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In a news conference we asked coach Sarkisian, “Bijan cuts like Barry Sanders, explodes like Ricky Williams, stiff arms like Derrick Henry. Are these fair comparisons and what is it like being Bijan’s coach?”

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When Sarkisian, and all the players, speak of Bijan Robinson they all say, he’s a better human than football player. Before every game, Robinson calls his family and, as a family, prays together.

All the players, coaches, and staff at Texas are amazing, so it would be hard to stand out and be even more amazing. #5 Bijan Robinson is a light that brings great joy, calm, peace, and love everywhere he goes.

tells the story that Sarkisian tried to recruit him when he was in high school to play for Alabama, but had to be honest with Sarkisian that his heart was in Texas.

We will never forget the time after a game up in the players room where the news conference was held with Sarkisian and a few players. After Robinson was ﬁnished talking with the press he left the room and waited around for another 15 minutes out by the stairs that lead out of the complex and stopped us, shook our hand and said, “Thank you for being here. I appreciate you.”

Immediately after the end of last season, Sarkisian left the college sports world speechless. Before the season ended, Sarkisian said that Texas would likely add up to 38 new players, and possibly more from the transfer portal.

Texas announced they were moving to the Southeastern Conference (SEC) and Sarkisian commented early that in order to compete at that level, Texas would need BIG OnHUMANS.Dec.12, 2021, the ﬁrst day studentathletes were allowed to sign their National

his word when he said during his ﬁrst news conference upon arriving at Texas that he was committed to working with Texas high school coaches and selecting players from Texas.

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Letters of Intent, Texas secured 28 signees. The biggest was Quinn Ewers. Actually the biggest was Cameron Williams Jr., a 6’7” 364 lbs. offensive lineman from Duncanville, InTexas.total,

Prepared for an oustanding season

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Quinn Ewers coming to Texas was massive. It silenced everyone questioning Sarkisian and his staff’s ability to lead Texas into the future.

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Sarkisian commented that during some of his off time he was going to travel and go catch a baseball game. That game was 511 miles East of DKR.

Sarkisian becomes the King. All of the sudden, it was as if last season was truly in the rearview mirror, even though every news conference someone brings up the past.

Ewers, being the highest rated QB out of high school since Vince Young, suggested that there was either something most fans and pundits did not understand or know about Sarkisian, his staff, and the Texas ESPNprogram.ranked

Texas with the top 5th class in CFB, signing 32 players, one five-star, 21 four-star, and five three-star players, and Sarkisian was not finished.

Sarkisian, in a news conference during this period made a comment nobody picked up on that would end up being monumental, actually earth shattering for Texas.

Then Sarkisian, at the beginning of summer, travels to Los Angeles and spends time with Super Bowl winning head coach Sean McVay. Sarkisian’s take away was how forward-thinking offensive coach McVay interacted with players and his relationship with the team and his ability to understand all aspects of his team.

This caused a complete 180 in everyone’s attitude toward Sarkisian and Texas.

Spring training started and once again the battle of quarterbacks begins. Fans are left wondering who will be the starting quarterback come fall? Hudson Card or Quinn Ewers? As the team, one-third new, was working hard and summer practice was about to end, Sarkisian announced that Quinn Ewers would be Texas QB1 without fanfare, no news conference, and if you had not been there when the announcement was made, you would not believe it was true.

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Sarkisian then brings on coach Brennan Marion as the wide receiver coach and coach Tashard Choice as the running backs coach, both with NFL experience. Players have the highest praises for these two coaches and are appreciative for what they have taught them already and the energy they

This meeting with McVay reminded Sarkisian to stay the course and to be true to himself and his style of leadership.

It was announced in such a chill fashion that everyone

defense needed help last season, so Sarkisian had Pete Kwiatkowski meet with Dan Quinn who has a known superpower: Defense. Quinn was the head coach for the Atlanta Falcons and now is the defensive coordinator for the Dallas Cowboys.

What happened was, after a summer practice, several players sat down with the media. Afterward, the Texas sports information director nonchalantly walks in and announces from the podium that Sarkisian is making Quinn Ewers the starting quarterback.

