REPORT: Arizona State’s Larry Porter Hired as Running Backs Coach at Texas
Arizona State running backs coach and former Memphis head coach Larry Porter has been hired as running backs coach in Austin. Photo: Nelson Chenault-USA TODAY Sports
With Bryan Harsin recently accepting the head coaching position at Arkansas State, out of necessity, things were shuffled around from a staffing perspective within the Texas football program. Co-offensive coordinator...
Guide to Big 12 bowls: Texas vs. Oregon State
Valero Alamo Bowl
(8-4) 23 Texas vs. (9-3) 13 Oregon State 5:45 CT Saturday, Dec. 29 Alamodome San Antonio, TX
Texas: Win four, lose two, win four, lose two. In that order. That's the Texas Longhorns' season in a nutshell. Once again, quarterback was a question most of the season, and after 12 games there are few answers. The Texas offense ran 826 offensive snaps in 2012...
Guide to Big 12 bowls: Texas vs. Oregon State
Valero Alamo Bowl
(8-4) 23 Texas vs. (9-3) 13 Oregon State 5:45 CT Saturday, Dec. 29 Alamodome San Antonio, TX
Texas: Win four, lose two, win four, lose two. In that order. That's the Texas Longhorns' season in a nutshell. Once again, quarterback was a question most of the season, and after 12 games there are few answers. The Texas offense ran 826 offensive snaps in 2012...
Kyle Hicks decommits from Texas, commits to TCU
Kyle Hicks, Arlington Martin running back and Rivals 4-star prospect, has switched his commitment to play football at The University of Texas and instead has selected Texas Christian University. Hicks was the only running back recruited in the Texas 2013 class which now stands at a lean 14 commits with Hicks’ flip to the Horned Frogs. Hicks, who is recovering from an ACL tear...
Is Texas RB Malcolm Brown Transferring?
Is Texas running back Malcolm Brown healthy and thinking of transferring? Photo: Brett Davis-US PRESSWIRE
A rumor is swirling that former 5 star recruit and current Longhorn Sophomore RB Malcolm Brown is wanting to transfer from Texas, possibly to Texas A&M. Surprisingly enough, I have not seen near the amount of people expressing a desire for Brown to remain a Longhorn as I...
2013 NFL Draft: Texas vs. TCU Thanksgiving Preview
Turning a new page in Thanksgiving tradition with the departure of Texas A&M to the SEC, Texas now faces off versus Big 12 newcomer TCU in what should be a tight ball game. Playing in Austin for this game, Texas, with Jonathan Gray receiving an increased workload of 52 carries in the previous 3 games, has experienced new life offensively. While Gray’s touches were a result...
TCU Depth Chart Release & Mack’s Monday Pressser Tidbits
As Mack Brown mentioned in the opening sentence of the press conference, the Longhorns really needed the bye week in order to heal the miscellaneous injuries sustained in the Iowa State game while giving the squad time to thoroughly prepare for TCU. The depth chart for the Thanksgiving night game against the Horned Frogs didn’t have many surprises on it, with everything looking...
College Fantasy Football: Week 9 Rapid Fire Preview
Batten down the hatches! Frankenstorm is coming, folks, and CFG headquarters is in the crosshairs of its projected path.I made the mistake of running an errand to the grocery store this afternoon and was nearly stampeded by a gang of 70-year old blue-haired beauties stocking up on prunes, Depends and batteries.Luckily, I got out of there unscathed with a case of beer and giant bag...
10 thoughts from the Texas vs. Baylor game
Just as many thought, the game Saturday was a shootout between two teams that are growing their young offenses while failing to fix their problems on defense. Led by Joe Bergeron’s 5 touchdowns, the Longhorns held on to beat the Baylor Bears 56-50 in a game that revealed more of the identity that this Texas [...]
Texas-Baylor Analysis
From a strong defensive period for the Longhorns to notes on Joe Bergeron and Josh Turner, here are three thoughts on Texas's 56-50 win over Baylor.
Horns & Bergeron Bully the Bears, 56-50
AUSTIN — It was the first Must Win against Baylor for the Texas program in the Mack Brown Era. And it only took seven rushing touchdowns by the Longhorns, five by Joe Bergeron, and a Mike Davis awakening to do it. Texas (5-2, 2-2) scored 21 consecutive points in the middle of the 2nd quarter to take [...]
Texas 56, Baylor 50
Joe Bergeron ran for five touchdowns and Texas outlasted Baylor 56-50 Saturday night in another wild one in the Big 12, snapping the Longhorns' two-game losing skid.
Bergeron fell one touchdown short of the school record held by Heisman Trophy-winning running back Ricky Williams. David Ash passed for 274 yards for Texas (5-2, 2-2 Big 12), which overcame another dismal effort...
Bergeron's 5 TDs lead Texas over Baylor
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) -- Joe Bergeron ran for five touchdowns and Texas outlasted Baylor 56-50 Saturday night in another wild one in the Big 12, snapping the Longhorns' two-game losing skid.
