Hi and welcome to another edition of Right

on Rangers Live, coming at you in the

fourth quarter, five and a half minutes left.

Texas leading Tennessee 20 to 10, and they

just accentuate that lead a little further with

a nice touchdown drive to really eliminate a

lot of clock here.

It hasn't been pretty, but you know what,

you're on the road, you're in SEC play,

you got other teams in the state losing

to lesser SEC opponents, it's hard to complain

too much.

Hard to complain too much.

You up double digits on the road in

Knoxville, Neyland Stadium, against the number 14 team

in the country.

Is there a lot to clean up here?

A hundred percent.

I think the defense, I can't say there's

a lot of negatives to claim for them.

The special teams unit gave up seven, defense

is not allowed a touchdown today.

I mean, look, the defense is championship level

at this point.

I think the argument is against the offense

solely, but nevertheless, the offense comes through there

with its biggest drive of the game to

put the rain, excuse me, to put the

Longhorns up by double digits there.

Very impressive drive.

Arch Manning, very uneven today.

He's made some incredible passes, but he has

also looked a little bit lost at times.

Tennessee defense has been bringing the pressure basically

all night long.

And so you definitely have not been helped

out in that regard.

Arch has had a few clean pockets, but

especially in the second half, a lot of

pressure.

They found a way.

The game is not over yet.

We still have five and a half minutes

left to go here.

Texas is going to be kicking off to

Tennessee here in just a few moments coming

out of the commercial break, but we're going

to see if we can't finish this thing

out.

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Look, Texas, at this point, you got to

accentuate the defense here.

130 yards total for Tennessee's offense, and they're

averaging 2.2 yards of play.

This defense has been incredible.

I don't think you can really say enough.

There's so much crap that gets laid at

the feet of Arch Manning, and the defense,

I feel like, I put a video out

on this earlier in the week.

The defense, I feel like, automatically just gets

overshadowed.

The criticism is so heavy on Arch at

times.

You just don't give enough flowers to what

this defensive unit is able to do.

Today, you have, again, just to be clear,

130 yards in the fourth quarter.

We're almost over halfway through the fourth quarter

at this point, and the defense is only

allowed 130 yards. We'll see what happens here.

Maybe you soften up a little bit.

I wouldn't.

Even though you're up 10, I would not

be softening up a little bit here.

Unfortunately, Gianni Spetic going to kick this one

out of bounds, and it looks like Tennessee

is going to get pretty good field position.

Amanda, what's good?

Appreciate the comment.

Look, the Simmons penalty, I do think, in

general, let me say this.

In general, I don't love the overemphasis that

the NCAA, even the NFL, has put on

policing celebrations.

I definitely think that they have gone a

little bit too far one direction.

That being said, I think the penalty by

Simmons is ridiculous in that spot.

I don't know what they've been told.

Don't know how much it's been drilled in

their heads.

What exactly you can and can't do.

Nevertheless, not a classy move by Colin.

To his credit, he's responded.

He's responded in this ball game.

I did see some people, he needs to

be benched the rest of the game.

I mean, look, this is a team sport,

and there is a place for punishment.

Even within a game, you're off a series,

you're off a quarter, you're off a half.

I'm really not a big believer for something

like that, benching him for the rest of

the game.

That only really hurts the team.

I don't know.

I know some people might totally disagree with

me.

I don't think that is crazy new school

either.

Yeah, I mean, maybe in high school or

middle school football, your coach would bench you

for the rest of the game.

When the stakes are this high, it's different.

It just is.

And I think they handled it well.

They pulled him out.

They definitely had to miss some of the

time out there on one of the drives.

I forget what point in the game it

was, but I don't think that Colin Simmons

needed to be benched for what he did.

He was penalized.

I'm sure he was given a stern talking

to by the coaching staff and by teammates,

to be fair.

But yeah, the bench Colin Simmons crowd, I

don't get that.

I think that's just hurting the team in

general.

There's a time and a place to send

a message here.

And I don't think right now on the

road, you're battling in this environment.

I don't think it's the right time.

Handle it at practice.

He's got to do some gassers.

If he's got to do a little more

running, sure.

But you don't do that to the whole

team on the road battling in Knoxville.

Christy, what's good?

Yeah, we'll obviously be mixing and matching.

I'm sure a little bit.

The Rangers are going to be playing here

in about an hour.

Yes, Josh Young did break his hand.

All right, fourth and three game on the

line right here.

We will see.

Ball is snapped.

He's trying to run.

He's not going to get anywhere.

Longhorns are going to sack Brandon and that

is a turnover on downs.

That should do it here in Knoxville.

Texas will be tasked with bleeding out the

clock, but the defense once again stands strong

and it looks though Texas will remain undefeated.

Arch Manning and company going to need to

bleed this one out.

What a performance.

Colin Simmons just was talking about him.

He's come back with a vengeance in this

ballgame.

You have Kanu.

You have so many different guys to talk

about that have stepped up and just suffocated

this Tennessee offense.

Totally suffocated this Tennessee offense, man.

136 total yards.

If Texas can get this all the way

down to zeros without any garbage yards, more

garbage yards being acquired.

What an impressive outing on the road here.

Look, it's a long way to go until

the college football playoff, but you start stacking

wins like this in SEC play, you definitely

get people's attention.

There's going to be a lot of haters.

A lot of people saying that Texas is

a pretender, a fraud.

They don't look that great.

They don't look like a number one team.

You just got to remember you have to

just win ballgames at some point, don't you?

There's a lot of teams that are losing

ballgames, but you know what?

The offense looks a little bit better.

The defense, there's not a lot of defenses

looking better than this one right now, though.

You can crap on Arch Manning all you

want.

There's not a lot of defenses in college

football that are looking better than the one

that is playing in burnt orange.

Tennessee, I think they lost the real UT

though, JBJ.

Tennessee, definitely losing the real UT discussion today.

That is for sure.

Appreciate all you guys hanging out.

Kachow, yeah, I'm with you on this.

We were talking about Colin Simmons.

You can't bench Colin Simmons in that moment.

I know there's a lot of different people

that follow the channel, follow the account.

I had some people DMing me, man, they

should bench him.

I'm just like, hey, it's not going to

happen.

It's not middle school football.

It's not high school football, man.

That is an old school, middle school, high

school football mentality.

You're doing things a little bit differently at

this level.

Honestly, as someone that's coached at low levels,

even at the middle school, high school level,

I'm probably not benching a guy for the

whole game for what Colin Simmons did.

Do you take him out for a few

plays?

Do you take him out for a series?

Sure.

But do you hurt the entire team by

benching him?

No, I don't think that is a smart

move by any stretch.

We keep on going.

Real UT, surely not Tennessee, especially after today.

I know a lot of y'all like

to go to that.

It's not even a debate.

It's just something that at this point, people

on the losing side are going to say,

just to try and cut a little bit.

Come on now, scoreboard, scoreboard.

It's like the ultimate truth serum.

Nobody, when you say UT, nobody, I've said

this so many times, nobody thinks Tennessee except

for people that are from that area.

Nobody hears UT, even the A&M fans.

Even the A&M fans hear UT and

they'll be quick to correct you to TU.

Not even A&M fans hear UT and

think Tennessee.

Come on now.

You say UT to an A&M fan,

they're more worried about correcting you to TU

than they are about Tennessee.

Garen freaking T.

I don't even know that this is debatable,

but yeah, I'm sure in Tennessee and in

Kentucky, some surrounding areas, you've got a few

people.

You've got a few people that hear UT

and think Tennessee.

It's not many.

It's definitely not the majority.

We'll say that.

Carson, good game to you.

Tennessee still got a road out ahead of

them.

That is for sure.

They have, looking at their schedule, they've got

some good opponents coming up.

Auburn, that's always an interesting game.

Arkansas is pretty down this year.

Alabama on October 17th is going to be

pretty big.

A&M plays Tennessee on November 14th.

Then LSU, that's going to be a stretch

right there, man, when Tennessee has to play

A&M and LSU back to back.

We'll see what A&M does.

We will see what A&M does.

