Kevin C

I can’t wait to see how this year’s team looks against Ohio State in 64 days. I’m bullish that this is the year. I listed out all the teams we haven’t played the past two seasons plus OU and A&M, will put us at 9 games with 8 of those teams being pre-season Top 16 this year. 😳

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By comparison to the 9 ‘Top 16’ teams we could potentially play next season, Texas plays 4 teams this season in the Top 16 or 6 teams in the Top 22. Our conference schedule appears substantially easier this season by comparison, which is crazy. We aren’t in the Big 12 anymore, lol (and that is such a good thing).

2025 ESPN Pre-Season FPI

Needed a mental break this morning from the Recruiting Roller Coaster. 🤪😂 Tip of the cap to you, Jeff Howe, with my expanded topic title this Sat morning, Lol. 😂🤣 Thinking about how dominating Texas will potentially be in 2026 on offense and defense with all our highly athletic freshmen and sophomores now ready to shine, it led me to look ahead at what our 2026 football schedule will potentially be and the questions it raises. 1) Will our SEC conference schedule be 8 or 9 games? Crazy that this question is still looming and TBD in mid-summer. 2) Will Texas have permanent annual games against 1, 2 or 3 teams? OU is absolute and I would think A&M is as well based on several comments made by CDC recently, regardless of whether the conference plays 8 or 9 SEC teams. I don’t have any feelings about Ark as a 3rd permanent annual game other than the fact that they are likely to be one of our easiest wins, given how competitive the SEC is top to bottom. 3) Assuming status quo of an 8-team conference schedule for 2026 and assuming Texas plays OU and A&M every year, 1 SEC team will get left out of the rotation to play Texas next season. Who would it be? 4) Given our current slate of conf games the past 2 seasons, 2026 would have Texas playing Bama, LSU, Ole Mis, Tennessee, A&M, OU, Missouri, South Carolina, Auburn. That’s 9 conference games. Who is gonna get left out? And btw, holy $&@?… 8 out of 9 teams in that group are ranked in the Top 16 currently according to ESPN’s FPI and the 9th (Missouri) is 24th. Then add to this insane 2026 conference schedule, our home game against Top 4 Ohio State to kick off the season. Texas is likely to have the #1 hardest schedule in football next season. 5) I’ve had it my mind this offseason that 2026 is Texas’ year to win it all due to anticipated younger players maturing and the belief that Texas would be more athletic and experienced (QB, OL, DL, Secondary, Receivers, TE, RB, etc) but…. 6) The reality is that our schedule may be more favorable this year (as crazy as that may sound) combined with the fact that the other top teams competing for a natty like Ohio State, Georgia, Notre Dame, Oregon, Bama, all have significant youth in key areas, including QB, as well. It brings me to 3 questions on this Saturday morning: 1) Is 2025 actually the year for Texas to win it ALL? Lots of things line up to say Yes imho, most notably our kick@$$ defense that should be second to none, an improved offense with Arch making us more diverse and dangerous, better special teams play (a real weakness last season that’s been addressed in the portal) and a schedule that’s more favorable. 2) If SEC only plays an 8-team conference schedule in 2026, who gets left off? 3) Can you think of any other time in history when it’s been more f’ing fun to be a Texas Longhorn? Hook em! 🧡🤘🏼🐂

Exactly. Trust Sark and the staff. They know what they're doing and they aren't panicking.

Klubnik should have a great year with those receivers.

That seems a little surprising. Arch likely still signing autographs at Bucee's on I-10 coming out of Houston. Line is 700+ people long, lol. 🤘🐂🧡

Agree. IMO, there’s no reason to be offended by any pre-season rankings. They’re fun to debate but the season will prove out and reality of performance is all that matters. I actually like that some of our key players and positions groups are getting overlooked (eg WR, TE, RB) going into the season. Time will tell but think this team is special and could achieve more than past 2 seasons, getting all the way to NC. Time will tell. 🧡🐂🤘🏼

Agree Paul. I’m buying a lot of stock pre-season on undervalued Longhorn WR /TE. Also, love hearing what’s being said about Tre Wisner for his commitment this spring to ‘take the bull by the horns’, put on some additional healthy muscle while also improving speed training. Perhaps all of Tre’s work this offseason can improve Tre from 4.7 ypc to 5.5 or 6 ypc and his total rushing/receiving yards could grow from 1375 total yards to 1600+ yds. Given what we’ve heard from Sark this week in interviews, he plans to be ultra careful this season with Baxter. I’m betting CJ isn’t at full stride till Nov then we’ll have a crazy 1-2 punch of Tre and CJ with additional support from Clark, Niblett, Baby Rhino, etc. Hook em! 🧡🤘🏼🐂

Hill(2), Simmons(4) and Taaffe(14) on defense Arch(16) only Longhorn on offense Thinking Arch is better than the 4th best QB in SEC. Time will tell. Also, thinking our trio of experienced receivers (Wingo, Mosley, Moore) will prove to be far better than low pre-season ratings. https://apple.news/Aydp_67jaQou5XodApDn3uA

We were traveling all day yesterday, so not sure if this video was already posted. I didn’t see it on OTF. Thinking every player being recruited by Texas and their parents needs (yes, I’m sending this to the Crowell family with love 🧡) to watch this entire interview between Sark and several Longhorn greats. Between academics, team GpA up 3.31, Forbes tabbed UT as Ivy League of the South, true NIL earning potential (beyond the initial contract), long-term career opportunities in Austin after the NFL, player development, culture, NFL stock, winning championships, offensive scheme, creating his own legacy, playing with Manning, Lacey and Bell at QB, having Sark as your HC and OC, living in Austin, etc. So many reasons why UT, Austin and this coaching staff under Sark is the place for elite talent to be. Hook em!! 🧡🤘🏼🐂

