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Looking to rebound after suffering a 9-8 loss on Friday, No. 2 Texas succumbed to an eight-run first inning by No. 18 Texas A&M in an 11-4 loss to the Aggies at Blue Bell Park on Saturday. In their first series loss of the season, the Longhorns watched a 1-0 lead in the top of the first evaporate. Luke Harrison was tagged for two runs on three hits before the game entered a 98-minute rain delay, after which Harrison surrendered extra-base hits to three of the next four batters he faced. Texas (27-7, 9-5 SEC) yanked Harrison after 0.2 innings, with Texas A&M (27-7, 9-5) roughing up the Longhorn lefty for eight earned runs on six hits. Even though Max Grubbs, Brody Walls, Michael Winter and Cal Higgins combined to allow just three hits and two earned runs in 7.1 innings of work, the damage was done. Offensively, Texas benefitted from two solo home runs by Aiden Robbins and a solo shot from Josh Livingston. Unfortunately, the disastrous first inning doomed the Longhorns, who will look to avoid a series sweep at the hands of the Aggies on Sunday (1 p.m., SEC Network+). Following the loss, On Texas Football will have live updates from Jim Schlossnagle’s postgame Zoom call with reporters. View full news story

The Longhorns are trying to avoid a series sweep at the hands of the Aggies today. Schloss and Max Weiner will send Dylan Volantis to the mound, looking to salvage something out of this weekend. The game is streaming on SEC Network Plus.

Texas forward Camden Heide is the program's first unexpected departure to the NCAA transfer portal. Jonathan Giovny of Draft Express first reported Heide's intent to enter the portal on Thursday. On Texas Football expected Heide to be a part of Sean Miller's club for the 2026-27 season, which will be Heide's last in college basketball after playing two seasons at Purdue before joining the Longhorns for the 2025-26 campaign. After playing in 75 career games for the Boilermakers, Heide saw action in 35 games for Texas. As a Longhorn, Heide set career-high marks for games started (29), scoring (5.9 points per game), assists (23), steals (15), 3-pointers made (49) and 3-point percentage (45.4). Heide made one of the most memorable plays of the season, hitting a 3-pointer from the corner with 14.7 seconds left in regulation to help Texas secure a 74-68 NCAA Tournament win over Gonzaga. The Longhorns finished the season in the Sweet 16, dropping a 79-77 decision to Purdue, with Heide scoring three points and grabbing five rebounds in 24 minutes. With Heide gone and Nic Codie both entering the transfer portal, Matas Vokietaitis is the only experienced frontcourt player returning to Texas for Miller's second season. John Clark and Lewis Obiorah are expected to return after both big men redshirted this past season. Before Heide's departure was known, sources told OTF that the power forward position is one the Longhorns were looking to upgrade with a transfer portal acquisition. View full news story

The Longhorns are sending Luke Harrison to the mound, looking to avoid a series loss after Friday's 9-8 loss to the Aggies. Today's game is on ESPN2.

Texas will play host to another big recruiting weekend with the Longhorns set to scrimmage on Saturday. OTF will be keep you updated in this thread with all the latest buzz we're hearing coming out of the Forty Acres. Notable names already on/or expected on campus this weekend: John Meredith III, CB, North Crowley (Texas) — already on campus Toa Satele, LB, Mililani (Hawaii) — already on campus Lucas Rhoa, OT, Orange (Calif.) Orange Lutheran — already on campus Ismael Camara, OT, Gilmer (Texas) High — already on campus Ai'King Hall, DB, Dothan (Ala.) High - Oregon commit JaBarrius Garror, LB/EDGE, Pritchard (Ala.) Vigor Aronson Randle Jr., LB, Garner (N.C.) High Taelyn Mayo, CB, Lewisville (Texas) High Montre Jackson, CB, Garland (Texas) Lakeview Centennial

The Longhorns and the Aggies play the first of three games in College Station at 7 p.m. on the SEC Network.

Columbus High OL Keyon Hemphill-Woods announces his decision at 6pm CT

2027 3-star CB from Atascocita Texas OV: June 5-7 Other OVs: Vandy, OU, and Arkansas

Texas guard Simeon Wilcher is entering the NCAA transfer portal, On Texas Football has learned. Wilcher is the second known portal departure from Sean Miller’s program, joining forward Nic Codie. A transfer from St. John’s, Wilcher has one season of eligibility remaining after spending one season with the Longhorns. Wilcher played in 36 games during the 2025-26 season, making one start and averaging 5.6 points, 1.8 rebounds and 1.7 assists per game. Wilcher’s departure means the Texas backcourt will be completely rebuilt from the group that helped the Longhorns advance to the Sweet 16. Tramon Mark, Jordan Pope and Chendall Weaver are out of eligibility, with Wilcher the only other guard in the rotation. View full news story

2027 four-star LB Toa Satele is on campus at Texas today for an unofficial visit.

