Here’s a piece of trivia that will only be good to use until Saturday (I think). The first game Texas lined up as the #1 team in the nation during the regular season and the last regular season game that the Horns entered as the top team in the nation have both ended in a […]
Taylor TRoom makes an impressive argument for the value of the Texas-OU contest being played in Dallas. He bases it on the neutral site and the national championship implications of the rivalry.
Today I would like to make the case for keeping the game the way it is, and where it is, from another angle. This […]
When Texas went to Fayetteville in October of 1965, the Horns were riding high on the hog. Texas was #1 in one poll - #2 in the other. From the start of the 1961 season until that Saturday, Texas was 44-3-1. They had taken up permanent residence in the Top 5, with one National Championship […]
We have had some great information this week and two weeks ago when we were first slated to roast the pigs, so here is a recap for you.
Arkansas at Texas
2:30 Kickoff
Televised on ABC
ABC Regional Coverage Map
Also available on ESPN360.com if you don’t have a TV but do have a computer and the right high speed […]
The combination of the unscheduled off-week, along with Taylor TRoom’s outstanding look at the incomparble Bobby Layne brought out a note of nostalgia for me as well. Tommy Nobis will have his jersey retired along with Layne’s at the Arkansas game. Among all his other accolades, Nobis was a star in two out of the three most […]
My father-in-law, Gary, is a true orange-blooded Texas Longhorn. He is the only child of two graduates of the University of Texas. He graduated from the pharmacy school the year of our last national championship (pre-Vince), married a Longhorn, and raised two daughters – both Texas graduates and both Texas Angels while […]
On Aug 30th, Texas opens its season by hosting Florida Atlantic. Mack Brown will begin his 11th season as the Longhorns Head Coach. In the 116 years of UT football, only one other coach has lasted as long.
Darrell Royal was at Texas for 20 years. Bear Bryant stayed at ‘Bama for 25 years. Woody Hayes […]
ChrisApplewhite on the pontiff.
Scipio on resting up for the Fiesta.
Scipio on Boeckman, Pryor and Tressel.
Scipio on lesser bowls.
TaylorT on the BCS Championship Game.
Scipio on the Sewing Circle.
Huck explains the BCS.
Scipio on RTDB.
CallKev on Colt McCoy.
srr50 remembers Tommy Nobis and the 1965 Orange Bowl
TaylorT on a Longhorn Legend
Barking Carnival hosts the blogpoll Roundtable Round Up
Trips on this year’s squad.
TaylorT’s series on cheating in 10 chapters.