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That is high praise. Derry always reminded me of Reed Boyd.

He’s no Tyson King

Think about it - When Miami was trotting out Ray Lewis, we had Tyson King running around back there
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3 minutes ago, Ghost of Shag said:

The idea that so many think we cakewalk through Florida is laughable.

Yeah, they’ve looked like shit.

So have we.

It’s not gonna be so easy in Gainesville. 

Agree, if Lagway gets going it will be a tough out.

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35 minutes ago, Eskimohorn said:


He’s no Tyson King

Think about it - When Miami was trotting out Ray Lewis, we had Tyson King running around back there

I mean let’s be fair….nobody else was running out an equal of Ray Lewis back then.

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On 9/21/2025 at 7:10 PM, Codaxx said:

I wouldn’t expect either offense to run the ball well. OU has real issue on the OL. Their DBs did struggle vs Auburn in 1 on 1s (Auburn has 1 of the best WR rooms). They were getting beat deep. This looks like a rock fight, that explosives and turnovers will make the difference. 

Wait, we can use explosives? 
 

anyone have a Mk19?

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FCB

Texas running backs Quintrevion Wisner and CJ Baxter, who have both missed games with hamstring injuries, are on target to return for the Longhorns' SEC opener at Florida on Oct. 4 at 2:30 pm CT, sources close to the situation told Horns247 on Monday.

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1 hour ago, Ghost of Shag said:

The idea that so many think we cakewalk through Florida is laughable.

Yeah, they’ve looked like shit.

So have we.

It’s not gonna be so easy in Gainesville. 

That doesn’t seem to be a common sentiment here

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Has anyone posted a full game recording? I couldn't find anything other than simulations on youtube. Best I could find was this 15 minute clip of highlights.

I missed most of the first half.

 

 

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30 minutes ago, sith_horn said:

Has anyone posted a full game recording? I couldn't find anything other than simulations on youtube. Best I could find was this 15 minute clip of highlights.

I missed most of the first half.

 

 

 

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2 hours ago, ousux said:

Just saw an article about the Cotton Bowl spruce up being completed. Not too bad tbh, but my expectations weren't sky high because of the price.

This means we're mudholing the cheating gooners this year, right?

Is it insulated against cricket-swarm-invasions?   Lulz.

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2 hours ago, Vertigo said:

I love how this guy nails the fact that we just pieface a&m all the time.

 

 

He also nails how Texas simply doesn’t give a shit about the rest of the league. He’s usually pretty good. 

2 hours ago, Ghost of Shag said:

The idea that so many think we cakewalk through Florida is laughable.

Yeah, they’ve looked like shit.

So have we.

It’s not gonna be so easy in Gainesville. 

Who the fuck thinks Texas is rolling in this game besides a couple of noob posters? 

1 hour ago, BurntOrange&White said:

Our concerned our edge rushers will get too far up field for Lagway. It’s a game you need to stay home 

You think a gimpy Lagway is gonna be the real difference maker with his legs, huh?

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2 hours ago, Ghost of Shag said:

The idea that so many think we cakewalk through Florida is laughable.

Yeah, they’ve looked like shit.

So have we.

It’s not gonna be so easy in Gainesville. 

Advantage: A&M

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On 9/21/2025 at 5:10 PM, BurntOrange&White said:

. I still don’t think he should be getting snaps at receiver, same for Butler. Seem like wasted snaps when you could have your young guys getting those #4 snaps and developing


Young guys? You realize that Butler is a redshirt freshman, right?

6 minutes ago, closetojumping said:

 

Who the fuck thinks Texas is rolling in this game besides a couple of noob posters? 

 


Me.

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10 minutes ago, closetojumping said:

He also nails how Texas simply doesn’t give a shit about the rest of the league. He’s usually pretty good. 

Who the fuck thinks Texas is rolling in this game besides a couple of noob posters? 

You think a gimpy Lagway is gonna be the real difference maker with his legs, huh?