They obviously lost to Kentucky.

Pretty bad loss.

Looked pretty ugly.

Who knows how they are going to hold

up the rest of the way.

I think the jury's out on that.

That's for sure.

Tennessee with a freshman quarterback.

He's got a lot of talent, but I

think it's going to be hard to really

ride with Tennessee as a legit contender.

You've got a long way to go for

Brandon.

He looked good today.

At times, he really can use his legs

well.

A little bit too much urgency to run

when things would break down.

It's hard when you've got the Texas defense

bearing down on you, but it just felt

like he bailed a lot today.

He was getting hit around a little bit,

too.

I think, though, you've got a good foundation.

If you're a Tennessee fan with Brandon, he

definitely has some tools.

You've just got to lock things in between

the ear holes, and you also have to

continue to get him more and more experience.

I think he could be something special.

He was definitely a guy that I had

circled coming into this game.

Clearly, the Longhorns defense, Will Muschamp and company

did as well.

Let's see.

What do we got?

Scott, good morning to you, too, baby.

That's an interesting comment there, man.

Notre Dame, I don't rate Notre Dame very

much.

I'm sure that'll make your morning a whole

lot better.

Notre Dame, I'm just, I'm never convinced on

Notre Dame, but maybe they'll surprise some people

this year.

Seems like they always find a way to

crap the bed at the end.

We'll see.

Should be interesting.

Hey, let's go Longhorns, indeed.

Hook'em.

Yes, sir.

All y'all on TikTok, thanks for hanging

out.

Couldn't beat Georgia, so they just took him

off the schedule.

Notre Dame, yeah.

That is what happened, huh?

I don't even keep up with all that

stuff.

Notre Dame cried about Georgia, took him off

the schedule.

Scott, is that what happened?

Didn't want to lose?

It's too bad.

I'm glad that we talked about this.

I'm glad that Sark didn't take the ball

and go home.

He played the Ohio State game, and he

made it a point to stick with it,

to ride it out.

Doesn't mean that maybe in the future with

scheduling they're not going to do something different,

but I'm really glad Sark decided to play

that game.

Even if we would have lost that game,

I still think it's the right thing to

do.

I told you guys, just for the of

Austin and for the fans, for the students,

it really is just a special game and

a special atmosphere and environment.

I talked to a lot of people that

went to that Ohio State-Texas game, and

clearly the win makes it a lot better.

I don't think anybody's denying that, but a

lot of people talked to me about the

electricity just before kickoff, and outside of the

stadium.

You know, you cancel the Ohio State game,

and that all goes away.

Not really, I think, good for college football

in general.

I think it is a little bit more

indicative of the system, the playoff and the

committee and all that, but you definitely don't

want to see these big matchups go away.

Yeah, I mean, look, Mark Texas of late

definitely has not finished things off well down

the stretch.

You know, you have the Ohio State game

a couple years ago, Quinn Ewers.

Yeah, you definitely have not had Texas steal

the deal since VY back in that championship,

man, against USC.

It's been a while.

It's hard in college football.

It really is.

A lot of teams, not easy to win

a championship.

That's why you got to appreciate them when

they come.

We'll keep rolling.

Thank you for everybody hanging out.

Yeah, look, Kachow, I'm with you.

I would have liked to have seen a

little bit more aggressiveness with the play calling

their comments said four minutes left past the

ball.

At least would have thought you could have

dialed up a couple of high probability, high

percentage throws start going ultra conservative, choosing to

bleed some clock Tennessee using the timeout.

So I mean, at this point, you definitely

do not have any opportunity to stop the

clock except for that two minute warning.

Yeah, in that series, though, it's going play

by play.

Brandon is going to hit a receiver just

short of the first down marker.

I mean, it was all Archie, they're getting

sacked or Russia's Cooper was Cooper Rush twice

and then Arch got sacked.

Maybe they were going to throw on that

third down.

Maybe.

Tick, tick, tick, Brandon steps back.

He checks it down and we're actually going

to have did he catch it?

No, he dropped it.

We're going to have 31 here.

Thoughts on that Simmons penalty rising tides and

a lot of people have asked me about

this so far.

So I'm sorry for any repetition here.

Long story short, I think it's a stupid

move by Colin, especially if you've been prepped.

And I've got to think these guys are

prepped on what you can do, what you

can't do.

I can only assume that this glass half

full trying to give Sark some credit.

I can only assume they go through.

Here's what you can do.

Here's what you cannot do.

Texas defense is going to stop Tennessee here.

It's going to be fourth and one with

the clock still running.

I do think in general, the NCAA and

the NFL could spend a little less time

policing the celebrations.

That being said, I think it's a dumb

move by Simmons shouldn't have done it.

I think he'll admit that to after the

game, if given an opportunity.

And it's a lot easier when you win

the game ultimately.

So hopefully that can happen here.

It's looking pretty good for the horns right

now.

And then Simmons had a monster game moving

forward.

We also discussed, you know, some fans to

talk around social media a little bit, at

least the people that I interact with.

You had some notions of, you know, should

you bench him for, you know, the rest

of the game or for the half, like,

you know, kind of the old school mentality.

You know, I've always said this is a

team sport.

You have to, as a coach, you're Sark,

you have to consider the context, you know,

there's a time and a place.

I was never a big fan and I've

never been a big fan of making the

entire team suffer.

I just don't think that it really teaches

a great lesson.

It's not the lesson that you think it

is when you're benching a guy to make

the entire team be at a disadvantage.

You're on the road in a hostile environment.

I think that the series that he took

off, I know he took off a few

plays.

I think that's plenty.

Maybe you do some running in practice, something

like that.

But, you know, putting your whole entire team

in a worse situation because of one impulsive

decision, it's not like he slugged anybody.

You know, I mean, it's not like what

he did warranted an ejection.

I mean, I would be very quick to

rail against anybody that's saying, hey, he got

a penalty.

He didn't get ejected, but let's throw him

out of the game.

Let's bench him.

That doesn't make a lot of sense.

We keep rolling.

Um, let's see.

We have a number of different things that

we can go to.

We got the two minute warning.

I believe.

Let me update the ticker here.

What are we doing?

We got some old Ranger stuff going on

here.

I got to fix this.

I mean, look, we'll be doing the Ranger

show a little bit later on, but let's

get this fixed up.

Here we go.

Rangers game is delayed.

Nate, you're a real one for that.

Thank you.

I have been totally locked in on Longhorn.

So I did not even realize rain delay.

It's too bad.

I was really hoping we could just go

back to back here, but I guess we'll

have a little bit of time in between

shows, maybe for the best, maybe for the

best.

There we go.

Roy, what's good?

Thanks for the comment.

Bunch of y'all who are hanging out.

I know have followed since we started the

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This is what we do every Saturday.

We hang out, talk college football.

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We also cover the Rangers, Texas Rangers, that

is during the MLB season that's wrapping up

this weekend, playoff baseball starting next week.

So let's come back and do this again

next weekend.

That'll be a lot of fun.

Texas, they actually their schedule moving forward.

Is it the bye week next week?

Yeah.

So they have bye week and then they

have Red River bye week next week.

I knew Red River was next, but I

just didn't know when you were going to

get that bye.

I knew it was either before or after

Red River.

So they will get a couple of weeks

to game plan for Oklahoma and then Red

River is upon us.

Cotton Bowl, baby.

Should be good.

I'm excited.

I'm excited.

Austin, absolutely.

The AL West teams right now in Major League

Baseball do not feel like winning a division

title.

That's for sure.

Oh man, that is for sure.

All right.

Hey, if you're just joining us right now,

Texas up 20 to 10, you do have

Tennessee trying to make it interesting here.

They have the ball, they are driving.

And so we will see how this one

finishes out.

Defense has been stout today.

Man, you would have loved if Texas could

have found a way to really ice that

game and preserve that 136 yard number that

the defense has put up.

They've only allowed 136 total yards of offense

to the volunteers today.

Really, really impressive.

They have just continued to show out every

single game.

And with all the talk about Arch Manning,

I feel like this defense always gets shorted

in terms of the flowers that they should

be receiving.