Awesome! So much attention this summer by some to lack of elite talent we’ve locked in to 2026 class on offense but in reality, it all starts with having QB1. Hook em! 🧡🐂🤘🏼

Sark’s ability to tell ‘his story’ in a way that is authentic and inspiring plus the way he represents why Texas is Great, is second to none. No other coach in college is a better leader for their football team and ambassador for their university, imo, than coach Sark. Ps, yes my kool-aid is burnt orange and tasting good. 😂🤣🧡🐂🤘🏼

Love the mix of Longhorn greats who do the 3rd and Longhorn show. Their interview with Sark and his thoughtful responses for almost an hour is awesome. Great watch. Fired up!!! Hook em! 🧡🤘🏼🐂

Love it. It’s closing time!! Would love to have John Turntine in this class. Hoping this July 4 is better than last year. Hook em!🐂🤘🏼🧡

Get well @Gerry Hamilton! You wanna be at full strength when all the fireworks start popping next week thru mid-July! Hook em! 🧡🤘🏼🐂

Thanks Jeff. Good to know for future reference.

Sorry bout that @Jeff Howe. Thanks for merging. I wrote / posted before seeing your post around same time. For future reference, is there an easy way to delete a post? I only saw option to edit (not delete) this am.

Thanks @Bobby Burton. Makes complete sense that Sark is tracking at around 28 in this year’s class. Excited to see how the next month unfolds with all the upcoming announcements. Hook em!! 🧡🐂🤘🏼

Yep, agree 3 seems more likely at WR. Will be interesting to see if we’re able to keep Finley from going Irish and whether Bishop ends up playing at WR or secondary as primary position. Both groups are loaded but WR room is incredibly stacked with youth and talent. There’s 7-8 legitimate NFl prospects on our current roster (Mosley, Moore, Wingo, Livingstone, Ffrench, Locket, Terry and McCutcheon). Our Wide Reveiver room is starting to resemble the loaded rooms from the early 2000s with BJ, Sloan and Roy followed by Pittman, Sweed, Cosby and Shipley. It’s awesome how strong, deep and young our WR room is. Pretty cool we’ve had 2 longhorn receivers drafted in first round in past 2 years and 4 WRs drafted overall then look at all the talented WRs ready to elevate over the next several years/ Hook em!! 🧡🤘🏼🐂

Take this crap back to OB. Jordan’s updated story I linked was from 2hrs ago. already acknowledged the quotes he referenced from Wolk followed OVs earlier this month and that much can still change. Let’s hope it’s a great sign that he gave those quotes following OVs to contenders and set announcement date following OV to Texas today. Hook em! 🧡🐂🤘🏼

Lol. Crazy but true how much can change in 2 weeks but the new info is Kendall announcing tonight that he’s set his announcement date for July 2nd following final OV to the Horns. The article I included from Jordan Scruggs was posted 2 hours ago and included quotes given to Wolk following his OVs earlier in June. Let’s hope he chooses the Horns cuz Guervil is a f’ing beast!!

Feels like we’re gonna be around 20 commits be end of July if things unfold the way they’re trending currently. That would be way ahead of where we were last year at the same time. @Gerry Hamilton and @Bobby Burton, I know you get this question multiple times weekly but if we take 5-6 OL and 4 -5 DL plus 2-3 Edges and 4-6 in the secondary plus 2-3 LBs, 3-4 WRs, 1 TE plus our #1 QB in the country and the 3 special teams players, it seems like this year’s class will be trending into the upper 20s (26-28). Is that likely or will Texas find a way to stay closer 23-25 total? Apologies if you’ve Clariden this recently, we’re on 2-week family vacation across Europe so I’m not keeping up as much right now. Hook em!! 🧡🤘🏼🐂

Things sound ultra promising for the Horns to land the #1 DL out of Florida for second straight year as Kendall Guervil has set his announcement date for July 2nd and he’s telling reporters across the SEC that Texas is his top choice currently. This addition to the DL would be f’ing massive if Guervil ends up choosing the Horns over Georgia, Florida and Florida State. Realize things can always change in this era of NIL but my guess is that KG is one of Gerry’s HI’s. Nice interview with 247’s Georgia beat writer, Benjamin Wolk and some very encouraging quotes in the Horns favor: "Georgia is definitely No. 2 right now," he told Dawgs247's Benjamin Wolk. "Texas is the lead right now. Pretty much, it's nothing. Georgia has been doing a great job recruiting me since the beginning of my junior year. And to be honest, they don't really have to change nothing, but just keep recruiting me, really." "To be honest, it's the city of Austin, Texas," Guervil told Wolk. "It's great. It's amazing. And the school itself is just amazing, the people around. I feel like Texas is everything I would need down there if I was to go there. And just, you know, the people, the atmosphere, the community over there is just great. And all around it's just, I feel like Texas would be an amazing place to be at, especially Austin, Texas." https://247sports.com/college/texas/article/texas-longhorns-football-recruiting-kendall-guervil-commitment-date-kenny-baker-vodney-cleveland-dylan-berymon-corey-wells-steve-sarkisian--251142292/ Let’s keep it going Kenny Baker!! You and LaAlllan Clark are quickly becoming the ultimate 1-2 punch building the #1 DL and #1 Edge room in the country. We all know the trenches are key to winning it all. Love the momentum. Hook em! 🧡🐂🤘🏼