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Texas is 2–0, the No. 2 team in the country and coming off of the biggest win of the season in all of college football. Head coach Steve Sarkisian is set to speak with the media Monday morning to recap the victory over Michigan and to preview UTSA. Notes and quotes in the comments down below.

We will start this weekend's edition of By The Numbers with a look at the offensive and defensive snap counts against Michigan. Of course it was well documented Texas was able to get 77 players on the field in the opener against Colorado State, now you will see who the staff has the most trust in via the snap counts against Michigan. *** Defensive Snap Count Out of 57 possible snaps. 57 – Malik Muhammad 56 – Jahdae Barron 40 – Derek Williams Jr., Trey Moore 39 – Vernon Broughton 38 – Barryn Sorrell, Michael Taaffe 34 – Anthony Hill Jr. 33 – Alfred Collins 32 – Andrew Mukuba 31 – Jaylon Guilbeau 30 – David Gbenda 24 – Jermayne Lole 23 – Gavin Holmes 21 – Colin Simmons 19 – Mo Blackwell Jr. 16 – Liona Lefua 15 – Ethan Burke 12 – Justice Finkley 11 – Jelani McDonald, Bill Norton 3 – TyAnthony Smith, Alex January 1 – Sydir Mitchell Offensive Snap Count: Out of 71 snaps on offense. 71 – Quinn Ewers 71 – Cameron Williams 71 – Hayden Conner 71 – Kelvin Banks 71 – Jake Majors 57 – Gunnar Helm 50 – Isaiah Bond 50 – Matthew Golden 46 – DJ Campbell 33 – Tre Wisner 32 – DeAndre Moore 30 – Jaydon Blue 29 – Juan Davis 25 – Cole Hutson 21 – Ryan Wingo 19 – Johntay Cook 14 – Jerrick Gibson 11 – Silas Bolden 7 – Amari Niblack 2 – Ryan Niblett

2025 EDGE Javion Hilson has decommitted from Florida State Sunday afternoon. Hilson had been committed to the Seminoles since January, but following FSU's disastrous start to the 2024 season, he has opted to reevaluate his future. Texas hosted Hilson for an official visit during the weekend of June 7-9.

Loganville (Ga.) Grayson High DL, Florida verbal and OnTexasFootball 4-star+ prospect Joseph Mbatchou will be making a first visit to Texas this weekend. The plans had gone back and forth between September 14-15 or September 21-22, but the visit is now locked in for this weekend. Mbatchou, 6-4.5 and 275 pounds, was offered by Texas August 13. Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, Auburn, LSU, USC and South Carolina have all offered since the first game of the season.

Boots are on the ground here in Detroit. It was a disastrous morning for anyone who followed my journey on Twitter to make it to Michigan – I will give the city of Houston 80% of the blame and take 20% for myself. However, we are here now. I will be over on campus at Michigan taking photos and videos around noon central time. Of course, we have a Friday afternoon livestream coming this afternoon soon as well. I will tell you this, there has been a ton of burnt orange flowing through the Detroit airport thus far. I even heard The Eyes of Texas on my flight out of Houston this AM. Folks are excited and the Texas faithful have travelled very well as you would expect. Only 26 hours and some change before kickoff!

Texas head coach Steve Sarkisian is speaking with reporters Thursday morning to discuss the Michigan game. Again, the Texas team will depart for Ann Arbor Friday morning. Notes and quotes in the comments below.

Texas defensive line targets senior HUDL: OTF community make your picks I'm going to post some early senior season HUDL clips of Texas defensive line targets. The question is, who do you guys like most? Start with Braxton Kyle, North Gwinnett ... Rutgers commit http://www.hudl.com/v/2Pz34H http://www.hudl.com/v/2Pkhyc

How about this recognition for RT Cam Williams. Pretty good season debut by the Texas right tackle!

Texas head coach Steve Sarkisian is back on the podium, this time at 12:30 p.m., for his weekly press conference with local media. Of course, Texas will be heading to Michigan for a marquee matchup with the defending National Champions at 11:00 a.m. on Saturday. Michigan is coming off of a 30–10 victory over Fresno State in week one.

The first depth chart of the season has been released by the Texas Longhorns. Of note, Jahdae Barron is the first cornerback listed opposite of Manny Muhammad and Jaylon Guilbeau is listed atop of the STAR position.

Texas head coach Steve Sarkisian is set to meet with the media following Texas' 52–0 victory over Colorado State in the season opener. Notes and quotes in the comments down below. ––– I imagine this will be one of the lighter press conferences we see all year.

One day away! Which means it’s time. My final 2024 Texas Season prediction: • vs. Colorado State (W) • at Michigan (W) • vs. UTSA (W) • vs. ULM (W) • vs. Miss State (W) • at Oklahoma - Dallas (W) • vs. Georgia (L) • at Vanderbilt (W) • vs. Florida (W) • at Arkansas (W) • vs. Kentucky (W) • at Texas A&M (W) Texas goes 11-1 in the regular season of 2024. College Football Playoff berth locked up.

Have a day Dicker the Kicker! The Longhorn Legend found a nice home in Los Angeles last year with the Chargers and now he is there to stay long term. Dicker mentioned to OTF in the summer he and now HC Jim Harbaugh will be having some fun in the weeks leading up to the Texas-Michigan game week two.

Steve Sarkisian in his Thursday Zoom availability said Texas LB Anthony Hill Jr. will be the one wearing the green dot indicating helmet communication with Pete Kwiatkowski and the Texas defensive staff. Not too big of a surprise, but the sophomore backer will be tasked with communication to begin the season.

Colorado State at Texas Visitor List We will update the visitor list throughout the week. Reminder, the Mississippi State and Georgia games are the two big games to bring in 2025 targets, and top 2026's.