And it's going to happen again this weekend.

It's just going to happen again.

You're going to see a lot of arch

talk, just not enough talk about the defense.

I hope to be wrong because that's what

should happen.

Arch is absolutely a guy, a player with

talent.

I don't think there's any disputing that he's

got the tools.

It's not all coming together right now, but

I think we need to be done waiting

on Arch to become this superstar.

I really do.

I think that is kind of the continued

issue here is we're constantly waiting on Arch

Manning to be the superstar player.

And of course the hype determines that.

I do think the media hyped this guy

up to no end to where if he's

not a superstar, it's a failure.

I do think though, for the Longhorns fans

that have actually watched every game of Arch

Manning, I think he's kind of telling you

what he is.

Like he's a guy that definitely can wow

you with certain plays.

He had a few beautiful throws today.

He can do some things with his feet,

but he's got some limitations.

Now, can he develop?

Can he continue to get better?

I don't think there's any denying that.

I think he definitely still has a higher

ceiling than what he's showing.

But in terms of how we cover the

Texas teams that he's on, I think we

have to stop seeing Texas as so one

-dimensional with Arch.

I mean, this team has won ballgames in

a multitude of ways.

They've won it with high scoring.

They did that against Texas State.

Granted, it's Texas State.

You saw them do it very, very well

on the ground against Ohio State.

They scored well.

And then you also saw them do it

with defense.

And they've done that again today.

You've had an incredible defensive effort.

Last week was incredible as well.

It is just really sad that the defense

isn't more of the superstar, but that's how

it works with college football.

You're going to gravitate towards the quarterbacks, towards

the stars.

But the defense needs to be getting most

of the shine on this team.

It's incredible.

The media, it doesn't matter, it doesn't matter

the Austin media.

I'm not worried about the Austin media.

I think we're talking about the larger sports

media as a whole, aren't we?

I'm not worried about Kirk Bohls and all

those guys.

I know Kirk is a Houston guy, but

I'm not worried about all of what's going

on in Austin with how they're reporting on

him.

It's really a lot of the larger shows

that you see, Fox Sports, ESPN, that kind

of stuff, that have hyped this up.

And look, I got to be honest with

you.

I don't think that everyone in Austin covering

this team has been immune to not over

-hyping Arch Manning at any given point.

I think you've seen that on a number

of different occasions, especially when they first got

Arch Manning to commit.

And as he began to get some different

snaps and get some different plays during the

Quinn Ewers years.

I think that Arch, at this point, he's

got enough time out there on the field

that you're able to draw some conclusions.

And my best conclusion is the ceiling has

still not been reached, but I think he's

shown you who he is.

There's been enough games where I think you

can say that.

And I just have kind of stopped expecting

Arch to come out and have this 350

-yard, 100-yard rushing game.

I feel like a lot of people are

still waiting on that from him.

When's he going to throw for 350 and

have 100-plus on the ground?

I just don't know if that's going to

happen.

I don't know if that's going to be

his game.

Michelle, I've actually, I don't know if we

just must cover different people, but we must

follow different people.

I feel like the Longhorns fans that I

connect with on here a lot are pretty

critical of Arch.

Maybe we're talking about the casuals, but I

feel like there's a number of people I

interact with.

I was seeing a lot of it today

that are very critical, hyper-critical of and

Longhorns fans.

But that's just me.

I know we all have a little bit

of a different experience with it.

So with that being said, we keep on

going.

I don't live in Austin, but Michelle, it

wouldn't matter.

This is the same thing as do you

go to the school?

It wouldn't matter where you live.

Can you physically talk to every single resident

of Austin?

No, you can't.

So it really doesn't matter.

I don't care if you live in Austin

or if you don't.

That doesn't make you more in tune with

what's going on.

We're not all talking to every resident and

every football fan of the Texas Longhorns, so

it wouldn't matter.

It's like people that tell me, I've watched

this team for 40 years, so I know

more than you.

What?

I live in Austin.

I live in Arlington, so I know more

about you than the Rangers.

What are we talking about?

What are we talking about?

Just because you live where the team plays

means nothing about what you have in terms

of a feel for the criticism or what

everybody thinks about this team.

I don't know.

I get a lot of that every single

time I don't get it.

Let's just make good arguments.

Let's not worry about how long we've been

following the team or whether or not you

live in the same place that the team

plays.

Just give me a point.

A point can't be I live there, so

I know.

It makes no sense.

Longhorns, speaking of making no sense, have just

made this game very, very interesting.

We'll see what happens here.

Not good.

Not not good.

Potential turnover here.

Tennessee, by the way, only down three.

I think we missed that.

I saw it, but I know we didn't

cover it.

20 to 17 at this point.

Longhorns holding on by a thread.

Austin, I don't know.

Comment here from Facebook.

I don't think Texas is going to be

able to hold the number one spot all

year.

Offense is abysmal.

It's going to be tough.

All right, what do we got?

I got to turn this up.

We got a flag on the play.

Heupel doesn't look happy, so this is probably

good for Texas.

Wow.

Tennessee recovers the onside kick.

Incredible.

Special teams really costing Texas today, unfortunately.

Really costing the Longhorns.

You have Tennessee scoring on a kick return,

and now you have this.

Offense definitely needs some blame for not closing

this one out and putting more pressure on

Tennessee.

They did have a nice score there in

the fourth quarter, but it's sad.

Defense is going to have to win this

game.

Got to feel like the defense is going

to pin their ears back here.

That's really bad.

Hats to the football.

You had a number of guys just standing

around there.

Brandon completes a nice pass there.

So many guys just standing around not getting

hats to the football.

You had him tied up on the legs,

and nobody was coming to help out.

That was just bad.

We'll see what happens here.

Fall on the 39-yard line of Texas,

so you've got an opportunity here for maybe

a long field goal if you're not able

to punch it in.

Tennessee could win this game.

We'll see what happens here.

They're going to review whether or not the

knee touched down.

They had a little pass over the middle.

Brandon found a pretty wide-open target, but

it looked like maybe the knee may have

gone down as the Texas defender had him

by.

Let's see.

Nope.

He wasn't down.

That should be pretty quick.

Keep on going.

Appreciate all you guys hanging out.

We're hanging by a thread here, trying to

finish out this game.

Knee is down there.

The first angle they showed, it didn't look

clear.

A little bit more clock will run off

here, but the Vols have all day long

right now to talk about what they're going

to do next.

Not a lot of time is going to

go off at this point.

They lose about seven total yards.

Ball was at the 39.

It's going to come back to the 46

-yard line of Texas.

Tennessee's got 46 yards to go, 46 for

a touchdown.

I don't know what the field goal kicker

is.

I don't know where he's at, but you

got to feel like they probably want to

get that down to about the 30, at

least, to feel confident about a field goal

try.

10-second runoff.

I forgot about that with the reversal.

They do the 10-second runoff, so it's

going to be a minute and two seconds

left here.

Plenty of time for Tennessee.

No timeouts, though.

If you can get a sack here, if

you can really sit them down in front

of the sticks, behind the sticks, that would

be ideal.

109 on the clock, and it's ticking.

Getting a little nervy here.

I'm not even going to lie to you

guys.

Texas showing pressure, and they're bringing it, man.

They are bringing the pressure.

They sack him.

They sack Brandon.

That could be catastrophic for the Volunteers.

They're going to need to get on the

ball quickly here.

It is a third and long.

What are we calling time?

Oh, we got an injury timeout, so that's

a runoff as well.

That's got to be a runoff, right?

Injury, so no timeouts.

You got a runoff, don't you?

Let's see.

That was a huge call by Muschamp.

It was much needed.

You just can't give a freshman quarterback with

the game on the line all day to

throw.

You know what?

If he makes a great read and beats

you, if somebody else in the secondary gets

beat by one of their wide receivers, so

be it.

You can't let this freshman quarterback sit back

and pick you apart, man.

That's way too comfortable.

They did that a bit on the last

drive.

Clearly, you're playing a little softer, trying to

keep everything in front of you and eliminate

time off the clock, but, man, you have

to put pressure when the game's on the

line on this quarterback.