Back to the baseball game Sarkisian attended. That game, plus other relationship building events would land a Texas commit that has never before happened. Sarkisian becomes the King of CFB.

Texas’ coach staff led by example. They evaluated what went right, what went wrong, and then learned from that, got coached themselves, and made adjustments.

So we have QB1, we know with a of certainty that Bijan Robinson and Roschon Johnson will be running backs, Xavier will be wide receiver, Quinn Ewers will be and DeMarvion O vershown be the linebacker. Moro Ojomo and Keondre Coburn will be on the Texas.

There is a fferent atmosphere in Texas this year. Same expectations, but a different attitude and mindset from

and looked around in disbelief like he was messing with us. Someone shouts, “What did you just say?”

So we have QB1, we know with a degree of certainty that Bijan Robinson and Roschon Johnson will be running backs, Xavier Worthy will be wide receiver, Quinn Ewers will be quarterback, and likely DeMarvion Overshown will be the linebacker. Moro Ojomo and Keondre Coburn will be on the defensive line for Texas.

We believe Texas has a chance of Alabama. When do, football will be turned down and Texas center the Universe.

We asked if Sarkisian had any comments to go with the announcement and were met “No!”

Sarkisian has announced that Quinn Ewers will be the starting for the Texas Longhorns. The media kept packing away their gear while up to see if this was a or for real.

ere is a di year. Same high-level expectations, but a ferent attitude and mindset from players.

We asked if Sarkisian had any comments to go along with the announcement and were met with, “No!”

In the most epic no fanfare way, Texas announced the starting quarterback. Everyone in the room immediately went to their phones to text out and tweet the news and the news quickly went national.

stopped and looked around in disbelief like he was messing with us. Someone shouts, “What did you just say?”

We believe Texas has a legitimate chance of beating Alabama. When they do, college football will be turned upside down and Texas will become the center of the Universe.

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In the most epic no fanfare way, Texas announced the starting quarterback. Ever yone in the room went to their to text out and tweet the news and the news went national.

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1515 S. HT. WT.# NAME PO 6-5 36456 Cameron Williams OL 6-4 33967 Malik Agbo OL 6-6 33370 Christian Jones OL 6-5 32476 Hayden Conner OL 6-3 32352 DJ Campbell OL 6-4 32078 Kelvin Banks Jr. OL 6-3 31465 Jake Majors OL 6-4 3147 1 Logan Parr OL 6-6 31175 Junior Angilau OL 6-4 30762 Connor Robertson OL 6-5 30669 Andrej Karic OL 6-4 30672 Neto Umeozulu OL 6-5 30554 Cole Hutson OL 6-2 30263 Rick McBroom OL 6-4 29661 Sawyer Goram-Welch OL 6-5 29559 Will Pliska OL 6-4 29279 Max Merril OL 6-5 27564 Michael Balis OL 6-3 27466 Chad Wolf OL Offensive Linemen 19 Offensive Linemen - 5,900 LBS. In the ﬁrst game of the 2022 season against ULM, nine Texas Longhorns made their ﬁrst start of their career. Offensive line: Kelvin Banks Jr., Hayden Connect, Cole Hutson, Tight end: Gunnar Helm, Ja’Tavion Sanders, Defensive backs: Jaylon Guilbeau, Ryan Watts, EDGE Barryn Sorrell, and Quarterback Quinn Ewers.

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Freshman offensive lineman Cole Hutson was a two-time team captain at his high school in Frisco, Texas, ranked No 11 nationally among offensive guards by ESPN. Hutson is one of coach Sarkisian’s Big Human’s standing six feet ﬁve inches weighing in at 305 lbs., being called upon to protect the quarterback.

Majoring in Business, during his ﬁrst semester at The University of Texas, Hutson was named Student of the Week for showing excellence on the ﬁeld and in the classroom.

Named ESPN 2022 Preseason True Freshman All-American Team

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to Jones answer questions during interviews,playerhe is conﬁdent, wide-eyed, happy and always has a smile. This season Jones is roommates with Junior Angilau and the two will often harmonize to the song “Don’t Stop Believing” while Angilau plays one of his favorite music instruments: guitar, ukulele or piano.

