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Texas’ offensive line was considered one of its weakest position groups under former head coach Tom Herman. Now that Steve Sarkisian and Kyle Flood have taken over, recruiting and development along the line has now become one of their biggest strengths.The Longhorns landed two five-star players on the offensive line in the 2023 recruiting class. Left tackle Kelvin Banks more than lived up to his ranking ...

The 2023 college football season hasn’t even started yet, but NFL draft analysts are already projecting the top prospects for the next draft.There will be many surprises depending on the performance of particular players this upcoming season. For example, Texas quarterback Quinn Ewers could skyrocket into being viewed as one of the top prospects in the 2024 NFL draft, or he could fall to the middle ...

We have a winner for the most tired phrase of the offseason: Texas is always the most talented. Following Phil Steele’s position rankings reveal, its the only line to which naysayers can turn.Texas always has the talent. It’s the cover of truth surrounding a false premise. When discussing what the team returns from last year, talent isn’t really even the point.Buy Longhorns TicketsThe most notable ...

Over the last past week Texas quarterback Arch Manning has been making headlines in a major way.And no it’s not because he has won the starting quarterback job or will be transferring because of where he is on the depth chart, it’s because of an NIL deal. Something that he initially wasn’t going to partake in until he was the starter, but he did so for a good cause.Buy Longhorns TicketsManning recently ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — One of the dozens of honky-tonks that line Lower Broadway Street in downtown Nashville, Robert’s Western World offers “The Recession Special,” a fried bologna sandwich with chips, a Pabst Blue Ribbon beer and a moon pie, all for just $6.It’s not brisket, it’s not breakfast tacos, and it's certainly not Tex-Mex. But it’s the SEC, and Austin better get used to it by the start of the ...

Tennessee revised its 2023 football media guide on Monday to note it was ordered by the NCAA to vacate two seasons of wins from fired coach Jeremy Pruitt's era. But those victories haven't been completely erased.The scores of those 11 wins are still listed with an "Editor's Note" in bold type, which says victories were "vacated by the ruling of the NCAA Committee on Infractions penalty in July 2023."And ...

Tennessee football got some gigantic news, literally and figuratively, with the commitment of 6-foot-7, 330-pound offensive tackle Bennett Warren."I'm Home!!!," Warren wrote Monday on X, formerly known as Twitter.The enormous lineman chose the Vols over Michigan, Oklahoma and Texas A&M.“It’s that environment, that coaching staff, no other place like it,” Warren told 247Sports.Warren, a four-star prospect, ...

I was sitting at one end of the bar in a local restaurant when I heard a voice at the far end.The voice also was probably heard in Gatlinburg. And maybe, Crossville. It carried like a roar of thunder from one of our summer storms.The couple nearest him didn’t seem to mind. He was preaching to the Big Orange choir of which they apparently were members.His booming optimism was the kind usually reserved ...

Tennessee received its biggest football commitment of the 2024 signing cycle Monday.Literally.Bennett Warren, a 6-foot-7, 330-pound, offensive tackle from Fort Bend Christian Academy in Sugar Land, Texas, gave a nonbinding pledge to the Volunteers. Warren, the No. 8 tackle and No. 143 overall prospect on the 247Sports.com composite rankings, took official visits in June to Texas A&M, Michigan, Oklahoma ...

Although Warner began his true freshman season on the bench, perhaps no one in the country wanted the 2022 season to go on more than Warner. He threw for school records in attempts (63), completions (45), and yards (527) in the season finale vs. East Carolina becoming the first Temple quarterback to throw for 500 yards. He is also the first to have two 400-yard games in the same season and the first ...