I think in the first 4 games our ends have rushed up field way too hard and gave up lane integrity. 

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Florida is as probably as good of an opener as we could expect.  it is a game we should win and we will learn a lot about how far we have come since tOSU.

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5 hours ago, Vertigo said:

Disagree. I think OU will enter the game as a favorite no matter what happens. With all of the national media bullshit about Arch over the last two weeks, every talking head on the planet is going to say that Mateer is the better QB in this game even if he balls out at Florida, and hence will be the favorite. They are going to look at 10 sacks versus Auburn and think that their defense is more disruptive. It is lazy analysis, but that will drive the opening lines. 

Vegas is not the national media. If we win against Florida, we’ll open as favorites. The line may go the other way because idiots buy into the media narrative. 

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39 minutes ago, closetojumping said:

He also nails how Texas simply doesn’t give a shit about the rest of the league. He’s usually pretty good. 

Who the fuck thinks Texas is rolling in this game besides a couple of noob posters? 

You think a gimpy Lagway is gonna be the real difference maker with his legs, huh?

How do you know it’s from the refs? Because there’s an I heart Bama on the left cheek. Hahaha. 

I think most of these attempts are stupid but this guy usually delivers.

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2 hours ago, Ghost of Shag said:

The idea that so many think we cakewalk through Florida is laughable.

Yeah, they’ve looked like shit.

So have we.

It’s not gonna be so easy in Gainesville. 

I really think we win by 14-17

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Is it insulated against cricket-swarm-invasions?   Lulz.
Not sure that was in the budget, but we do get escalators now and everything looks freshly painted. Baby steps
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6 hours ago, Vertigo said:

Disagree. I think OU will enter the game as a favorite no matter what happens. With all of the national media bullshit about Arch over the last two weeks, every talking head on the planet is going to say that Mateer is the better QB in this game even if he balls out at Florida, and hence will be the favorite. They are going to look at 10 sacks versus Auburn and think that their defense is more disruptive. It is lazy analysis, but that will drive the opening lines. 

National media talking heads do not set the line. Vegas does.

Now, I do agree that a majority of talking heads are likely to PICK OU.

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Also, the media and talking heads are just as likely to start gargling Archs nuts again if he goes off two games in a row. Because it’s the better story than ‘Mater

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3 hours ago, Ghost of Shag said:

The idea that so many think we cakewalk through Florida is laughable.

Yeah, they’ve looked like shit.

So have we.

It’s not gonna be so easy in Gainesville. 

Like everything in life, it depends on a number of factors. 

If Manning shows the yips early, he's going to have a tendency to revert back to pre Sam Houston Manning. 

Florida frankly HAS to have success early. That is a program about to completely implode. Well, I'd argue they already have. If Texas gets up on them by a couple of scores early, everyone on the Florida side is going to give up. The fans, the players. The coaches will be texting their buddies pleading for a job opportunity. Napier will project delusion, but he knows the score. He's gone. 

If Florida gets up early maybe they get a dead cat bounce effect. Regardless, that program is going to have a new coach next year. They're just playing out the string at this point. 

Manning just needs to keep stringing together successful plays. One thing about the yips, is that once you get them, there's a niggling feeling in the back of your mind they can come back at any moment. He had one good performance against poor competition. It still counts, because what we saw in the previous 3 games wasn't about the opponent. It was about what was between his ears. I have hope and faith that he's going to be fine, but he'll have to earn his self confidence. There's no magic wand that's going to give it to him. And he knows that. 

I hope he has another opportunity to give someone a stare down. He says he doesn't care what the media writes about him. I'd like for him to show it. I like fired up Manning.

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3 minutes ago, SL Xpress said:

Like everything in life, it depends on a number of factors. 

If Manning shows the yips early, he's going to have a tendency to revert back to pre Sam Houston Manning. 

