Sports
January 8, 2022
How Frisco Turned Itself Into Sports City USA
The Dallas exurb has built its tourism program around bringing big-time sporting events, like Saturday's FCS title game, to North Texas.
College Football
Sports
December 29, 2021
COVID Gave Texas A&M a Reason to Skip a Bowl the Aggies Didn’t Want to Play
Don't overlook the role of injuries, NFL draft opt-outs, and players leaving via transfer in the decision to withdraw from the Gator Bowl.
Sports
December 21, 2021
A Guide to All Sixteen Texas Bowl Games
From Baylor’s top-ten matchup in the Sugar Bowl to Texas Tech’s reunion with Mike Leach, here’s what college football fans need to know.
Sports
December 17, 2021
The “Other” Baylor Gears Up for a Shot at the National Championship
Head coach Pete Fredenburg runs the most dominant college football program in Texas at the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor.
Sports
December 15, 2021
Can Quinn Ewers Haul UT Football Out of the Gutter?
The quarterback transfer, originally from Southlake, has the talent, pedigree, and mullet to make the next few years special for Longhorn fans.
Sports
December 13, 2021
Dave Campbell Made Texas Football the Juggernaut It Is Today
The legendary sports journalist and founder of the indispensable magazine that bore his name died last week at the age of 96.
Sports
December 10, 2021
Can Eric Schmid Lead Sam Houston to Two FCS Championships in One Year?
Thanks to the pandemic-delayed 2020 season, the Bearkats and their star quarterback are 21–0 in 2021 and three games away from making history.
Sports
December 7, 2021
The Lone Star State College Football Report Card
Grading the season performances and outcomes for all twelve FBS programs in Texas. You already know who's getting an F.
Sports
December 6, 2021
A Masterpiece Season for Baylor Football and Coach Dave Aranda
After last year’s 2–7 campaign, the Big 12 champions are sitting pretty thanks to their coach’s low-key, high-character style.
Sports
December 3, 2021
The Hidden All-Texas Flavor in Tonight’s Conference USA Championship Game
Officially, UTSA faces Western Kentucky in Friday's title matchup. But the Hilltoppers' high-octane offense is fueled by transfers from Houston Baptist.
Sports
November 26, 2021
The First-Ever All-Texas College Football Playoff Matchup Is Here
Season got you down? (Not you, UTSA.) Why not spend Saturday watching the first-round FCS game between Stephen F. Austin and Incarnate Word?
Sports
November 23, 2021
Texas Longhorns Football Is in Free Fall, and It Still Hasn’t Hit Rock Bottom
Clumsy administrators. Meddling boosters. Blown double-digit leads. A six-game losing streak. And a home loss to lowly Kansas. What's next?
Sports
November 18, 2021
The Guy Who Asked Steve Sarkisian That Endless Question Explains Himself
Terry Middleton of ‘Horns Illustrated’ tried to be positive during Monday’s Longhorns press conference. He didn’t know he’d get dragged for it.
Sports
November 9, 2021
Can New Texas Tech Coach Joey McGuire Build a Winner in Lubbock?
The Red Raiders’ hire is beloved by former players at Baylor and Cedar Hill High School and is known as one of the top recruiters in Texas.
Sports
October 29, 2021
The 6–1 UTEP Miners Are the Surprise of the College Football Season
Fourth-year head coach Dana Dimel's team has won more games this season than it did over the previous three years combined.
Sports
October 19, 2021
“Negative Thoughts” and the Texas Longhorns’ Latest Unraveling
Head coach Steve Sarkisian diagnosed his team's weakness after Saturday's loss to Oklahoma State. Now he has to repair it.
Sports
October 11, 2021
Happy Birthday, Jimbo Fisher: Here’s a Win Over Alabama
The day the Texas A&M coach turned 56, his Aggies delivered the upset of the 2021 college football season.
Sports
October 8, 2021
Bijan Robinson Is Transcendent, but Can He Run Past Oklahoma?
The sophomore running back looks to carry UT to its first win over the Sooners since 2018 in Saturday's Red River Showdown.
Sports
September 27, 2021
Losing to Arkansas Was Texas A&M’s Reality Check
The Aggies had dreams of an undefeated season and a trip to the College Football Playoff, but life in the SEC ain’t all peaches and cream.
Sports
September 24, 2021
Tony Bradford Wants to Change Police Work—Right After He Stops UT’s Offense
The Texas Tech defensive lineman interned with the campus police during the pandemic and hopes to improve law enforcement from within.
Sports
September 14, 2021
Houston Should Have Been Invited to the Big 12 Decades Ago
The Cougars' move is great news for UH fans, but it shouldn't have required UT taking a sledgehammer to the conference to make it happen.
Sports
September 10, 2021
Meep! Meep! Jeff Traylor Has the UTSA Roadrunners on the Fast Track
The second-year head coach plans to turn UTSA into a Conference USA force, thanks to Texas’s deep reserve of football talent.
The Texanist
September 7, 2021
The Texanist: Now That the Longhorn-Aggie Rivalry Is Back, Can UT and A&M Alums Stay Friends?
Two Texas buddies stationed at an Air Force base in Qatar wonder if their bond can survive the SEC’s recent expansion.
Sports
September 3, 2021
Fifteen Questions About Texas College Football This Season
All twelve FBS teams in Texas play this week. Here’s what we’re wondering about, from UT and A&M to UT San Antonio and Texas State.
