Jeff Howe

That's the plan. Again, I'm sorry for cluttering the thread.

I apologize for my part in derailing the thread. Let's get back to discussing Arch, or anything else for that matter.

Good deal. I'm not sure what your endgame is here, but go on, I guess.

That's great. You do you. My colleagues do great work.

Nobody is forcing you to read it.

It feels like Texas is the team that needs to be all-in after coming up short. Hope it goes more like it did for Ohio State last season and not Penn State this season. It's up to Sark to push the right buttons.

Yet you felt the need to comment. Cool.

FWIW, Arch is 10-3 as a starter. That's the same record Colt McCoy had after 13 starts and he's one game behind Vince Young (11-2) in win-loss record through 13 starts. He's also 7-0 at home and has an 8-0 record in games played inside the state of Texas.

AUSTIN, Texas — Arch Manning will lead Texas into the 2025 regular-season finale against Texas A&M on Friday (6:30 p.m., ABC), looking to extend the best stretch of football he’s played in his first full season as QB1 for the Longhorns. The career-high 389 yards Manning threw for and six touchdowns he accounted for (he and Bobby Layne as the only quarterbacks in school history to throw for, rush for and catch a touchdown in a single game) in Saturday’s 52-37 win over Arkansas earned him a Manning Award Star of the Week nod, a spot on the Davey O’Brien Award’s “Great 8” list and recognition as the Associated Press National Player of the Week. Manning’s historic afternoon made him the first Texas (8-3, 5-2 SEC) quarterback to record three 300-yard passing games in a four-game stretch since Colt McCoy in 2009, one in which Manning (against Mississippi State, Vanderbilt, Georgia and Arkansas) has accounted for 14 touchdowns (11 passing, two rushing and one receiving). Doing his part to keep the Longhorns in the hunt for a third consecutive berth in the College Football Playoff over the team’s last four games, Manning is completing 65.1 percent of his passes (99 for 152). He's thrown for 1,314 yards and just two interceptions heading into Friday’s showdown with the Aggies at Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium. The game has slowed down for Manning and, as a result, he’s thriving, Steve Sarkisian said on Monday. While praising Manning’s continued growth as a progression passer and decision maker, Sarkisian said that how the redshirt sophomore quarterback overcame his early-season struggles has led to Manning’s play becoming, arguably, the biggest strength of a Texas team standing between Texas A&M (11-0, 7-0) and its first-ever trip to the SEC title game. “I don't know if any college player has gone through what he went through before he even was the full-time starter,” Sarkisian said. “Part of that is his last name, part of it is our brand. I think those two things coming together made this such a big storyline before the season, but none of it was anything due to what Arch was doing. He just kept focusing on what he needed and tried to do. I'm sure there were moments when it was a lot — maybe, even overwhelming — but, to his credit, the guy showed so much resolve and resiliency and stick-to-itiveness to the task at hand. It wasn't a perfect journey to get to this point, but sometimes, it's good not to have a perfect journey. Sometimes, taking a road less traveled is good for you. "I said this earlier in the year — he was going to benefit from the journey that he had to go on and that he could learn how to overcome some of the adversity that he was faced with and some of the criticism he was faced with," he added. "I think he's better and stronger for it today and I'm really proud of him.” View full news story

His last three years at UCLA (8-4, 9-4, 8-5) went a lot better than I thought.

No matter the format, I'd like to see campus sites be used until the semifinals.

When he was a defensive coordinator, he didn't coach a position. Wilcox was the DC at Boise State when PK was the D-line coach. PK took over for him when Wilcox left for Tennessee in 2010.

It was close, but I thought Smith led with his face up and didn’t launch himself at the receiver. It was a violent hit, but I didn’t feel in the moment like it was targeting.

1. Don’t know for sure but things are looking good for a couple of the visitors. 2. Texas has continued to chip away. They’ll be there until the end.

It hasn’t aged well, that’s for sure.

Even for the running game, I’d rather have an extra wideout on the field to pull a defender out of the box rather than muck things up with a second tight end. A third wideout makes you much more versatile and tougher to defend rather than the extra tight end.

I agree on the first point, but everyone on this defense needs to take advantage of in-game snaps, no matter the game situation. It was an opportunity to step up against Arkansas’ backup quarterback.

No doubt. We talked about it throughout the week. I didn’t think the two teams would go over my projected 41-31 final score.

It’ll take the cleanest performance of the season to get the job done.

We’ve got updates in the visitor list thread pinned at the top of the board.

Texas can appeal it. Don’t know if Sark will.

I would love for that to be the case. A&M is good, but they’re beatable.

They don't have the instincts and playmaking ability of Anthony Hill. That's the difference between starting caliber guys on an SEC defense and an All-American.