Florida frankly HAS to have success early. That is a program about to completely implode. Well, I'd argue they already have. If Texas gets up on them by a couple of scores early, everyone on the Florida side is going to give up. The fans, the players. The coaches will be texting their buddies pleading for a job opportunity. Napier will project delusion, but he knows the score. He's gone. 

If Florida gets up early maybe they get a dead cat bounce effect. Regardless, that program is going to have a new coach next year. They're just playing out the string at this point. 

Manning just needs to keep stringing together successful plays. One thing about the yips, is that once you get them, there's a niggling feeling in the back of your mind they can come back at any moment. He had one good performance against poor competition. It still counts, because what we saw in the previous 3 games wasn't about the opponent. It was about what was between his ears. I have hope and faith that he's going to be fine, but he'll have to earn his self confidence. There's no magic wand that's going to give it to him. And he knows that. 

I hope he has another opportunity to give someone a stare down. He says he doesn't care what the media writes about him. I'd like for him to show it. I like fired up Manning.

I mean he was making normal throws against SHSU, that was the difference. He makes normal throws against tOSU and Texas wins by 10. Stop discounting how fucking horrific his throws were against air. His throws against air + really bad players were acceptable and that's all they need to be in sarks scheme, guys are open A LOT in this offense. 

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3 minutes ago, immamac said:

I mean he was making normal throws against SHSU, that was the difference. He makes normal throws against tOSU and Texas wins by 10. Stop discounting how fucking horrific his throws were against air. His throws against air + really bad players were acceptable and that's all they need to be in sarks scheme, guys are open A LOT in this offense. 

Are we disagreeing? I feel like that's exactly my point of view. He made the throws in practice. Then in games he short circuited. That's what I mean by the yips. I do not believe for one moment that's now gone. He needs more positive reps during game time so that becomes his earned identity. 

I also feel like people who want to point to other aspects of the offense are going pink elephant in the room on us. When Manning is fubaring on plays that either make first downs or get us ahead of the chains that end up creating 2nd and 10 or 3rd and 10 series - or force us to punt, or give it over on downs - that's setting everyone else up for failure. We don't need Manning to be spectacular to have a very successful season. But we need him to make the easy throws for sure. 

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8 minutes ago, SL Xpress said:

Are we disagreeing? I feel like that's exactly my point of view. He made the throws in practice. Then in games he short circuited. That's what I mean by the yips. I do not believe for one moment that's now gone. He needs more positive reps during game time so that becomes his earned identity. 

I also feel like people who want to point to other aspects of the offense are going pink elephant in the room on us. When Manning is fubaring on plays that either make first downs or get us ahead of the chains that end up creating 2nd and 10 or 3rd and 10 series - or force us to punt, or give it over on downs - that's setting everyone else up for failure. We don't need Manning to be spectacular to have a very successful season. But we need him to make the easy throws for sure. 

I guess I'm saying he needs to be average at best to win a lot. If he's actually good that's a deep playoff run. The deep threat is real, but I agree that it seems like we don't have as much of a speed assassin that's gonna get 2-4 looks a game wide open behind all the DBs. Quinn made 1 out of like 10 or more of those throws, Arch has shown that he can do that much better, which opens up the possibility for him to be elite if he can get the short and intermediate game down like Carson Beck. 

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29 minutes ago, immamac said:

I guess I'm saying he needs to be average at best to win a lot. If he's actually good that's a deep playoff run. The deep threat is real, but I agree that it seems like we don't have as much of a speed assassin that's gonna get 2-4 looks a game wide open behind all the DBs. Quinn made 1 out of like 10 or more of those throws, Arch has shown that he can do that much better, which opens up the possibility for him to be elite if he can get the short and intermediate game down like Carson Beck. 

Yeah, I don't think there's much disagreement there at all. 

