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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 ...

TCU had an eventful weekend on the recruiting trail with a pair of commitments and one decommit.Let’s start with the good news. The Horned Frogs added two three-star prospects to the 2024 class with pledges from Creece Brister and Devondre McGee.Brister stars at Stephenville and is rated a top-50 interior offensive lineman nationally by 247Sports. Brister picked the Horned Frogs over offers from Air ...

TCU may have had the best cornerback duo in the country in 2022.The starters, Tre’Vius Hodges-Tomlinson and Josh Newton, were among the nation’s elite and were voted first team All-Big 12. Hodges-Tomlinson also won the Jim Thorpe Award as the nation’s top defensive back.However, the Horned Frogs didn’t have much depth behind the two stars which would put the defense in a bind whenever they needed a ...