The Texas defense is tired of dealing with cylinders in practice, from tackling dummies to the imaginary one that has surrounded Colt McCoy to prevent rushers from hitting the prized quarterback.
With the lack of parity in college football, it’s hard to find teams playing a competitive game every weekend. Powerhouse programs like Texas and Florida find themselves taking the gridiron against teams that could hardly manage to beat a peewee football team on the weekend at the local community park.
Power rankings for the Big 12
Mid-week games becoming popular in college football due to TV exposure
At the beginning of the decade, Thursday night college football was in flux. Ratings were down and national audiences were disinterested with the unranked matchups between mid-level programs.
After five-year hiatus, former Texas defensive coordinator lands job
The bull is back in the ring. The bull being Carl “Bull” Reese, former Texas defensive coordinator. Reese had been in “retirement” since resigning from his post on the 40 Acres back in January 2004.
Texas receiver Jordan Shipley runs with the ball in Texas’ 45-35 win over Oklahoma in Dallas on Oct. 11. Shipley returned a kickoff for a touchdown in the game.
A sub-par opponent. A holiday weekend. Pretty much the same team returning for Texas from last season. There sure doesn’t seem to be any reason to attend Saturday night’s season opener against Louisiana-Monroe.
NCAA games of the week: No. 13 Georgia at No. 9 Oklahoma State (Saturday 2:30 p.m. CT, ABC); No. 5 Alabama vs. No. 7 Virginia Tech (Saturday 7 p.m. CT, ABC)
Louisiana-Monroe players to watch: Greg James, No. 2; Trey Revell, No. 12; Frank Goodin, No. 5
It’s revolutionized the game of football from the high school ranks to college. It’s a nightmare for opposing defensive coordinators to prepare and try and stop.
As much as the Big 12 changes — the rise of the spread offense, high-scoring games where defenses struggle to survive, the recent dominance of the South division — some things never change.
Cardia Jackson had walked the same streets of his hometown of Monroe, La., thousands of times, but there is one walk he made in 2006 that he will never forget.
Sophomore emerges from camp as opening game starter, but several others are pushing for his job
Vondrell McGee still vividly remembers looking on from the sidelines for hours as Texas and Ohio State squared up in the Fiesta Bowl and the Longhorns’ vaunted offense sputtered.
As the battle for the No. 1 running back spot faded with the injury to Foswhitt Whittaker, enabling Vondrell McGee to stake his claim for the starting job, another spot in the crowded Texas backfield is up for grabs.
Johnson is the team’s backup running back and short yardage back. When the team is on the goal line or needs a first down, the Longhorns turn to Cody.
Fozzy is quicker than McGee and Johnson and a threat to catch the ball out of the backfield.
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