I do feel like we have some deep ball threats. Maybe not to the extent Worthy/Bond/Golden were, or even Mitchell. But I feel like Wingo can be more of that dude than he has been so far, and Livingstone has shown he can beat people deep. But he has to be able to make the throws to wide open receivers, which is not just about making the actual throw. It's about seeing it as well. The game still needs to slow down for him. But that's something of a different part of the equation from the yips. Colt McCoy needed the game to slow down for him before he went from what he was his first two years to what he became as a junior and senior. But he wasn't missing wide open guys in his first two years. He was simply not seeing the coverages as well as he did later on. And he increased his accuracy to inhuman levels, and even quickened his release, when it was already really good. 

But yeah. Manning doesn't need to be elite. He just can't be awful. And those first three games he was awful. The competition wasn't a factor, whether it was Ohio State or UTEP. 

In any case, an awful Manning can put all kinds of stress on the offense, regardless of opponent. My main point wasn't about Manning, though. It was about Florida. They're either on the precipice and we just need to push them off, or they've already jumped off the cliff, and we just need to hand them a bag of rocks so they'll drop faster and hit harder once they reach the ground. Like they say, it's not the fall that hurts, it's when you reach the ground. 

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8 hours ago, Cruz in Aledo said:

Vegas is not the national media. If we win against Florida, we’ll open as favorites. The line may go the other way because idiots buy into the media narrative. 

We are favorites and have been since july

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6 hours ago, SL Xpress said:

Yeah, I don't think there's much disagreement there at all. 

I do feel like we have some deep ball threats. Maybe not to the extent Worthy/Bond/Golden were, or even Mitchell. But I feel like Wingo can be more of that dude than he has been so far, and Livingstone has shown he can beat people deep. But he has to be able to make the throws to wide open receivers, which is not just about making the actual throw. It's about seeing it as well. The game still needs to slow down for him. But that's something of a different part of the equation from the yips. Colt McCoy needed the game to slow down for him before he went from what he was his first two years to what he became as a junior and senior. But he wasn't missing wide open guys in his first two years. He was simply not seeing the coverages as well as he did later on. And he increased his accuracy to inhuman levels, and even quickened his release, when it was already really good. 

But yeah. Manning doesn't need to be elite. He just can't be awful. And those first three games he was awful. The competition wasn't a factor, whether it was Ohio State or UTEP. 

In any case, an awful Manning can put all kinds of stress on the offense, regardless of opponent. My main point wasn't about Manning, though. It was about Florida. They're either on the precipice and we just need to push them off, or they've already jumped off the cliff, and we just need to hand them a bag of rocks so they'll drop faster and hit harder once they reach the ground. Like they say, it's not the fall that hurts, it's when you reach the ground. 

Texas has had a lot of pure speed at WR, but not a lot of guys with excellent ball skills. Livingstone attacks the ball in the air. He will come down with 50/50 balls. He is like Mitchell in that aspect. Wingo is great athlete, but I have yet to see him show off the ball skills and win 50/50 balls. It is a bit frustrating, because he has all the physical ability to be a great at it. 

I think Arch needs to be more than decent for Texas to make the playoffs. He is pretty much the offense. He is responsible for all, but 2 TDs through 4 games (those came on Saturday). Unless the OL makes significant strides, Arch is going to be a huge part of the run game. Perimeter blocking needs to improve to make the screen game viable. He is not getting a lot of easy yardage in the screen game like last year. I am not sure this team can survive games like OU and Arkansas, where the QB struggled. 

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20 minutes ago, Codaxx said:

Texas has had a lot of pure speed at WR, but not a lot of guys with excellent ball skills. Livingstone attacks the ball in the air. He will come down with 50/50 balls. He is like Mitchell in that aspect. Wingo is great athlete, but I have yet to see him show off the ball skills and win 50/50 balls. It is a bit frustrating, because he has all the physical ability to be a great at it. 

I think Arch needs to be more than decent for Texas to make the playoffs. He is pretty much the offense. He is responsible for all, but 2 TDs through 4 games (those came on Saturday). Unless the OL makes significant strides, Arch is going to be a huge part of the run game. Perimeter blocking needs to improve to make the screen game viable. He is not getting a lot of easy yardage in the screen game like last year. I am not sure this team can survive games like OU and Arkansas, where the QB struggled. 