You just have to.

Right now, injured linemen for the Volunteers, so

we have a little bit of a break

in the action here.

Appreciate all you guys coming out.

Roy, no, Muschamp is the defensive coordinator.

Colin plays on defense.

20-17, Texas leading Tennessee here on the road

in Knoxville.

We've got less than a minute left in

this ballgame.

We will see if this one can get

brought over the finish line by the Longhorns

defense.

We are at the 50-yard line, even

39, and clock should continue to start.

Here's a snap.

Brandon flushed out.

He's going to try and run it.

He gets stopped short of the first down

marker, but there is a flag on the

play.

Maybe hold?

Maybe a holding?

Can we get a holding?

It looked like a little dicey.

We're going to have another Tennessee injury.

We got a hold.

It looked like there was some holding going

on at the line of scrimmage.

You never know what they're going to call

with the game on the line, but that

is a big call.

When are we going to get some runoffs

here?

We got another injury.

Is this not a college rule?

I know it's an NFL rule.

We've got a penalty, a holding penalty, and

we've got an injury.

When are we running some time off the

clock?

Maybe that's just on Sundays.

That rule applies.

Yeah, Kanu, it looked like as Brandon was

escaping the backfield, man, that had it all

over it.

You definitely wanted to back him up.

I know fourth down, it would have been

fourth down in short, but Tennessee's trying to

kick a field goal here.

You want this to be as much field

backup as possible.

Here we go, 25 seconds and ticking.

Brandon sitting back there.

He does have a lot of time.

They are going to call a flag, man.

One of the Texas defenders got the face

mask.

We're going to be doing this again.

In some way, at least he had some

time killed off the clock, but it's going

to be automatic first down.

Time is your most precious commodity, though, at

this point.

It's a hurtful penalty, no doubt, but at

least you have a little time off.

That's just a bad mistake there by the

Longhorns.

Bad mistake.

You're just grasping at nothing, man.

So many mistakes today.

So many mistakes.

Texas right now, after that penalty, they have

11 penalties for 115 yards on the day.

45-yard line here.

Texas showing a lot of pressure.

They only send about...

We got a false start here, man.

They were showing the pressure.

They were bringing about five total.

That'll be first and 15 now.

115 yards and penalties.

That is wild, man.

Absolutely wild.

21 seconds still left on the clock.

We're finishing out this game.

Appreciate all y'all hanging out.

Longhorns clinging to a 20-17 lead with 20

seconds left.

Brandon in the shotgun.

Takes it back.

Texas not rushing many.

Bad throw.

I don't think he caught that.

They're going to need to...

It's actually better if he did catch it,

to be honest.

Looked like it hit the ground.

This might be the last play of the

game.

They got to get this in the end

zone.

And it is over.

It is over.

Looked like it was potentially going to be

dicey there for a second.

There was a man open, but Longhorns had

three guys in the area.

Somebody threw a beanbag on the field.

I thought that it was a flag.

I don't know if any of you caught

that.

It looked like somebody, one of the fans,

threw a beanbag or something weird, a hacky

sack or something on the field.

I thought they were throwing a late flag

there for a minute.

That's why I was kind of letting it

play out.

I'm like, is this going to be pass

interference in the end zone?

Wow.

20 to 17.

Not sure what's going on here.

Yeah, they're kind of delaying the handshakes a

little bit.

Just wanted to make sure we didn't miss

anything.

But this game is final.

Appreciate everybody hanging out.

The Longhorns get a win in Knoxville.

It wasn't easy because, of course, it can't

be easy.

We know Texas, over the last several years,

loves to make it interesting at the end

of ball games.

The quintessential example of this has to be

the Arizona state playoff game from a couple

of years ago.

Who could forget, man?

Arch Manning, Holly Rowe interview.

Here we go.

This should be good.

Arch Manning and Holly Rowe.

Yeah.

Arch, good job, man.

Defense all the way.

Special teams was bad.

Offense was bad.

Defense owned this one, man.

And what a stand at the end there.

I don't think you can really say enough

about what they did.

Today, you had a really uneven performance from

Arch.

You had some great throws from him.

You had some really, really bad throws and

just bad plays in general.

The offensive line wasn't sharp either.

A lot of pressure on Arch in the

second half, especially.

But the defense has got to get all

the love today.

I mean, they shut down Tennessee, even on

that last drive after you have the onside

kick recovery.

Horns up, man.

Hook them.

It's good to get a win.

We can be nitpicky now.

We can break down everything that we want.

But you got to win.

You didn't lose this ball game.

And this is definitely one that I think

you're proud of.

Looking back, yeah, a lot of us that

are diehards, that enjoy watching every single down

and snap.

Yeah, we're going to remember how uneven this

was at times.

But at the end of the season, when

the committee is doing their thing and when

we're all reflecting, you're going to look back

on this and be thankful you won a

game in Knoxville.

20-17 against a top 15 opponent.

This can't be underscored enough.

It's not like Tennessee was coming into this

ball game 0-3.

They were 3-0 at the top 15

ranking.

Hook them to all you guys.

Appreciate you.

Thank you for the people that have followed,

by the way.

We cover a lot of Texas sports.

Longhorns are one of them.

College football, Saturdays.

We cover the Texas Rangers.

You can see some of my stuff in

the background, I'm sure.

But I appreciate you hanging out.

Longhorns win this one, 20-17.

We are going to give you all of

our breakdowns here in the post game.

But of course, we want to hear from

you guys too.

Feel free to drop a comment, drop a

question.

Would love to hear from you and your

hottest take on this game.

Some of your big takeaways as well.

We'll try and get to everything we possibly

can of substance.

But the defense leads the way.

You had, by the way, in terms of

sacks, you had 10 total sacks.

Colin Simmons had five sacks today.

Longhorns sacked Brandon 10 total times.

10 times.

That is crazy.

I posted, I tweeted this out.

By the way, if you don't follow me

over on X, I'm on Facebook and on

threads and pretty much everything.

Honestly, I do a lot of multi-posting

to a bunch of different platforms.

But during the game, I always react live

to different things going on.

And one of the things I said after

the Colin Simmons penalty, I said, man, he

better have the monster game of his life

after this.

And sure enough, he came to play.

After that penalty, dude locked in.

And in a major way, five sacks for

Colin Simmons.

Five sacks.

He was a monster.

Him and Biles.

I mean, Biles had 13 tackles and led

the team today.

Biles and Simmons in tandem, freaking monsters.

I mean, those guys are insane.

Biles, just an amazing, incredible pickup by Sark

and his team.

But pairing Simmons and Biles on this defense

just feels unfair.

It feels straight up unfair.

You've got the biggest reasons, in my opinion,

why this game was won.

The pressure that Biles and Simmons were able

to put on this Tennessee offense.

I mean, yes, you can definitely highlight McDonald.

He had eight tackles out of the secondary

today.

Had a pass deflection.

You had a number of other guys.

Littleton had a pass deflection.

January had a pass deflection.

You had some guys in the secondary doing

their thing as well.

But we all know most football games are

won up front.

And that is exactly how this game was

won.

The Texas defensive front overwhelmed the Tennessee Volunteers

offense and Faizon Brandon in particular.

Brandon's definitely got some tools.

He got loose a couple of times today.

Definitely makes you nervous when that happens, when

he gets outside the pocket.

But he has still got a little ways

to go yet.

Freshman quarterback.

Longhorns were able to rattle him a little

bit back there.

He really started tucking the ball a lot.

And that's what happens when you get pressure

on young quarterbacks.

Arch is an example of that too.

I don't think Arch is immune to that.

When you can get pressure on quarterbacks like

Arch, on quarterbacks like Brandon, especially Brandon being

his first year in college football, once you

start hearing those footsteps, now you're taken off

by default.

And you're not going through your reads.

You're not going through your progressions.

And I think you saw that played out

today in multiple different series and drives where

the game was on the line.

Andrew, I'm with you.

Thank God for Colin Simmons.

Yes, sir.