En route to a 12-2 record, a conference championship and the program’s first trip to the College Football Playoff, Steve Sarkisian fielded his most well-rounded, productive Texas offense in 2023. Through Sarkisian's five seasons, his third offense is the most prolific Longhorn attack in points per game (35.8), yards per play (6.67) and total offense (477.5 yards per game). Texas also tallied 244 explosive plays in 14 games (the fourth most in FBS), matching the 2024 offense’s 16-game total of plays from scrimmage that netted 10 or more yards. That’s the standard the 2026 offense is chasing. The current group has the tools to break the mold and establish a new bar for Sarkisian’s offenses on the Forty Acres. Nevertheless, two things must happen for the vision to come to fruition. If they do, the results the Arch Manning-led offense generates should surpass that of an offense that got the program to the cusp of playing for a national championship. — The beauty of the 2023 running back room is that even when Jonathon Brooks was lost for the season with a knee injury in a November road win over TCU, CJ Baxter and Jaydon Blue picked up the slack. The Longhorns had a top-25 running game nationally in yards per game (25th with 188.4) and yards per carry (20th with 5.01), avoiding a statistical decline without Brooks, who appeared on his way to All-American honors as a legit candidate for the Doak Walker Award at the time of his injury. Baxter (117 yards on 20 carries against Iowa State) and Blue (121 yards on 10 carries against Texas Tech) both recorded 100-yard rushing games after Brooks’ injury. Texas averaged 200.8 yards per game and 5.54 yards per attempt over the last four games of the season, including a 180-yard effort against Washington in the Sugar Bowl. The conditions are ripe (a revamped offensive line that’s created a push at times this spring against a stout defensive front) for Raleek Brown and Hollywood Smothers to run the ball with the kind of consistency the Longhorns have been missing over the last two years. What the offense needs from the overhauled backfield beyond that is for the trio of Brown, Smothers and Derrek Cooper (who, by all indications, has had a tremendous spring) to be the three-headed monster Sarkisian almost had in 2024. Tre Wisner emerged as an unlikely 1,000-yard rusher, but Baxter’s preseason knee injury resulted in Texas missing the between-the-tackles thumper to pair with Wisner and Blue. Can Brown and Smothers surpass the 2,473 scrimmage yards and 20 touchdowns that Blue and Wisner combined for that season? If they’re anywhere close to that level of production and are consistently effective enough to let Cooper’s role grow as he gains more experience, the Longhorns will have the goods to be the top backfield in the SEC. — Sarkisian detailed during his post-practice press conference on Tuesday how Cam Coleman and Ryan Wingo can mutually benefit by sharing the field. “Both of those guys are so accustomed to always having the safety cheating towards them,” Sarkisian said. “If you're only going to play with one safety, you can only cheat so many ways. If you're going to play with split safeties, surely that helps the run game." In December, I wrote about Wingo’s sophomore season production mirroring the numbers Xavier Worthy put up in 2022. While nobody should expect Wingo to get the same kind of target share as a junior that Worthy did (26.7 percent of the team’s targets went to Worthy in 2023), it’s possible that Wingo and Coleman taking advantage of the opportunities they get against favorable coverage could allow them to match or exceed the production of Worthy (75 receptions for 1,014 yards and five touchdowns) and Adonai Mitchell (55 catches for 845 yards and 11 touchdowns). Coleman and Wingo can definitely force defenses to play more two-high safety looks than they want. Still, a potent Texas running game, especially one in which opponents have to respect the run threat Manning presents, means opposing defensive coordinators would, at some point, have to devote an extra defender to stop the run. In 2023, defenses had to pick their poison when trying to slow down the Texas offense. The 2026 offense can present those same issues, but the personnel upgrades Sarkisian’s organization made during the transfer portal window could make the current offense even tougher to defend. View full news story

Texas Tech WR commit Benny Easter Jr. is on campus at Texas today.

Worth mentioning because I believe it slipped through the cracks this weekend. Texas hosted 2028 Newton (Ga.) RB Kevin Hartsfield for an unofficial on Friday and Saturday. Currently ranked inside the top 100 nationally and the No. 9 running back per the composite in the 2028 class, Hartsfield made it to campus for the first time to see the Longhorns in action. Sophomore Hudl: https://www.hudl.com/video/3/20831717/682892f69a60568eaa4aeef4 Notable Offers Alabama Auburn Florida Florida State Indiana LSU Michigan Ohio State Ole Miss Oregon South Carolina Tennessee Texas

2026 EDGE from Summer Creek 6-2, 230 pounds Senior film: https://www.hudl.com/video/3/18033550/696dc8fa015caff4146e89bd

The Texas Longhorns offered the nations top 2027 WR tonight. OnTexasFootball heard last week that the 6-5, 205-pounder with 4.37 wheels is expected to make an UOV soon

Note on Oregon DB commit Ai'King Hall Hall tells OTF he has not canceled other visits despite his commitment today. The 6-foot-0, 195-pound versatile cornerback/nickel remains planned to be in Austin this weekend for a first ever visit to Texas.

