As fierce as the Red River Rivalry is, Colt McCoy and Sam Bradford insist they are friends. That friendship will be put aside Saturday as No. 3 Texas (5-0, 2-0) and No. 20 Oklahoma (3-2, 1-0) renew acquaintances at the Cotton Bowl with the marquee signal callers drawing all the attention for the perennial Big 12 contenders.
Ranked second for the sixth straight poll, the Longhorns continue their quest for their second national title in five years as they host Big 12 rival Colorado on Saturday night.
Colt McCoy needs a big game to re-establish his Heisman Trophy bonafides. Not that McCoy has been bad, it's just that he's lacking an electrifying game. He'll have his chance in big games later, but big stats now look good later.
Texas Tech played the role of heart breaking spoiler last season beating the Longhorns 39-33 in a game that neither fan base needs a recap of to remember.
While the Texas Longhorns are 2-0 with two 30-plus point victories, there are a lot of areas that are kindly known as “coaching points.” Things that have to be fixed before the meat of the conference schedule,...
On Saturday the Texas Longhorns will play at Wyoming for the first time since 1978. The Longhorns will take on the Cowboys in Laramie, Wyoming for the first time in the history of the program.
.... But perhaps the biggest issues are from the two injured Longhorns, right guard Michael Huey and middle linebacker Jared Norton and the three players who were held out of the opener for “unresolved academic issues.”
After nine months of no college football, the season finally kicks off tonight at 6 pm Central with a handful of games. Burnt Orange Beat publishers break down all of the Big 12 games and five other national games of interest. Before the kickoff, no one can be wrong!
Much of this week’s media session started with Texas Longhorns coach Mack Brown dodging questions focused on blowouts, mop-up duty plans, and other assumptions about an opening W over Louisiana-Monroe.
After three weeks of hitting each other in plenty doses of ones versus ones, the Texas Longhorns can now turn their full focus on the University of Louisiana-Monroe Warhawks. Get a look at the week leading to the season opener here!
One pesky area that stood out with the Texas Defense was creating turnovers. Since the Fiesta Bowl, the defense has preached finishing plays and creating turnovers.
Cayuga junior running back Traylon Shead is not only one of the top football prospects in the state of Texas in the 2010 class, but with another productive season in 2009, will go down as one of the schoolboy legends of Texas high school football.
The already impressive Texas Longhorns 2009-10 backcourt received yet another boost on Monday when word was received that former Port Arthur Memorial combo guard J’Covan Brown had been cleared for competition and enrollment by the NCAA.
August camp is now over two weeks old and headed into the final full fall camp week. Camp will close next weekend and the team will go into game week preparations for the season opener on September 5 versus Louisiana – Monroe.
With the season right around the corner on the high school, college and NFL levels, quarterback will again be the most talked about position in the game. Today, Friendswood head coach Steve Van Meter talks to Burnt Orange Beat about teaching his kids about the position.
Most of the spring and summer talk surrounding the Texas Longhorn defense is how the ‘Horns were going to replace Roy Miller and Aaron Lewis on the interior of the line. With only Lamarr Houston returning inside within any significant playing time, it is an area of concern for the defense. After today’s first practice, Coach Muschamp addressed the tackle position.
There are a lot of expectations placed on top 20 prospects every time they take the court on the AAU circuit. That is what future Longhorn Myck Kabongo is facing!
Junior defensive end Cedric Reed of Cleveland is one of the top players in his class with eight schools already saying he will be offered. On Monday morning, the 6-5, 243-pounder and his Cleveland teammates went through their first practice, which was an August scorcher as expected.
The Big 12 Media Days have finally come to an end in Dallas today as Texas Head Coach Mack Brown was the last coach to present. Coach Brown embraced the high expectations going into this season and even compared this team to the 2005 team that went undefeated and won the National Championship.
Get to know Pearland junior to be Sam Ukwuachu. The 6-5, 200-pound receiver/defensive end is on the radar of the state’s top programs as well as an SEC East school and could enjoy a breakout year in 2009 for the Oilers.
Every year, former Texas high school players litter the All-American and All-Conference teams across the landscape of college football. This season will be more of the same, but with some star appeal and Heisman Trophy contenders.
The Texas Longhorns rank second in all-time wins (831), is one of only seven programs to have at least 800 all-time victories, rank third in all-time winning percentage (71.8%), and rank second in number of bowl game appearances (48).
The Texas Longhorns rank second in all-time wins (831), is one of only seven programs to have at least 800 all-time victories, rank third in all-time winning percentage (71.8%), and rank second in number of bowl game appearances (48).
Five former Longhorn stars on the hardwood have come together to bring not only Longhorn fans, but fans of basketball, football and baseball at all levels a web site that will allow fans a glimpse into their world from hanging out and having fun to working hard to prepare for their seasons.
The college football season is right around the corner with practices beginning around August 10 for many teams. Burnt Orange Beat takes a look at the conference and makes our preseason All-Big 12 selections.
The Texas Longhorn defensive frontline is definitely the group that suffered the most loses this past offseason. The stop force loses four of its top five linemen (Orakpo, Miller, Lewis, and Melton) as Lamarr Houston is the lone returning starter (8 of the 13 games) in the front four.
The 2009 Heisman Award marks just the second time in the history of the award (it has been awarded since 1935) that the top three finishers all return to college for another season.
Case McCoy is busy preparing for his senior season at Graham. The future Longhorn and his Graham teammates look at 7-on-7 as preparation for the 2009 season running the same passing game offense they will features on Friday nights, which isn’t the norm in 7-on-7.
Going into the 2008 season, the defensive backfield had the unenviable task of starting a redshirt freshman at strong safety, Earl Thomas, and a true freshman at free safety, Blake Gideon.
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