I know it's been a topic we've covered

a couple of different times, but I saw

a number of Longhorns fans wanting to see

Simmons benched.

Mike, you can't hurt the team like that.

Make Simmons do a bunch of gassers at

practice, man.

Make him do some bear crawls or something.

Don't hurt the entire team on the road

in Knoxville.

You prepared, you worked hard this entire week,

and you're going to bench him for the

rest of the game because of one impulsive

play, which he was already penalized for?

Yeah, I didn't understand anyone wanting to see

Simmons gone.

I know we got some old school Longhorns

fans, but still.

Still.

I just am not a fan of anyone

that was advocating for Simmons to miss time

and Sark, you know, not doing his job

correctly because he's not punishing Colin Simmons.

Come on now.

Come on now.

This is actually a crazy old hat.

I got this a while ago, man.

One of my friends gave it to me.

Everybody always gives me a hard time.

I mean, look, the baseball team, I feel

like reps the T a lot more than

the football does, but man, I like it.

You got the Texas flag over here on

the side.

It's old, doesn't fit perfectly, but man, this

is one of my go-tos, that's for

sure.

Simmons, the one that saved them, I'm with

you on that TikTok comment there.

He absolutely saved them.

Like Simmons, he, I think got probably challenged.

I think he got lit up a little

bit by some of the leaders on the

team, by some of the coaching staff.

And he responded.

That's what I love too is you didn't

see Simmons like go into pout mode and

not that I expected that he would, but

you didn't see Simmons shut down, man.

He rose to the challenge.

He knew he messed up and he decided

to have one of the games of his

life.

Great stuff from him.

Comment from Bino here, Sarkisian needs to stop

letting up when they're up.

It's been a problem.

I feel like Sark's entire career at the

university of Texas.

I mean, I brought up the Arizona state

game, playoff game with Skattebo and what Leavitt

and all them.

I mean, that was another quintessential example of

letting your foot off the gas.

You were up by 17, what going into

the fourth quarter or whatever it was.

And you just got really conservative.

You got really, really conservative and you see

Texas do that.

And I know Sark is trying to have

a balanced attack.

He's, he's trying to drain some clock.

I get it, but this team does have

closing issues.

The defense does not have closing issues.

It does feel like the offense has big

time issues, closing out football games.

I don't feel it.

I know this is totally eye test.

So somebody helped me out.

I maybe feel like against a lesser opponent,

you know, your Texas States, you know, your

UTSs, this might not apply, but against big

opponents like this, it feels rare that the

offense is actually closing out the game.

Like it feels like that drive where you

have that killer, this punch knockout, and you

totally ice four or five minutes in the

fourth quarter.

It doesn't feel like this team has that

a lot.

It feels like it's the defense making a

turnover, turnover on downs.

And then, you know, the offense takes over

with less than a minute left and kneels

it out.

It just doesn't feel like this offense gives

you a lot of those knockout drives with

five or six minutes to go.

Yeah.

Ronnie, I am definitely interested in looking a

little bit, a little bit more at the

offensive line play today.

I think it's easy just as you're reacting

live.

I don't think the offensive line had a

great game.

And in Arch Manning, if I could give

the offensive line a little bit of benefit

of the doubt, I do think Arch Manning

holds the ball too long sometimes.

Now there were certain plays where he was

overwhelmed pretty immediately, but I do feel like

Arch holds the ball way too long on

certain plays and is a little indecisive back

there.

And that doesn't help.

I do think the O-line is better

than last year, but they definitely did not

have their best game today.

That doesn't mean they were terrible.

They were awful, but I don't think they

had their best game today.

Scotty, what's good?

Comment.

Who wants to say it, but Arch is

too mentally slow?

Well out there, there's a lot going on.

Obviously Arch has plenty of experience.

I'll just stand by what I said.

I'll reiterate what I said.

I do feel like as you watch the

game and you watch Arch drop back to

pass, you know, there are times where he

has a really particular target in mind.

Like on the interception, he definitely had Coleman

in mind from the beginning.

And by the way, Coleman should have caught

that football.

We haven't even talked about this.

Cam Coleman should have 1000% caught that

football.

Immediately you've got everybody crapping on Arch.

Oh dude, you're throwing into double coverage.

The ball hit him right in the hands.

What are we talking about?

I don't care if it was thrown into

double coverage.

Arch hit Cam Coleman directly in the hands.

Coleman just got to fight for that football

a little bit, man.

You've just got to fight for that football.

Oh, crazy.

I really, really feel like that is a

great example.

A great example of how you instantly see

Arch become the center of attention when really

it should be somebody else as the focus.

After this game, Arch is going to be

under the microscope again.

Defense really needs to be the story here.

Arch on that throw, I don't think it

was overthrown at all.

It went right through his hands.

How could you say it's overthrown?

I mean, it's a 50-yard pass.

I mean, we're talking about like inches at

this point.

I mean, what are we doing here?

How could you say that was an overthrown

throw?

It literally was right here.

It was right at helmet slightly above eye

level.

It went right through his hands.

I have no clue how we can get

on Arch in that moment for it being

overthrown.

Cam Coleman got to go up and get

that football.

He's one of the highest, isn't he the

highest paid wide receiver in the game?

And you can't go up and get that

football?

To me, Cam Coleman, if you want to

go 50-50, go 50-50.

Don't sit around and tell me that that

is a majority Arch's fault.

The ball went right through his hands.

I just feel like Arch is just the

easy target at some point.

If you want to give Arch a little

bit of the blame, that's fine.

I guess the ball I think went right

through your best wide receiver's hands.

What more do you want Arch to do

there?

Pinpoint accuracy on a 50-yard throw?

Yeah, it's not by any means the most

like well-advised pass in the double coverage,

but that being said, you look at the

execution, it should have been a catch.

It should have been a catch.

I don't think Texas is going to move

at all, Scotty.

I think that is a big time overreaction.

Texas moves to number four or five.

There's no way Texas is going to drop

in the rankings at all after a game

like this.

You went on the road in Neyland Stadium,

in Knoxville.

There's no way Texas is dropping after this.

They're just not.

But can you argue who's better than them?

Maybe, but I would actually submit who is

better than them.

Who really is better than the Longhorns right

now that's actually proved it on the field?

I don't really think there's a lot of

teams that have played opponents better than what

Texas has at this point.

I mean, definitely want to just throw out

there.

You look around the top five.

There's not a lot of teams that have

played the caliber that Texas has.

Ole Miss, maybe you could throw up there,

but even Ole Miss beating LSU at home,

we're going to have to see how LSU

responds.

Ole Miss, I think, is maybe the only

one you could even say is in the

neighborhood.

But even then, Ole Miss didn't beat a

number one team.

Ohio State, number one team.

Ole Miss resume is going to go down

because of Louisville.

Hey, Texas 956, appreciate you.

I feel like that definitely is going to

start being taken into consideration, the opponents and

how they are doing moving forward.

I know that with Texas, though, they play

enough teams.

You're not going to have to nitpick how

Texas did against UTSA or Texas State.

You beat the number one team in the

country at home, and then you went on

the road and beat the number 14 team

at the time.

Florida's beating Ole Miss right now, 7-0.

We'll see how that game goes.

See how that game goes.

That'll be an interesting one.

Look, Florida, they were, I feel like, a

little bit on the come-up at the

end of last year.

We'll see what they do.

Florida, by the way, is after Red River.

I don't know if y'all realize that

or not, Florida is coming to Austin immediately

after Red River.

That is going to be a big game.

That's going to be a big game.

Florida, number 21 right now, if they beat

Ole Miss, that Florida game is going to

be massive.

It is right now a 7-0 lead

for the Gators, and it looks like, we'll

check this out, looks like the Gators have

the football again.

So they are driving again, or did they

just score?

Looks like they're driving again.

Here we go.

That would be big.

Florida could come to Austin.

I mean, they're 3-0 right now.

Florida could potentially come to Austin undefeated, and

that is another really big matchup.

Huge matchup for Texas.

The Longhorns do not have an easy path,

that is for sure.