If you read Bobby Burton’s Monday post regarding trends emerging in spring practice, the first four had to do with the outstanding transfer class Steve Sarkisian and the organization reeled in during the portal window. To continue the theme of highlighting a deep, talented group of incoming transfers, I wanted to rank the five previous transfer hauls from the most to the least impactful. If nothing else, it’ll help set the bar for what the 2026 group of Longhorn newcomers must accomplish to maximize what they collectively bring to the table. 1. 2024 11 Transfers: Kendrick Blackshire (LB), Silas Bolden (WR), Isaiah Bond (WR), Velton Gardner (RB), Matthew Golden (WR), Jermayne Lole (DL), Trey Moore (EDGE), Andrew Mukuba (S), Amari Niblack (TE), Bill Norton (DL), Tia Savea (DL) Blackshire never played a snap for the Longhorns, while Gardner, Niblack and Savea didn’t make a dent in the program. Still, to get first-round (Golden) and second-round (Mukuba) draft picks, a game-changing return specialist (Bolden), an NFL wideout who contributed significantly when healthy (Bond), a formidable pass rusher who will be drafted (Moore) and two defensive linemen (Lole and Norton) who were key pieces of a national championship-caliber defense out of the rest of the group is an incredible hit rate for a transfer portal haul. 2. 2022 Seven Transfers: Jahleel Billingsley (TE), Quinn Ewers (QB), Agiye Hall (WR), Tarique Milton (WR), Isaiah Neyor (WR), Diamonte Tucker-Dorsey (LB), Ryan Watts (CB) Despite getting little to nothing from the offensive skill players, Texas landed a franchise quarterback (Ewers) and a future NFL draft pick on defense (Watts) in Sarkisian’s second talent acquisition cycle. Considering when he got to the Forty Acres and what he did to solidify the most important position on the field, on top of making Texas an attractive option for skill position transfers, Ewers is the most important Longhorn acquired from the transfer portal since it launched in 2018. 3. 2023 Five Transfers: Trill Carter (DL), Jalen Catalon (S), Gavin Holmes (CB), Adonai Mitchell (WR), Ryan Sanborn (P) The smallest portal haul of Sarkisian's tenure has a case to be ranked higher because of how important Mitchell and Sanborn were to a team that was good enough to win a national championship. Catalon made plays until his body let him down and Holmes was a solid multi-year contributor in the secondary. Similar to when Texas took Milton in 2022, Carter was an insurance policy the Longhorns didn’t need to cash since it had arguably college football’s top defensive line rotation that season, with Byron Murphy and T’Vondre Sweat as the tip of the spear. 4. 2025 11 Transfers: Jack Bouwmeester (P), Cole Brevard (DL), Matthew Caldwell (QB), Jack Endries (TE), Lavon Johnson (DL), Hero Kanu (DL), Emmett Mosley V (WR), Travis Shaw (DL), Mason Shipley (K), Brad Spence (LB), Maraad Watson (DL) If for no other reason, this group isn’t ranked higher because there’s a lot of football to be played before a proper verdict can be rendered. That said, it's borderline disrespectful to rank the group this low because of how important the one-year transfers were in 2025. Texas wouldn’t have been a 10-win team if not for Caldwell and Shipley. Endries will be drafted later this month and Bouwmeester was an upgrade for a punt team that struggled in 2024. While Brevard and Shaw were solid stop-gap linemen for one season, Kanu and Watson could leave the program as top-100 draft picks. Mosley and Spence are positioned to play a high percentage of high-leverage snaps this season and both of them have the tools to play at the next level. 5. 2021 Six Transfers: Ben Davis (EDGE), Darrion Dunn (CB), Ovie Oghoufo (LB), Devin Richardson (LB), Keilan Robinson (RB), Ray Thornton (EDGE) Sarkisian’s first portal class did produce an NFL draft pick (Robinson). Although the efforts the six transfers made as Longhorns are appreciated, this group exemplified a roster in which the most talented players lacked experience and the most experienced players didn’t significantly raise the team’s ceiling. View full news story

College Basketball Coaching Carousel Thread It may be about to be wild ... chatter in coaching circles Bill Self may retire. OTF NOT reporting that, to be clear. Jobs open now: Kansas State - Chris Beard taking a look according to agent world. He has a 4.5mill buyout, however. Georgia Tech Boston College Providence Oregon State Little Rock San Diego St. Bonaventure Northern Illinois Cal-Bakersfield Ball State Air Force Eastern Michigan Tarleton State Tennessee Tech Wagner Western Michigan Lamar Likely to open: Arizona State is about a lock to open LSU - OTF watching Will Wade here. South Carolina Syracuse Pittsburgh Oregon - rumors Dana Altman could call it a career Appears to be safe: Colorado