Jones is a four-time member of the Big 12 Commissioner’s Honor

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Christian Jones

Fifth-year offensive lineman Christian Jones from Cypress, Texas is a towering presence standing six feet six inches and weighing 333 lbs. Part of the Sarkisian’s Big Human line, Jones has played in 37 games, earned Academic All-Big 12 First Team honors in 2021, named to the Academic All-Big 12 Second Team in 2020, and is a member of the UT’s 2021-2022 Student-Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC).

Junior wide receiver from Cuero, Texas is one of the coolest people you may ever meet. While we only know him from press conferences and player media, Whittington is an ol’ soul.

Whittington has graduated, is working on a second degree and is a weapon on offense when called upon. His career at Texas he played in 12 games, caught 12 passes for 519 yards, scored three touchdowns and averages 12.7 yards per carry.

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On Whittington’s Instagram page (@yaton_ excluse) you will ﬁnd the words, “Servant of Christ” along with his email, and his Cameo link for fans who wish to engage with him.

Last season Whittington suffered a seasonending injury. During his time away from the ﬁeld he refocused and got hyper serious about his body and nutrition, also limiting ice cream to only one day a week.

Soft-spoken, conﬁdent, yet seemingly shy, Whittington is a student of football and a leader. Coach Sarkisian has said you will ﬁnd him in the front row with a notebook and pen to take notes during team meetings.

Whittington is a key contributor to the Texas offense. He can catch, block, make big play and he leads by example.

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Alabama head coach Nick Saban looks on as Whittington runs with the ball.

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With 523 student-athletes and 400 staff members that make up Texas Athletics, teams won four National Championships plus 10 NCAA top-two ﬁnishes. National Championships were won by Texas Rowing, Men’s Golf, Women’s Tennis, and Men’s Indoor Track and Field. The four National titles tied a school record for most team titles in a single season set in 1985-96.

Texas Athletics Wins LEARFIELD Directors Cup

The University of Texas Athletic Director

Chris Del Conte accepted, for the second year in a row, the 2021-22 Division I LEARFIELD Directors’ Cup for having the best college athletics program in the country.

The way it works is points are given based on how a team does. You get 100 points for National Titles, 90 points for runner-up, and so on. Texas scored 1,449.50 points this

Interestingly, National Champions Texas Rowing, Women’s Tennis were also back-toback winners. Men’s Indoor Track & Field won their ﬁrst National Championship, and Men’s Golf their fourth. Texas had six NCAA runner-up teams: Women’s Indoor Track & Field, Women’s Swimming & Diving, Men’s Swimming &

Diving, Softball, Men’s Outdoor Track & Field and Women’s Outdoor Track & Field.

wins joins Stanford who held the back-to-back title for 25 years and now are the only two programs to win backto-back. This year Stanford scored 1,352.25 points. In Big 12 Conference standing, with Texas 1st, Oklahoma came in 10th with 968.50 points overall.

Other teams that ranked in the top-10 NCAA standings were Volleyball (tied for 5th), Women’s Basketball (tied for 5th), Baseball (tied for 7th), Men’s Tennis (tied for 9th).

22 season. This was 197.5 points more than last year when Texas won the Directors’ Cup with 1,252 Texas’points.back-to-back

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The University of Louisiana Monroe (ULM) will travel 436 miles West to Austin, Texas to play the Texas Longhorns at DKR for the ﬁrst game of the 2022 season. This will be the second time ULM has played Texas. The ﬁrst time was in 2009 and Texas won 59-20. Terry Bowden became the head coach in 2021 and the team had a 4-8 record in 2021 after going 0-10 in COVID year 2020.

Head Coach: Terry Bowden

This game will be a good warm up for Texas to identify areas they need to improve when they play a pivotal game against Alabama the following week.

University of Louisiana Monroe Warhawks

One of the Warhawks most valuable weapons according to Bowden is placekicker Calum Sutherland who transferred from Oklahoma and can make 50-yard ﬁeld goals with ice in his veins.

on 179 attempts for 1,311 yards and nine touchdowns in 2021.