I mean, look, Austin, Facebook comment earlier said,

just doesn't see how Texas is going to

stay number one all year.

I have a similar feeling.

I mean, I'm one of the biggest Longhorns

homers you'll find.

I try to cover the team as unbiased

as I can, but obviously, you see the

shirt I'm wearing, you see the hat on

my head, I'm definitely slightly biased, 100%, and

that might be putting it a little nicely.

But that to me is going to be

difficult for Texas, considering everything that they have

to go through this year.

I mean, you've got, let's just go through

it.

You've got Oklahoma.

Then after that, you've got Florida coming to

town.

You've got to go play Ole Miss, and

you got that a game at home.

Fortunately, you don't have to go to Oxford.

You got Ole Miss at home.

Mississippi State, you got at home.

They're number 24.

Missouri.

Texas has five straight games against currently ranked

opponents after Red River.

That is crazy.

I don't know that I realized this, looking

at the schedule, and I think a couple

of these teams have just come into the

fold, but Florida, Ole Miss, Mississippi State, Missouri,

LSU, all ranked, and those are the next

five opponents after Red River.

It is an insane gauntlet of games.

Fortunately, the only ones you have on the

road, I know Oklahoma is technically like a

neutral site game, but that game to me

is not really any kind of road game.

You got half and half, and the last

couple of years, you've had mostly Longhorns fans

with how badly Texas has found a way

to embarrass OU out there.

Florida at home, Ole Miss at home, Mississippi

State at home.

On the road in LSU is going to

be the tough one against Kiffin and the

Tigers.

Missouri in Columbia, no disrespect.

I can't say I'm as worried about that

one, but Missouri, they look to have a

decent team this year.

Arkansas in A&M to end the season.

If you're being very, very technical, which we

will be, six of the seven opponents to

end the season are ranked.

Six of the last seven opponents are ranked

to end the Longhorn season.

Arkansas, the only team after Red River that

is not currently ranked.

It's going to be tough.

Texas is going to have to earn it.

That's why I think you're so relieved and

elated, but you're relieved that they beat Ohio

State because you just have margin.

You have some margin for error.

If you drop a game, and you don't

want to, but if you do drop a

game to one of these teams, it's not

the end of the world.

Now, you probably can't lose three games.

I think last year taught us that well.

You're probably not going to be able to

lose three, but you could lose a couple

games and still be in the mix very

firmly for a college football playoff spot.

Texas is definitely, Jose, I'm with you on

this.

They're definitely going to get everybody's best shot.

It's very well said.

Good TikTok comment there.

Another comment from TikTok.

Bro, offense looks so bad, and I'm a

Texas fan.

They don't look great, and that does fall

on Sark.

It is weird that this continues to be

a thing.

Sark, this offensive guru, and you've got the

number one recruit in college football and Arch

Manning, and you're not able to be consistent

on offense.

You have some nice games occasionally, but you're

not able to be consistent on offense.

It's just a little mind-boggling to me.

I think, though, they've shown you what they

are.

I keep going back to this.

They've shown you who they are with Arch

Manning and Sark at the helm of the

offense, respectively.

Limited.

This is not going to be a team

that is going to get 350 yards through

the air and 100 on the ground from

Arch.

That's just not how the offense is set

up, and it's just not a possibility.

I think you're going to see them just

continue to keep going to a balanced attack,

a lot of screens to set up things

later on, Arch occasionally using the legs here

and there.

I don't really sit around and expect an

offensive explosion from the Longhorns anymore.

I really don't.

To me, I think you expect great—scratch that,

reverse it—you expect elite offense from the Texas

Longhorns defense.

Excuse me, you expect elite defense from the

Longhorns.

Tripping over myself here.

Need another cup of coffee, I guess.

But I don't necessarily expect the offense to

ball out every single game.

I really don't.

I know some people, it feels like, are

banging their head against the wall every single

game.

I'm thinking to myself, are we expecting them

to hang 50 points on an SEC opponent?

Probably not.

It's not to say they can't ever have

a nice day at the office and score

five or six touchdowns, but it just happens

that way more often than not.

I agree.

I know the UTSA coach got a lot

of love after that game, and they are

well-coached.

I think you look at UTSA, they are

a well-coached team.

But man, that game should have felt more

one-sided.

Should have felt a lot more one-sided.

Brian, I'm with you on this.

Comment from YouTube here.

We're still getting so many flags, which kills

us.

Yeah, Texas today, the flags were ridiculous.

It was a ridiculous day with the flags

today for the Longhorns.

And that does reflect back on Sark.

Last night, we were talking about the Rangers,

and we were talking about Skip Schumacher, and

how when Texas makes mental mistakes, how does

that not reflect back on the coach?

Well, with football, when your team is undisciplined

and you have a ton of penalties, it's

nearly impossible for that to not reflect back

on the head coach a little bit.

Yeah, Sark can't control what everybody's doing out

there, but the lack of discipline is a

reflection on the coaching staff always.

Doesn't mean they have to take a majority

of the blame, but they can't get off

scot-free.

They can't have no accountability.

We had 11 penalties for 115 yards.

Salem, you're on top of it.

That's ridiculous.

Traylor, yes.

Tray, appreciate that.

Traylor, the UTSA coach.

He's a great coach.

I do feel like that started to get

a little bit overused and recycled to help

explain away why the game wasn't a little

bit more one-sided.

I don't care how good of a coach

you are.

At some point, there's a talent gap.

Traylor does a nice job with the Roadrunners.

I'm definitely not saying he's not a good

coach or he doesn't matter, but even with

a good coach on the other side, there's

such a huge talent gap between UTSA and

the University of Texas.

It should not have been that close.

There's no way.

RJ, what's good?

Yeah, the Simmons sack celebration comment from TikTok,

it was wild.

I'm glad he came back and balled out

the rest of the game.

Cowboy, I wonder.

I had a similar thought.

Cowboy, by the way, don't take this the

wrong way, but we'll edit the comments slightly.

We got all age ranges hanging out watching.

Bud, you do your thing.

Don't take this the wrong way, but I'll

edit the comment a little bit here.

Vet Muschamp is regretting signing up with Soil

the Bed Sark.

Yeah, I think Muschamp, it's an interesting thought.

What he's probably thinking and feeling as he

goes through this year, he doesn't get a

lot of airtime, but I did think to

myself, man, I do wonder what he is

thinking and where his mental is at with

all this.

I do think you'd love to see the

offense coming at a little bit of a

higher rate.

And obviously with Sark calling plays, he's going

to get a lot of the blame there.

He is going to get a lot of

the blame here.

Will the NCAA TikTok comment or question here

punish the defender for the pissing stunt?

I don't think so.

That doesn't make a lot of sense to

me.

You penalized him in game.

Why do we need a fine or something

additional outside, man?

If it's to the point where you have

to fine them along with penalizing them, what

are we doing here?

If it's not that serious where the player

has to be ejected, I don't understand the

fines after the fact.

Vicente, what's good?

Talked about this a little bit, so I'll

keep this on the short version.

And I can only speak from my own

experience.

Some of you guys know, and I don't

profess to having some elite football career or

coaching career, but I've been a football coach

for a long time, very low level, definitely

nothing crazy.

But my perspective was always this, when it

comes to one guy doing something stupid on

the football field and you get penalized for

it, it's one moment in time.

I'm just not a fan of making the

entire team suffer.

You just worked your butt off all week

long.

I'm just not a fan of making the

entire team suffer for that, for one moment

in time.

If it's not worthy of getting ejected out

of the game, I just don't think you

need to go there with the ejection.

I don't think you need to personally take

it upon yourself to bench him.

Now, do you make Simmons do some extra

work at practice, if you know what I

mean?

Yeah, I probably would.

I would have told him straight up on

the sidelines, look, we're not going to punish

your teammates.

We've worked hard all week and we're not

going to have this one moment ruin it,

but you're going to owe me a practice.

I mean, that's what I would have told

him.

And you know what?

I bet he would have probably said, no

problem.

I don't think there's a real big argument

there.

I just don't think you make all your

brothers on the team, all the kids on

the team suffer because of one impulsive decision.

