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AUSTIN, Texas — Longhorns DC Will Muschamp spoke to reporters on Thursday for the first time since returning to the University of Texas this offseason. Here's everything he said. Opening statement: “Great to be back. Excited about being at the University of Texas again. Appreciate Coach Sarkisian of giving me this opportunity. It's been awesome. He does a phenomenal job with our staff, with our players, you know, very like-minded in how you run a program, and it's been a lot of fun. Our players have been outstanding. I told them day one. I said change is inevitable in life, and sometimes you're not in charge of that change. Sometimes change happens very much o…

Most Difficult Game on the 2026 Schedule *** According to SP+ projections, the 2026 Texas Longhorns have drawn the most difficult schedule in all of college football. Not the toughest in the SEC. Not the toughest in the South. The entire country. That's the hand Steve Sarkisian and Arch Manning have been dealt heading into what is widely regarded as Manning's final season in burnt orange. From a Week 2 home date with Ohio State to a Black Friday road trip to College Station, there is no margin for error, no cupcake month, and nowhere to hide. And as we saw in 2025, one slip up could mean a spot in the College Football Playoff or New Year's Eve in Orlan…

Texas has added a visitor to its official visit list – 2025 Mansfield Timberview DB Nathan Tilmon. The plan is for Tilmon to officially visit Texas next week for a midweek trip June 18–20. Tilmon received his Texas offer on the morning of June 1 before the Texas staff hosted the elite camp on The 40 Acres. At the time, Tilmon had his official visits locked in for the month of June. He was going to see Utah, Baylor and TCU throughout the month, however Texas was able to sneak in a visit from one of the regional competitors. Tilmon is a 6-foot, 185-pound safety that can really fly. He carries 10.7 speed in his game and has been used as a two-way player in hig…

Texas 2025 Schedule: Must win, toughest game, sneaky game, etc... Last week on Coffee & Football, the toughest game environment and trap game Texas will face this season were topics in the chat. That gor me thinking about how I would define the Texas 2025 schedule by opponents. Here is my breakdown for the 2025 season ... as it stands today: Toughest game environment ... This was a topic on Coffee & Football last week in the chat. My opinion is it will be Ohio State. There is already hate and vitriol coming from the Buckeyes fan base on an annual basis toward marquee opponents, but this one will carry some special meaning. Texas won at Ohio Stat…

Some positives and negatives out of the 55–0 victory over Sam Houston State. *** Good Horn Swagger The game could have ended in the first quarter after Arch Manning ran into the end zone and mean-mugged a Bearkat defender and I would have been more than okay. That was all I hoped to see the entire day – swagger. Confidence returned to the field for Arch Manning and as a result the Texas offense looked completely different. It was what I was hoping to see all season long and we finally got a glimpse after four weeks. Good and Bad Horn Punt Return Game It was a true coin flip in the punt return game on Saturday night. Ryan Niblett had a …

Another 4-star OL locks in Texas OV The Texas Longhorns are up to 10 offensive line official visitors in June with the Friday addition of Malakai Lee (Honolulu, Hi./Kamehameha). The 6-foot-6, 320-pounder has USC, Texas and Michigan at the top of his list with long time recruiting industry reporters on the West Coast liking USC's chances headed into June OV's. BYU, Georgia and Alabama also continue to be in the fight. Area recruiter Johnny Nansen made the trip to Hawaii in January to see Lee in person, setting the table for a spring unofficial visit and the June official visit. June 13 (5) ... Kodi Greene, OT, Santa Ana (California) Mater Dei - *Or…

Spoke with a couple of sources over the last day or two to see how things were going for Vic Schaefer and his team, as they get ready to head into the 2025 season. Currently they are in Toronto for the “Globl Jam” and have already played two games up to this point against international competition. In the first game they beat Puerto Rico 85-45, followed by beating Canada yesterday, 70-61. While this is the first time since the tournament that they’ve played as a team, junior forward Madison Booker and sophomore guard Jordan Lee played with USA Basketball together throughout the summer. “With Madison and Jordan gone so much this summer, the entire team ha…

Texas With Eyes Set on Continuing 2025 Campaign, Leaving 2024 Behind *** If there was one message echoing through the Texas football facility on Monday, it was this — no talk of revenge, no backward glances at 2024. The Longhorns aren’t chasing losses of Longhorns' past. Rather than rehashing the two games against Georgia from last season, every word and every tone from Monday’s media availabilities carried a single theme: focus. The kind that sharpens when a team knows what’s still in front of it. Head coach Steve Sarkisian set the tone early. Since the conference-opening loss to Florida, Sarkisian’s message to his team has been steady and simple. …

Texas two-sport athlete Jonah Williams will miss the remainder of the Longhorns' 2026 baseball season after re-injuring his shoulder earlier this month. Williams will undergo surgery with the expectation that he'll be healthy in time for football season this fall. Given his recent injury history that includes a collarbone injury that hampered him his senior season of football, a hamstring injury that held him back in his first baseball season that then lingered into football season, and now this, should Williams consider hanging up the cleats in one and turn his full attention to baseball or football? The OTF staff debates. Bobby Burton I struggle t…