2025 Ruston (La.) CB Aidan Anding has committed to LSU over Texas and Arkansas. The Tigers retain one of Louisiana's top DBs.

A quick recap of what’s going around on campus today. First off, to act as a traffic dude on the morning news from back in the day, campus is a disaster to drive through. (Bad time to move to a spot off of MLK). Students are moving back on campus today and the rest of the week as the first official day of school is set for August 26. The football team will be back on the practice field Friday morning, kicking off around 10:45, but for an unpadded,light walk through ahead of the mock game on Saturday. Again, the mock game will take place at 2:30 Saturday afternoon to resemble game one against Colorado State as closely as possible.

Texas added grad transfer RB Velton Gardner out of the transfer portal late Wednesday evening. The former Dallas Skyline prospect has spent five years at the D1 level prior to joining the Texas roster and has over 220 career rushing attempts. While that is not a workload that compares to that of work horses or bell cows, it is enough experience to believe he could carve out a role at some point for the Texas running game. How large of a role you ask? Well, that's a bit of what this article is about. I do think Gardner will see the field in 2024, Texas would not have taken if they had no plan to use him. But it will certainly take some time to see him on the field. Real quick, a look at his career usage. Gardner spent 2019-21 at Kansas, then 2022 and 2023 at SMU before entering the portal as a grad transfer. In 2023, Gardner saw just 67 snaps with the Mustangs where he had just 32 rushing attempts. However, he did force seven missed tackles in those limited touches and found the end zone once. Over half of Gardner's rush attempts a year ago were in between the guards, so despite the smaller stature, he does have the ability to run inside the tackles and be effective. In 2022, almost 44% of Gardner's rush attempts were in between the guards as well. So it is not a limitation. *** My expectation for Gardner this fall includes some mop up duty late in games. Of course, getting him up to speed with the playbook is of the utmost importance at the moment, but when it comes to those final 10:00 minutes or so against teams like Colorado State and ULM, Texas would be best served if Jerrick Gibson was not the back seeing unnecessary touches. Even if needing the experience, Gibson is going to play a vital part of the Longhorn rushing game in 2024 and keeping him healthy and out of risk of unnecessary touches would be where my brain goes. Insert Gardner. Those final minutes when a game is out of hand is exactly the situation he was brought in for in my eyes. Of course, Texas will also deploy some Colin Page, who has been getting some run with the 2's this fall camp. The duo should be deployed to preserve Wisner, Gibson and Blue. Entering SEC play, and once the playbook has been absorbed, then I could see a larger role becoming part of the plan for Gardner. Ultimately, the depth and experience added are the most important part of this addition and Texas did a fine job of roster management to ensure there would be a spot available for him.

that is scheduled for next week. I do not know what the announcement will be. But I have confirmed with a high-ranking official at the University what it will not be — any sort of neutral site arrangement. Beyond that, you’ll have to stay tuned for what CDC and Trev Alberts have to say.

The Reese's Senior Bowl has announced 16 Longhorns have been added to its 2025 Bowl and Draft watch list. Those Longhorns include: QB Quinn Ewers WR Silas Bolden WR Isaiah Bond TE Gunnar Helm LT Kelvin Banks Jr. LG Hayden Conner C Jake Majors DL Vernon Broughton DL Alfred Collins DL Jermayne Lole EDGE Trey Moore EDGE Barryn Sorrell LB David Gbenda DB Jahdae Barron DB Andrew Mukuba PK Bert Auburn Here is the count for the remainder of the SEC programs and how they stack up. Alabama: 19 Arkansas: 13 Auburn: 15 Florida: 16 Georgia: 20 Kentucky: 13 LSU: 18 Miss State: 6 Missouri: 12 Oklahoma: 11 Ole Miss: 21 South Carolina: 16 Tennessee: 9 Texas: 16 Texas A&M: 20 Vanderbilt: 7

A trio of Longhorns will meet with the media on Tuesday following the morning practice session. Texas is 11 days away from kickoff of the season opener and the team will undergo a mock game on Saturday afternoon to get into rhythm for the season. Notes and quotes in the comments down below!

Texas QB Quinn Ewers has been on a roll this season with NIL opportunities — most notably being featured on the cover of College Football 25 video game. Now, the Texas quarterback can add Dr. Pepper to the list! Ewers was featured on the season 7 commercial of Fansville, the Dr. Pepper college football ongoing series of commercials. Awesome deal for Ewers and another piece of recognition for the Texas Longhorns.

Ruston (La.) High 2025 CB Aidan Anding is set to announce his commitment August 24. The three finalists are Arkansas, LSU and Texas. As OTF has been reporting, Miami was going to be too far from home. The three finalists The push from some close - LSU The best job recruiting Anding - Arkansas

Latest on Michael Terry III San Antonio (Texas) Alamo Heights 4-star++ athlete Michael Terry III is currently on an unofficial visit to Nebraska. That trip followed Texas and Oregon. OTF is hearing that the Terry family has told Oregon they are likely too far away from home at the end of the day. Nebraska is more in play than Oregon, as of today. It could be that it’s the Cornhuskers that’s the biggest threat to Texas. Michael likes Texas a lot, but also likes Nebraska too. There are a couple of key people in the circle that prefer Texas. The question of when Terry will announce a decision is still in the balance. The family is not locked into the month of August. Not out of the question it goes into the season.

OnTexasFootball stopped by Galveston Ball High today for football practice this morning. Ball High two-sport star Jonah Williams told OTF he’s planning to graduate high school in December. That is significant news as it means Williams is bypassing his senior season of high school baseball. Williams told OTF he plans on to play college baseball in the spring of 2025. And go through spring practice. Williams said he made the decision that he wants to experience college football, and that will also include college baseball. Again, this is per Jonah Williams an hour ago.