That's not even worthy of ejection.

Uh, college game day, bros.

Thanks for the comment.

YouTube comment here.

Oh, line struggled.

We talked about it.

The old line.

I want to go back and I'll rewatch

some of the film on it just because

it's hard.

Like was one guy getting beat?

Was everybody getting beat?

It does feel like the old line did

not have their best game today.

Now, Tennessee absolutely started bringing more pressure in

the second half, especially, but it just always

blows my mind.

Like you would just think with all the

resources available to Texas, you would just think

that it would be a little bit sharper

offensively.

I keep going back to that.

I know this isn't rocket science.

I know this is such a simplistic thought,

but it's just wild to me year after

year.

Like, why can't we get a really good

old line every single year?

Why is that a variable from year to

year?

No disrespect to the guys that are on

the old line right now.

I think a number of them are very

high quality players.

Maybe it was just a bad game, but

you do kind of sit back and say

to yourself, and there's so much money getting

pumped into this football program.

How is the old line?

How are wide receivers, you know, even going

to running back quarterback play?

How are all these offensive positions from year

to year?

Such a question mark.

I don't know.

It just feels like it should be kind

of NFL factory with how much money Texas

has the old line.

100%.

They are B Salem.

Appreciate all the comments.

You've been awesome today.

The old line on paper, they've got some

high quality players like they do.

And that's why I just say, why can't

it all get pieced together?

And I know naturally some people go to,

you know, the coaching.

I don't think that's unfair.

What's good coming here as a boss fan

at the end when the hail Mary was

up, I think it was a holding call.

I mean, look, the hail Mary in the

end zone, it's always going to get a

little dicey.

It was a little handsy in the end

zone.

I'm definitely not going to say totally clean

play, but it rarely is on hail Mary

plays.

And I just don't think they're going to

make that call there.

I mean, even so, isn't it just a

15 yard penalty at that point?

I don't know if there's some weird college

football rule.

I know in the NFL, they put it

on the two yard line, but at that

point, isn't it just a 15 yard penalty?

So it's not like that would have made

a crazy, crazy difference.

I mean, they would have had one untimed

down from what the 35 or the 30.

I mean, maybe you end up kicking a

long field goal and winning the game, but

it's just, or tying the game, I should

say, and going to overtime.

The wind was a factor though.

I don't know that a 48 yard or

a 49 yard or would have been money,

but I will say they're just not going

to call a penalty a lot unless it

is egregiously bad, egregiously bad.

Uh, Dallas Cowboys hope you're right.

Comment.

Texas will regroup against the Sooners and win

big hook them horns.

I surely hope that Oklahoma is a stepping

stone to some really sharp, crisp play, especially

from the offense.

I gotta be honest with you guys.

I feel extremely secure and comfortable with how

good this defense is like Oklahoma next week,

even doing the show here live.

I kind of thought to myself, man, that

could be interesting, but you know what?

That defense is just going to travel.

And then against the Gators there, they're going

to play well against the Gators.

Like this defense is just so good.

I mean, I think they're definitely susceptible.

Sure.

They could have an off game, but I

feel a lot of security with the defense

more so in than I do insecurity with

the offense.

I don't know if you can assess that

honestly within yourself, Longhorns nation, but I feel

more secure in will much champs defense.

Then I feel insecurity for Sark's offense.

That that's where I'm at right now.

I think Sark's offense can be just good

enough to win you a football game, but

much champs it, you feel unbeatable with what

he's got.

Now the special teams unit nearly cost you

the game today.

You had a punt return for a touchdown

by the volunteers and you had a recovery

of an onside kick late in the game.

Special teams almost cost you today along with

the offense.

Now if special teams doesn't soil the bed

today, it's probably like a 20 to 10

game.

And I still think you're looking at the

offense with eyebrow raised, but it definitely would

have looked a lot cleaner had they not

allowed that touchdown on the punt return.

I definitely have to say if you can

just be average offensively, this defense is going

to carry you.

I know a lot of us are really

counting on Sark arch to put up, you

know, 40, 45 points every single time they're

out there.

You just have to be average offensively.

And the defense is going to win you

a lot of football games.

Curtis, what's good.

Who do the red Raiders even play or

did they already play?

I guys gotta be honest.

I'm locked into baseball and I lock in

on Texas and maybe some of the big,

big matchups around college football, but gone are

my days where I can just sit and

watch college football all day.

Unfortunately, I got, got those times in my

twenties now with the fam and, and right

on Rangers and everything.

It is hard for me to watch a

full day of college football tough.

I mean, look, if you can do it,

do it and enjoy it while it happens.

But I feel like I only get to

watch about two or three college football games

at most at absolute most every single day

to come.

So I don't think Texas is going to

fall in the polls.

I think the way that it'll work is

they were on the road, hostile environment, number

14 team.

I think that they're going to stay right

where they are.

They beat Ohio state.

Nobody has a better win than Texas right

now.

I just don't think they're going to fall.

I know that that's what everybody goes to.

Oh man, they, they don't look like a

number one.

Well, but what matters is what happened at

the end of the game when the clock

hit zeros.

And what happened at the end of the

game when the clock hit zeros is winning.

So I just don't think that Texas drops.

If they do, I'm not going to sweat

it.

I think it's a little ridiculous, might make

a video about it, but I'm not going

to sweat it.

It's all going to work out, but Texas

has done what they needed to do.

You survive in advance in the sec, especially

on the road and the sec, just not

a big fan of nitpicking road wins like

this and saying, well, they're going to fall.

Somebody said four or five.

They're not going to fall to four or

five.

What are we doing here?

They're not falling that far.

Now you go to the polls and you

just go to all the rankings here.

So you've got really, in my opinion, not

a lot of other options outside of possibly

like Ole miss.

I mean, I don't know who you're really

ranking one, Georgia, maybe Georgia.

They're close behind.

I don't think anybody's putting Notre Dame over

Texas.

At this point, we had a Notre Dame

fan drop by earlier.

I don't think anybody's putting Notre Dame over

Texas.

Sorry about it.

I mean, Ole miss is, I mean, they

were, they're losing 10 to nothing right now.

Ole miss is losing to Florida.

I told y'all that Florida game is

going to be big after red river.

That Florida game is going to hit you

in the mouth.

Florida might be five and Oh, coming into

that ball game in Austin.

I mean, but yet Notre Dame, I mean,

who have they played Wisconsin rice in Michigan

state.

We're putting Notre Dame number one.

Come on now.

Notre Dame has played.

Nobody.

What about Georgia?

Georgia has played Tennessee state, Western Kentucky and

Arkansas, and they're playing Oklahoma right now.

And it's 14 to nothing in Oklahoma.

I think we all can agree is not

very good this year.

Not a great team.

I'm sorry.

Sooners fans that maybe follow me for the

Texas Rangers.

Oh, you does not look like a great

football team right now.

Could anything happen in red river?

Yes.

Do I think it's going to, no, I

think Texas is going to win that game.

Again, the defense is way too good.

Way too good.

Look, Georgia's played.

Nobody.

Notre Dame has played.

Nobody.

Ole miss probably has the next best argument

beating LSU, who was, I believe a top

10 to is still a top 10 team

in the AP poll.

Indiana.

Don't think they've played anybody either.

Indiana has played North Texas, Howard, Western Kentucky

and Northwestern.

Indiana has played.

Nobody.

No one in the top five, except for

Ole Miss has played anyone of value.

Texas is going to be right in the

number one spot on Monday when the polls

come out.

There's no question.

Salem.

The offense just totally stalled out.

We ran the ball twice with Cooper.

And then after that arch got sacked, Cowboys

win 35, 17 tomorrow, man.

I hope so.

Did y'all see the pictures of the

field in Brazil?

And I get it.

They're trying to grow the game globally, but

come on now you've got to have state

of the art.

When you go and play in these different

countries, you cannot have anything shoddy.

If you don't know what I'm talking about,

go check it out on social media.

A lot of talk being made about the

field in Brazil that the Cowboys and Ravens

are going to play on tomorrow.