With the NFL Draft coming up tonight, I'm thinking back to each of the Longhorns draft hopefuls, and what their individual best plays were as a Longhorn. It's my way of saluting them and what they did on the 40 Acres. Of course, many of them had multiple outstanding plays. But what was their very best? Here's my take (and by the way - this is a topic Rod, CJ and Coach Shipley are also going to tackle in this afternoon's The Winning Drive on YouTube): Byron Murphy - the fourth-down pass rush versus Kansas State was a thing of beauty. And it wasn't even so much of how fast he got into the backfield and disrupted the player. Rather, it was the fact that M…

Updated June Official Visitors List OnTexasFootball currently has 42 prospects with official visit dates locked in for June official visits. With seven visits in the rearview mirror, Steve Sarkisian and staff will be focused on 17 official visitors this week, including one early week visit prior to 16 this weekend. Here is the updated list: June 7-9 (7) Tanook Hines, WR, Houston (Texas) Dekaney OnTexasFootball ranking: 4-star Official visit schedule: Arizona State April 26-28, USC May 31-June 2, Texas June 7-9, Notre Dame June 14-16 and Baylor June 21-23 Kaleb Edwards, TE, El Dorado Hills (Calif.) Oak Ridge OnTexasFootball ranking: 4-star …

Jeff Banks has extended an offer to 2026 tight end Camden Jensen Saturday morning. Jensen, a 6-foot-6-inch prospect out of Littleton, Colorado, currently holds 19 offers with Texas being the latest. He camped at Missouri Friday afternoon as well. The month of May was a busy one for Jensen, receiving offers from LSU, Florida State, Florida and Colorado all in the span of about a week. Jensen visited Nebraska at the end of April as well. Texas has now extended eight offers at tight end for the 2026 class, only one of which to an in-state prospect. *** UPDATE 2:20 p.m. Texas has also extended an offer to 2026 Dekaney EDGE Calvin Carter this…

The Sunday selection show was a somber one for the Texas Longhorns. Just 18 hours or so after the loss in overtime to Georgia, the Texas football team had to put their smiling faces on and gather for the College Football Playoff selection show. The Longhorns already knew they were CFP bound, yet the seeding was unknown. With the picture painted and the path set to the National Championship, Texas now understands what is next for the path to the CFP. The Longhorns will host Clemson on December 21st at DKR. *** So, what does that mean for now? Well, the Texas team is away from the practice field for Tuesday and Wednesday of this week. The Longhorns alrea…

No. 17 Texas vs. Arkansas Visitor List Texas is set to host at least seven official visitors Saturday for the Arkansas game. OTF has added 5-star defensive lineman Richard Anderson to the visitors list, after being listed as a maybe late last week. November 22-23 visitor list ... Brysten Martinez, OT, Gonzales (La.) East Ascension - *LSU commit OnTexasFootball ranking: 4-star+ Where it stands: Timing of LSU hire is key here. Kaden Scherer, OT, Georgetown (Texas) High - *Stanford commit OnTexasFootball ranking: 3-star++ Where it stands: Texas is the favorite over Stanford with a final push Jett Walker, RB, Georgetown (Texas) High - *Minnesot…

Steve Sarkisian Speaks on the Texas Quarterbacks *** We have reached the final week of practice for the 2026 spring session. There has been plenty of excitement as Steve Sarkisian boasted about the team speed and athleticism on Tuesday to the local media. This group of Longhorn playmakers can run fast, jump high, cut quickly and now – most importantly of all – throw accurately. Sarkisian spoke highly of the Texas quarterbacks today, starting with Arch Manning. "Come back in June 100% ready to rock & roll," Sarkisian said about the plan for Arch Manning. "He could probably be out there right now, there's no doubt about it. But I don't know what…

Reactions to Texas' 2026 Kick Off Times *** 2026 Time & TV Schedule Sept. 5 — Texas State (2:30 p.m., ESPN) Sept. 12 — Ohio State (6:30 p.m., ABC) Sept. 19 — UTSA (7 p.m., SEC Network+) Sept. 26 — at Tennessee (11 a.m., ABC or ESPN) Oct. 10 — Oklahoma (2:30 p.m., ABC or ESPN) Oct. 17 — Florida (Early; 11 a.m.-noon) Oct. 24 — Ole Miss (Flex; Afternoon or Night) Oct. 31 — Mississippi State (Night; 5-7 p.m.) Nov. 7 — at Missouri (Early; 11 a.m.-noon) Nov. 14 — at LSU (Flex; Afternoon or Night) Nov. 21 — Arkansas (Afternoon; 2:30-3:30 p.m.) Nov. 27 — at Texas A&M (6:30 p.m., ABC) *** A f…