Sports
September 2, 2021
Texas A&M’s Jimbo Fisher Is Worth Every Penny of His Contract Extension
The coach has overseen the rise of Aggies football into a national powerhouse, and the rest of the university stands to benefit.
Sports
September 1, 2021
Texan Deuce Vaughn Is Kansas State’s Big 12 Wild Card
The sophomore running back from Round Rock talks explains how Texas high school football prepared him for a breakout freshman campaign.
Sports
August 25, 2021
David Klingler’s Thirty-Year Path From Heisman Candidate to Bible Scholar
The Houston Cougars quarterback broke NCAA records in the early nineties. Now he teaches the Old Testament at Dallas Theological Seminary.
Sports
August 19, 2021
Hullabaloo, Caneck! Caneck! The Year of the Aggies Is Upon Us
With a top-six preseason ranking and a spot in the conference UT wants to join, Texas A&M is the state’s dominant college football program.
Sports
August 17, 2021
Losing Our Religion: Texas’s College Football Identity Crisis
With UT headed to the SEC and the Big 12 on life support, the state stands to lose its century-old football culture.
Sports
July 31, 2021
The Texas Conference: A Plan to Save College Football in Our State
What if Baylor, Houston, TCU, and all the FBS schools in Texas besides UT and A&M came together to form their own conference?
Sports
July 30, 2021
UT Will Join the SEC; College Football in Texas Is in Chaos. Now What?
Tough luck, Big 12 loyalists and Southwest Conference hardliners. At least Texas and Texas A&M will play each other again.
Sports
July 22, 2021
Texas and Oklahoma Joining the SEC Would Kill the Big 12
The reported move would mean big bucks for the Longhorns and the Sooners, while leaving Baylor, Texas Tech, and TCU out in the cold.
Best Thing in Texas
May 18, 2021
Eat ’Em Up, Kats! Sam Houston Wins First Football Championship
The Bearkats are the state’s first FCS winner since the tournament began, and its first NCAA Division I champ since the University of Texas in 2005.
Sports
April 30, 2021
Texas’s Biggest College Football Game of the Season Is Sunday in Huntsville
The Sam Houston Bearkats are hosting the defending FCS champions from North Dakota State in the national quarterfinals.
Sports
April 29, 2021
A New Sports History Book Shows How Texas Athletes Have Always Fought for Equality
In ‘The Sports Revolution,’ Frank Guridy revisits the 1960s and ’70s, when Black, Latino, and female athletes pushed for change.
Sports
March 12, 2021
Believe It or Not, It’s Still College Football Season in Texas
FCS is the underdog division you should be following. Here's a handy guide.
Sports
February 3, 2021
Who Had the Better College Football Career, Sam Ehlinger or Kellen Mond?
The next time we’ll see the Longhorn and Aggie quarterbacks is at the NFL draft. How will fans remember them?
Sports
January 7, 2021
What Was the Point of UT Hiring Steve Sarkisian to Replace Head Football Coach Tom Herman?
Six questions to ponder about the Longhorns' coaching switcheroo, while we wait for Sarkisian to arrive in Austin.
Sports
January 4, 2021
The Old Mack’s Still Got It
Mack Brown's UNC Tar Heels fell to Texas A&M in the Orange Bowl, but the former UT coach's personal touch remains strong as ever.
Sports
December 30, 2020
The Best and Worst Things in Texas College Football This Season
From Tom Herman to Houston Baptist to the Rose Bowl in North Texas, here's everything that made the 2020 season surprising and ridiculous.
Sports
December 29, 2020
Can the Texas Longhorns Still Be a National Football Powerhouse?
The Longhorns' disappointing 6–3 season closes against Colorado in tonight's Alamo Bowl; but is the program's future any brighter?
Sports
December 18, 2020
Here’s How Texas A&M Can Make the College Football Playoff
Even if it doesn’t happen, Jimbo Fisher’s Aggies are back in the national conversation for the first time since Johnny Manziel’s Heisman.
Sports
December 11, 2020
If UT Gets a New Football Coach, We Have Ideas About Who it Might Be
From James Franklin and Matt Campbell to Urban Meyer to someone you may not have thought of, the season of coaching rumors is upon us.
Politics & Policy
September 15, 2020
Why in the World Are Texas Universities Playing Football in Front of Fans?
There's still a lot we don't know about the spread of COVID-19 on college campuses.
Sports
January 14, 2020
How the Aggies, Longhorns, and Bears Stacked Up This Season
LSU may have won the national championship, but we’d rather focus on arguing over which college football team was the best in Texas.
Sports
December 30, 2019
UTSA’s ‘Tracy Rule’ Is a Watershed College Football Moment
The university has implemented a measure that prohibits athletes who’ve committed sexual violence from playing sports there.
Sports
November 14, 2019
10 Questions About Baylor, the Best Team in Texas (For Now)
Are the college football powers that be underestimating the 9–0 Bears ahead of Saturday’s game against Oklahoma in Waco?
Sports
October 11, 2019
Why Oklahoma and Alabama Would Be Nothing Without Texas
Sure, they’ve had the better football teams in recent years. But we’re still the better state.
Sports
October 3, 2019
A Bandwagon Fan’s Guide to SMU Football
The Ponies are ranked for the first time since 1986. What you need to know about the hottest college team in Texas.
The National Podcast of Texas
October 1, 2019
Jackie Sherrill and Bonnie Bishop: Lessons From Football and the Music Business
On this week’s National Podcast of Texas, the former Texas A&M coach and his musician stepdaughter discuss winning and losing with dignity.