a nine-game schedule, is the elimination of multiple bye weeks. Whereas the Longhorns had two last season, the bye week between the Tennessee game and the Oct. 10 showdown with Oklahoma is the only time they’ll be able to put their feet up and catch their breath. Eight straight conference games to conclude the regular season could make the 2026 schedule the toughest non-stop grind since the 2008 season, when Texas took on the top-ranked Sooners, No. 11 Missouri, No. 7 Oklahoma State and No. 6 Tech in consecutive weeks. The Longhorns successfully refilled the cup against the Tigers and Cowboys, but didn’t have quite enough in the tank to dispatch the Red Raiders, suffering a loss that cost Mack Brown’s team a chance to play for the national championship. While a 12-team playoff gives Sarkisian’s bunch more margin for error, it won’t lessen the impact that the totality of a historically difficult schedule could have on the Longhorns’ chances of getting back to the CFP and making a run toward the title game. View full news story

No. The game won't be made up.

33. Austin Goosby 44. Bo Ogden 118. Joe Sterling Texas has the No. 15-ranked class in the country, according to Rivals.

He's No. 4 overall on PFF's big board. Prepare yourself for the Simmons vs. Dylan Stewart debate for the next 11 months.

The Longhorns are up to No. 3 in RPI. Texas also has a strong strength of schedule (No. 12) and a non-conference RPI (No. 3). https://d1baseball.com/nitty-gritty/

The Coaches Poll is pretty irrelevant in college baseball, but the Longhorns remain No. 4 there, too:

Texas is still No. 3 in the Baseball America Top 25:

The Longhorns remain No. 4 in the D1Baseball.com Top 25. Texas has series wins over five of the teams in this week's poll (Auburn, Mississippi State, Alabama, Ole Miss and OU, with a victory over Coastal Carolina in Houston.