I am not a full believer in OU. I don't think Arkansas is all that good. 

I believe Wisner and Baxter's return will be helpful. Baxter in particular. 

I believe the defense will continue to shut opposing offenses down, including the new Mateer driven, rules challenged Sooner offense. 

I do not agree that Manning needs to be more than decent. I believe he has the potential to be. Even being complete ass we had a very good opportunity to win the Ohio State game. They scored 1 TD on fourth down with Anthony Hill running through the hole without being touched. Then Carnell Tate made an insane grab for the touchdown catch after Guilbeau knocked the ball out. 

But it sure puts unnecessary pressure on the defense to be perfect if he can't hit the easy throws to keep making first downs and/or make big plays. 

I do not believe Wingo is being given many opportunities at 50/50 balls, so I don't see the same deficiency you're seeing. It doesn't mean he has those skills, either, though. I do think the freshman Lockett has those skills, so maybe we see more of him at some point, although for now it looks like McCutcheon is the top freshman on the depth chart. 

But for the receivers to matter Manning has to play adequately. We saw a flash in the 2nd quarter versus San Jose State and then the game against Sam Houston. We'll see what it looks like versus Florida.

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6 minutes ago, SL Xpress said:

I am not a full believer in OU. I don't think Arkansas is all that good. 

I believe Wisner and Baxter's return will be helpful. Baxter in particular. 

I believe the defense will continue to shut opposing offenses down, including the new Mateer driven, rules challenged Sooner offense. 

I do not agree that Manning needs to be more than decent. I believe he has the potential to be. Even being complete ass we had a very good opportunity to win the Ohio State game. They scored 1 TD on fourth down with Anthony Hill running through the hole without being touched. Then Carnell Tate made an insane grab for the touchdown catch after Guilbeau knocked the ball out. 

But it sure puts unnecessary pressure on the defense to be perfect if he can't hit the easy throws to keep making first downs and/or make big plays. 

I do not believe Wingo is being given many opportunities at 50/50 balls, so I don't see the same deficiency you're seeing. It doesn't mean he has those skills, either, though. I do think the freshman Lockett has those skills, so maybe we see more of him at some point, although for now it looks like McCutcheon is the top freshman on the depth chart. 

But for the receivers to matter Manning has to play adequately. We saw a flash in the 2nd quarter versus San Jose State and then the game against Sam Houston. We'll see what it looks like versus Florida.

OU is not a juggernaut on offense, but they are still 5x better than last year on offense with Mateer. I think it is unreasonable to think the defense can repeat their performance in the Cotton Bowl this year. I hope they do. Ark can score pts. Green is a legit QB. He does tend to be a bit all or nothing. Ark defense is bad, but they were bad last year and the DC definitely got Sark last year. The difference is last year games like OU and A&M the running game got going. How the run game develops is going to set the floor for this team. I am obviously a lot more skeptical than you on the run game.  How Arch plays will set the ceiling. 

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5 minutes ago, Codaxx said:

OU is not a juggernaut on offense, but they are still 5x better than last year on offense with Mateer. I think it is unreasonable to think the defense can repeat their performance in the Cotton Bowl this year. I hope they do. Ark can score pts. Green is a legit QB. He does tend to be a bit all or nothing. Ark defense is bad, but they were bad last year and the DC definitely got Sark last year. The difference is last year games like OU and A&M the running game got going. How the run game develops is going to set the floor for this team. I am obviously a lot more skeptical than you on the run game.  How Arch plays will set the ceiling. 

OU didn't lose allt he time last year because their offense was ass. They lost because they didn't play defense and it just happened to be the case that they sucked on offense too. 

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I wrote this on the Gator thread but I am posting here as well due to game relevance. I doubt this will be a distraction at all:

1 minute ago, closetojumping said:

The rumor is that Lagway is seriously considering a redshirt. Doering acknowledged that as a concern on SEC radio this morning and that dude is in UF’s offices daily.  