Bergeron fell one touchdown short of the school record held by Heisman Trophy-winning running back Ricky Williams. David Ash passed for 274 yards for Texas (5-2, 2-2 Big 12), which overcame...
Longhorns lose to West Virginia in tonight's match-up in Texas
Tonight in Austin the city will be a little less cheery, as the number 11 ranked Texas Longhorns lost to number 8 West Virginia Mountaineers.
Texas RB Joe Bergeron had a good game scoring four touchdowns, all on short runs. The team showed their aggressive defense all night.
The game was still close with Texas in field goal range mid-way though the fourth. It was then that a bad...
West Virginia at Texas: Three Bold Predictions
October 6, 1956-- this was the last and only time these teams have met. The game was played in Austin, TX in front of 30,000 people and West Virginia won by a score of 7-6 and finished the game with 46 yards passing. There might be a statistic or two that suggests this year’s game will be slightly different.Prediction 1. Texas will win the game by controlling the red zone...
NCAA FB Rumors: Did Big 12 Apologize To Oklahoma State After Helping Texas Win With Blown Call?
According to a newspaper report, Big 12 conference officials apologized to Oklahoma State Cowboys football coach Mike Gundy after blowing a call that led to the Texas Longhorns pulling off a last minute victory in Stillwater last Saturday.
The Big 12, however, is saying that those reports are false.
“Reports that the Big 12 acknowledged a blown call and issued an apology to Oklahoma...
Did The Big 12 Apologize To Mike Gundy Or Not...???
((HT: Newsok.com))
According to Gina Mizell, the Big 12 Conference has apologized to Oklahoma State head football coach Mike Gundy over the botched call at the end of the 41-36 loss to Texas Saturday.
But the 12/10 is saying that they have done no such thing...
The head of the 12/10's officials, Walt Anderson, “apologized profusely” and admitted to Gundy that Joe...
CFB Week 5 Upon Further Review
Welcome to Upon Further Review – a FireEverybodyDotCom joint and a Taking Bad Schotz production. Here we will take a look back at what was while spinning it forward.
We run this like a 2-minute drill: We take our time when we need to, but other than that, we keep the chains moving and don’t bother huddling.
Surviving scares
That proved to be the moral of the weekend. No. 5 Georgia...
Gundy still questions Texas touchdown
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) -- After taking another look at the replays, Oklahoma State coach Mike Gundy still has questions about Texas running back Joe Bergeron's winning touchdown in the teams' Big 12 opener.
Gundy said on a conference call Sunday night that the first thing he did in the morning was look back over film of the play from the previous night.
"I think he fumbled...
Gundy still questions Texas TD
After taking another look at the replays, Oklahoma State coach Mike Gundy still has questions about Texas running back Joe Bergeron's winning touchdown in the teams' Big 12 opener.
Gundy said on a conference call Sunday night that the first thing he did in the morning was look back over film of the play from the previous night.
''I think he fumbled,'' Gundy...
Gundy still questions winning Texas touchdown
After taking another look at the replays, Oklahoma State coach Mike Gundy still has questions about Texas running back Joe Bergeron's winning touchdown in the teams' Big 12 opener.
Gundy said on a conference call Sunday night that the first thing he did in the morning was look back over film of the play from the previous night.
''I think he fumbled,'' Gundy...
Ash, Longhorns take Oklahoma State in Big12 Thriller, 41-36
STILLWATER — David Ash came up big Saturday night. Real big. Ash hit tight-end DJ Grant with a crossing pattern on a fourth down for a 29-yard gain, followed by 34-yard long toss to Mike Davis, setting up Joe Bergeron’s 2-yard touchdown run with :29 seconds left as the No. 12 Texas Longhorns defeated the [...]
Technology's blessing — and its curse
Forget about the hand being quicker than the eye, the camera's faster -- and slower -- than both of them.
Super-slow-motion replays, combined with high-definition TV pictures, have not only changed how we view a game but also how officials do their jobs. And while those innovations have been great for the couch potatoes in all of us, officials have never been under more scrutiny...
Texas holds off Oklahoma State
David Ash threw three touchdown passes to Jaxon Shipley and Joe Bergeron scored on a 2-yard run with 29 seconds left to lift No. 12 Texas to a 41-36 win against Oklahoma State on Saturday night.
Ash directed the Longhorns (4-0, 1-0 Big 12) on a 75-yard scoring drive after the Cowboys (2-2, 0-1) had taken the lead on Quinn Sharp's 23-yard field goal with 2:34 to play.
Ash connected...
Texas outlasts OK-State in Big 12 shootout
STILLWATER, Okla. (AP) -- David Ash threw three touchdown passes to Jaxon Shipley and Joe Bergeron scored on a 2-yard run with 29 seconds left to lift No. 12 Texas to a 41-36 win against Oklahoma State on Saturday night.
Ash directed the Longhorns (4-0, 1-0 Big 12) on a 75-yard scoring drive after the Cowboys (2-2, 0-1) had taken the lead on Quinn Sharp's 23-yard field goal...
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