Visitors to know this weekend Texas has hosted a number of 2027 prospects the first three days of the week around spring practice, and the remainder of the week will add a number more to the list that visited Friday and Saturday. The visitors at Wednesday practice included a new offer made in the hours following practice. New 2027 offer Wednesday... San Antonio (Texas) South EDGE/LB Brayden Booth picked up an offer after practice Wednesday. The 6-4.5, 200-pounded with frame upside is a prospect Texas stopped by to see in January. After visiting with Will Muschamp and staff Wednesday, Texas offered. Texas adds to an offer list of 18 that includes …

OTF takes a stab at identifying the top target — not currently committed to Texas — at each position for the Longhorns as things stand on Monday, March 23. Today we’ll take a subjective look at offense. Quarterback N/A Ty Knutson is already committed, therefore the Longhorns are not pursuing additional quarterbacks at this time in the class of 2027. Running back Lathan Whisenton, RB, Waco (Texas) Midway or Landen Williams-Callis, RB, Richmond (Texas) Randle 1A and 1B if you ask us. The Longhorns are going to sign at least two running backs in the class of 2027 and these two could very well be the guys. Whisenton is trending to Te…

5-star EDGE setting up official visit One of the top prospects on the board for Texas in the 2026 cycle is Richard Wesley (Chatsworth, Calif./Sierra Canyon). The 6-foot-5, 255-pound recent reclass from 2027 to 2026 made his first visit to Texas over the weekend. He was accompanied by his father and trainer. The visit went extremely well for the Longhorns, and now Texas is firmly in the picture along with Oregon and USC according to a source close to the recruitment. Ohio State and Notre Dame are also in play. In fact, the source said it's "One hundred percent" that Texas will receive a June official visit. The family is in the process of locki…

Welcome back to the Friday Round Up, a wrap up of the week and a look ahead to the weekend with news on The 40 Acres and beyond. *** New Era of Leaders Winter conditioning is the first time you get a real look at who will be the vocal leaders for the next calendar year. Texas is losing a lot of veteran voices, many of which had established the culture that is so heavily praised today. But after checking in on the start of winter workouts, three names stood out. The first is a familiar one, DB Michael Taaffe. The 2nd team All-American has continued to be the standard for the Texas Football program. Taaffe was in the leadership committee and year a…

Updating with Ezavier Crowell saying he will not make an OV to Texas after the departure of Tashard Choice. June official visit dates ... The Longhorns have 22 confirmed June official visitors with over 40 expected in the most impactful month of a recruiting cycle. The Longhorns hosted 41 official visitors in June of 2024. June 6 (1) Mark Bowman, TE, Santa Ana (Calif.) Mater Dei OnTexasFootball ranking: 5-star June 13 (11) Javian Osborne, RB, Forney (Texas) High OnTexasFootball ranking: 4-star++ Jabari Mack, WR, Destrehan (La.)High OnTexasFootball ranking: 4-star+ Heze Kent, TE/ATH, Brunswick (Ga.)High OnTexasFootball ranking…

Level of Position Comfortability on Day One of Fall Camp As simple a breakdown as the title would insist. Quarterback: 9/10 If 2024 was a total 10, then the 2025 season comes in just a tick below. The addition of Matthew Caldwell figures to be one the staff likes behind the scenes and will push the QB2 battle throughout camp. Arch Manning remains healthy and all is well for the 2025 season. Running Back: 8/10 Quintrevion Wisner is RB1 entering camp for the Texas Longhorns. The SEC's only returning 1,000 yard rusher will get first team duties as the return for CJ Baxter inches closer and closer. Fortunately, there is a significant increase i…

NCAA Passes New Targeting Rules for 2026 *** The NCAA New targeting ruling approved for 2026: For a player ejected due to target — after 1st offense of the season: able to play fully in next game after 2nd offense: 1st half suspension after 3rd offense: full game suspension Per the NCAA: "If the call is overturned on appeal, the player will be able to play without sitting out the first half of the next game." View full news story

-- As CJ noted earlier, Texas edge commit Cam Hall has shut down his recruitment. SMU and TCU were lingering but he is locked in with the Longhorns. He tells OTF he's cousins with 2028 DL target Kellan Hall out of Louisville. He's one of the top-rated defensive linemen in the country. Kellen is expected at Texas on Sunday for Elite Camp. Cam tells OTF he'll also be in town to watch Kellan work out. -- Texas EDGE commit Derwin Fields no longer plans to OV Ole Miss this upcoming weekend, but tells OTF he's still likely going to OV Ole Miss and LSU, just on different dates. He's still very firm with Texas at this point. View full news story

Texas comes in ranked No. 3 in the latest AP Top 25. 1. Oregon (61) 2. Ohio State 3. Texas 4. Penn State 5. Notre Dame 6. Georgia 7. Tennessee 8. Miami 9. SMU 10. Indiana 11. Boise State 12. Clemson 13. Alabama 14. Arizona State 15. Ole Miss 16. South Carolina 17. Iowa State 18. Tulane 19. BYU 20. Texas A&M 21. UNLV 22. Illinois 23. Colorado 24. Missouri 25. Army View full news story