And I get it grow the game globally,

but you cannot skimp at all when it

comes to the players and the surface that

they're playing on the amenities on real grass.

But it looked like there was like fertilizer

still down on the grass.

It comes to, did you see that?

Do you know what I'm talking?

You know what I'm talking about?

It looked like there was like grass fertilizer

still like they're still hoping that that grass

can grow on that thing.

What are you guys doing?

That's what you needed to be doing like

five months ago.

Brutal, brutal.

All right.

Hey, look, we have a lot to go

through in a little bit of time.

I want to go through players of the

game, Colin Simmons on defense, Biles right behind

him, Biles, 13 total tackles on the day.

Simmons and Biles just dominated this one.

And it is going to be very comforting

having those two guys terrorizing, opposing offenses week

in and week out, regardless of the inconsistencies

with Sark and the play calling with Arch

Manning.

When that defense is cooking like they did

today.

And like they did last week and really

all season long, you're going to win a

lot of football games.

Even if the offense is doing what they're

doing, which right now, I think most of

us can agree on this a little bit

of under-performance that's putting it nicely.

In my opinion, I look 11 penalties for

115 yards.

Ridiculous.

That's absurd.

Texas, you know, they, they basically spotted Tennessee

more than a football field like that.

That is a ridiculous amount of yards to

give up when you just say it out

loud over a football field's worth of penalties.

That is something that they have to clean

up, especially with Florida and some of these

big teams on the horizon.

Arch was efficient today, in my opinion, but

you still left a lot of meat on

the bone offensively.

You just left so much on the table.

Arch was four, uh, 14 for 19, 201

yards.

I mean, 10.6 yards per attempt.

He did have an interception that I feel

like probably should have been caught by Kim

Coleman.

The ball kind of slipped through Coleman's hands,

a little bit of a battle with the

DB.

I don't know that Arch was terrible today,

but I can't say Arch was good today

either.

They only scored 20 points despite moving the

ball efficiently enough at different times.

Finishing problem is really what exists.

We were talking about that earlier today.

Texas, just the closeouts, man.

They're just not able to get it done.

Week in and week out, closing out football

games.

You really have to rely on the defense

a lot to ice games.

That's something I think you'd really like to

see change moving forward as Texas really gets

deep into SEC play.

Raleek Brown.

Let's talk about him.

Raleek maybe looked like he was seeding some

carries to Hollywood Smothers.

I thought after Hollywood's performance against Ohio State,

I kind of wondered, would you potentially see

Hollywood start becoming more of the lead guy?

And today, Hollywood sits out injury-related, health

-related.

Don't think he's going to be out for

a long time.

I think they were even talking maybe he'll

be back for but Raleek Brown steps up

in a big way.

17 carries, 67 yards, four yards a carry,

two touchdowns.

Good stuff.

Derrek Cooper, he really didn't get a lot

of opportunities.

Seven carries, only had seven yards.

He really wasn't able to get a lot

of traction, but Raleek Brown, impressive.

First touchdown gave Texas the early lead.

Second touchdown pretty much iced the game until

the special teams unit was just about to

soil the bed for us, soil the game

for us.

Yeah, RG, I'm with you.

Comment says Brown did his best being the

workhorse today.

He did his job.

He absolutely did his job.

Brown, 17 carries, man, four yards a carry,

two touchdowns.

He'll take that line every single time.

Special teams has got to get better than

what they were today.

You cannot be giving up punt return touchdowns

with how good this defense is.

That is such a backbreaker for a team

when you've got a defense that is playing

at an elite level, and then the special

teams can't get it off the field.

In fact, they give up a touchdown instead.

That has to get better.

We even talked about, I put out a

podcast early this week, and I said I

felt like the Longhorns had the advantage in

special teams in defense, and that was going

to be a big reason they would win

today regardless of whether or not Arch played

elite or just played average.

Today, the special teams did not play great.

That's something they have to clean up.

I think at the end of the day,

winning ugly, it still counts.

It's absolutely okay to win ugly in this

sport.

You don't want to make it a consistent

trend.

Don't get me wrong, but it's okay to

win ugly, and I think that needs to

be said out loud.

Nobody's going to be giving this win back

at the end of the year.

You're going to see 20-17, the committee's going

to see 20-17 on the road against a

top 15 opponent, and that's really all that's

going to matter.

It's like hitting a swinging bunt for a

single.

You look at the box score.

Could it be a line drive?

Could it be a hard hit shot?

Who knows?

It doesn't matter.

At the end of the day, you got

it done.

Next up, Oklahoma.

I think the bye comes at a pretty

useful time.

You got a big game against a big

rivalry, a big opponent, and Oklahoma, although not

playing great right now, they absolutely can make

something happen in a game like Red River.

Defense, I think, is going to travel well

to the Cotton Bowl.

I'm not worried about them at all.

You just hope the offense can be a

little sharper, but I really don't have a

humongous worry going into this game.

A little bit of the things can get

weird.

It's Red River, but if you just really

look at each team, what they do well,

what they don't do well, Texas should win

this game by double digits comfortably, maybe even

three possessions or more.

I don't say that arrogantly.

I just think Oklahoma at this point, you're

getting the break speed off you by Georgia.

Looks like Oklahoma is knocking on the door,

though.

It's 14 to nothing in the second quarter.

OU has just not looked like a great

team.

Anything can happen in Red River at the

Cotton Bowl, but I think Texas wins that

game by double digits.

I'll definitely be doing a pod previewing that

next week, next weekend perhaps, but that's where

I'm at with the Oklahoma game right now.

All right, y'all.

Today told me Texas defense is absolutely real

enough to travel into any hostile environment in

the SEC and win a game.

Still unsure about whether Texas can clean up

the penalties.

It's been something week to week.

You've kind of thought they would improve, but

they've got to clean this up.

And then the next thing I'm watching, what

does Texas do with two weeks before Oklahoma?

What are they really going to try and

accomplish in this bye week?

You've got guys, I'm sure, that need to

get healthy.

You've got guys that absolutely are going to

need to get right in that regard.

But man, I hope that they have a

good game plan, a solid game plan for

this next two-week stretch.

All right, y'all.

Hey, look, I will be back on later

today.

I cover the Texas Longhorns on the show,

and I cover a couple of other DFW

sports like the Mavericks and the Cowboys too.

So if you follow today for Longhorns, just

know you'll see some different teams, some different

sports coming across your feed.

Look, appreciate you hanging out.

Appreciate you following today if you did.

But just fair warning, I always say, man,

if you're not a fan of the other

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Come and hang out.

You guys know I'm pretty flexible.

Some people have brought up Rangers even on

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It's never a big deal to me.

So just keep that in mind.

But later today, we will be back on

to cover the Texas Rangers and talk about

their game.

They are a game technically out of the

playoffs.

So last weekend of the regular season, it's

going to be great.

Salem defense with the W.

Absolutely.

Michael, no, let's not go twins.

Let's not go.

Michael goes throws.

Oh, geez.

Frozen Rangers are having a tough time figuring

out who's going to win this.

Hey, Robbie, thank you so much.

And guys, thank you to all you for

hanging out.

Look, I know I got a little hacked

off in the comments section, but you guys

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And the the the upsetness comes from just

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All right.

Have a great rest of the day.

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Thank you so much, man.

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The generosity is crazy.

Thank you.

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Whether you're here, just hanging out, commenting, giving

a gift, man, it's all appreciated.

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All right, y'all.

Robbie, thanks so much, man.

Thank you for the kind words.

And like I said, we'll be back here

in a couple hours for Rangers coming out

and talk baseball.

If that's your thing, if not, we'll maybe

see you in the next week or so.

I might do an off week live, if

you will, to talk Longhorns kind of podcast

style.

But I'll take some comments and questions along

the way, too.

So look for that.

Look for some content coming out to you,

some Longhorns content in the next week or

so.

But you go enjoy the rest of your

Saturday.

That's what I'm going to do.

Go watch some baseball.

Go watch some football.

Hang out with the fam.

It's going to be great.

And on that note, as I always say

to end every show, God bless and go

Rangers.