The walking boot is apparently part of whatever negotiation is being attempted, or a threat regarding his interest in sticking around. 

 

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2 minutes ago, closetojumping said:

I wrote this on the Gator thread but I am posting here as well due to game relevance. I doubt this will be a distraction at all:

 

I mean if he gets even more injured then it would be pretty bad for his pro prospects whatever they may be. Florida should just move on though. 

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18 minutes ago, immamac said:

OU didn't lose allt he time last year because their offense was ass. They lost because they didn't play defense and it just happened to be the case that they sucked on offense too. 

17 of the 34 pts scored were off turnovers where Texas started in OU territory. Explosive runs were a huge factor in this one. I hope to see them again. That has been completely missing from the offense, I know they were 130th in the nation on explosive runs entering the SHSU. OL and defense won that game. My concern is that this OL cannot weather the storm this year, if the QB is struggling. 

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19 minutes ago, Codaxx said:

OU is not a juggernaut on offense, but they are still 5x better than last year on offense with Mateer. I think it is unreasonable to think the defense can repeat their performance in the Cotton Bowl this year. I hope they do. Ark can score pts. Green is a legit QB. He does tend to be a bit all or nothing. Ark defense is bad, but they were bad last year and the DC definitely got Sark last year. The difference is last year games like OU and A&M the running game got going. How the run game develops is going to set the floor for this team. I am obviously a lot more skeptical than you on the run game.  How Arch plays will set the ceiling. 

Sure, but for me the ceiling you're talking about is the national championship. I don't think Manning has to play at a national championship level for Texas to make the playoffs. Maybe not even win the SEC. He does need to play decent. He needs to be able to hit the open receivers. He needs to be able to throw well enough in the short game that Texas can keep ahead of the chains. 

Green is a legit QB. Pittman is a dead man walking. I do not believe Arkansas can take a hit in the mouth and get back up any more than Florida can. And Florida IMO has a lot more talent. Arkansas just doesn't look like all that great of a football team, to me. And they're in Austin. I'm sure the fan base will be sooooooooo fired up for this alleged "rival" we have coming into town. 

I believe the defense sets the floor for this team - not the running game - and the floor is extremely high. I feel confident this is a playoff bound team. Beyond that, yeah, Manning needs to play with confidence and hit the open receivers. Other pieces have to step up, too, but Manning doing his job will help all the other pieces as well. 

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12 minutes ago, SL Xpress said:

Sure, but for me the ceiling you're talking about is the national championship. I don't think Manning has to play at a national championship level for Texas to make the playoffs. Maybe not even win the SEC. He does need to play decent. He needs to be able to hit the open receivers. He needs to be able to throw well enough in the short game that Texas can keep ahead of the chains. 

Green is a legit QB. Pittman is a dead man walking. I do not believe Arkansas can take a hit in the mouth and get back up any more than Florida can. And Florida IMO has a lot more talent. Arkansas just doesn't look like all that great of a football team, to me. And they're in Austin. I'm sure the fan base will be sooooooooo fired up for this alleged "rival" we have coming into town. 

I believe the defense sets the floor for this team - not the running game - and the floor is extremely high. I feel confident this is a playoff bound team. Beyond that, yeah, Manning needs to play with confidence and hit the open receivers. Other pieces have to step up, too, but Manning doing his job will help all the other pieces as well. 

Texas is game is Napier's last stand. Either Florida rises up and plays to their talent or they end up quitting on him. Going to be a strange one. 

Ark is all Green and their DC. The DC is one of those guys that will change his defense week to week for the opponent. The results are high volatile, but that has always given Sark issues in the past, like last year. I cannot see Texas losing that game, but there is the concern Green plays really well and makes it interesting. 

Texas already has 1 loss and 4 ranked teams left on the schedule, so there is not a ton wiggle room for an off game. 

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