Sophomore Chandler Rogers was named the starting quarterback for their season opener against Texas after winning the spot over Jiya Wright. Rogers, a Mansﬁeld, Texas native, is 6’ 190 lbs., completed 112 passes

a more veteran and proven team across all areas: of fense, defense, special teams. Challenges for Texas will be to stop Bryce Young, 2021 Heisman Trophy winner and ranked the No. 1 player in CFB. Young was recruited and trained by Sarkisian along with AJ Milwee, however that may give Texas more insight than just watching tape on Young.

Alabama Crimson Tide Head Coach: Nick Saban

For Texas, this game is pivotal and will reveal their strengths and weaknesses going up against the No. 1 ranked Alabama and answer a big question on everyone’s mind. Can Texas compete in SEC?

Alabama has the No. 7 ranked defense led by #31 Will ANderson Jr., the 2021 Bronko Nagurski Trophy winner for the nation’s top defensive player.

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This may be the most anticipated game of college football this season. Sarkisian goes head-to-head with his former boss and mentor. Sarkisian recruited and coached Heisman Trophy winner Bryce Young. Former NFL coach Bill O’Brien is the OC/ QB for Alabama. Texas is going to the SEC and this game will provide insights.

Most people likely believe Alabama will beat Texas. Horns Illustrated believes Texas has a legitimate chance of winning against Alabama, although Texas will have a battle royale and many things have to go perfectly for AlabamaTexas.is

Bill O’Brien, who took over for Sarkisian as of fensive coordinator and QB coach, will be calling plays for Alabama. O’Brian previously was the head coach of the NFL Texans and was in the New England Patriots organization from 2007-2011 coaching Tom Brady.

Alabama may be Texas’ toughest opponent this season.

The history against Alabama goes back to the ﬁrst game 1902 where Texas won 10-0. The teams have played nine times, last in 2010 when Alabama won 37-21 (their only win against Texas). Texas leads the overall series 7-1-1.

Nick Saban said during media days, “ This is my 21st season in the SEC. A lot of great memories, a lot of relationships that have been built and memories that are going to be cherished for a long, long time.”

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Senior Frank Harris will be a challenge for Texas. Last year he passed for 3,177 yards, 27 touchdowns, rushed for 1,479 yards and 15 touchdowns. Harris was named to the preseason watch list for the Manning Award which also has Bryce Young Jr. of Alabama and Spencer Sanders, Sr. of Oklahoma State.

Senior center Ahoﬁtu Maka from Honolulu Hawaii provides massive protection for Harris. He is 6’3” 325 lbs and has allowed just one sack and three hits on the quarterback in 471 passblocking snaps.

Head coach Jeff Taylor has been with UTSA since 2020, won the C-USA Championship in 2021 and also coached at Texas from 2015-2016, SMU, and then Arkansas before becoming the head coach at UTSA.

The University of Texas at San Antonio Roadrunners

This will be the ﬁrst time Texas and UTSA have competed.

UTSA averaged 36.9 points per game last year with 183.5 yards rushing and 255.5 yards passing per game.

The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) last year had their most successful season winning 12 games and lossing only two games to North Texas then San Diego State in the Frisco Bowl.

Head Coach: Jeff Traylor

Texas Tech Red Raiders

First time head coach Joey McGuire will host Texas in Lubbock to kickof f the Big 12 games for the season. Texas and Texas Tech ﬁrst played in 1928 and Texas holds a 54-17 overall series lead.

“You’ve got to score points to win football games, and that’s what we’re going to try to do in west Texas.”

- Joey McGuire

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Head Coach: Joey McGuire

Senior Tyler Shough was named the starting quarterback by McGuire and was put on the preseason watch list for the Johnny Unitas Golden Arm Award. Last year Shough was hurt during the Texas game. The 6’5” 230 lbs Shough played three years at the University of Oregon before transferring to Texas Tech.

On defense, super-senior Adrian Frye, Houston, a Texas native, is back from injury and is expected to be a key contributor this season. Frye has a career 42 games played, 63 solo tackles, 24 assisted tackles, and seven interceptions. Frye is also a punt returner.

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Coach Brown is also looking for Lee Kpogba to make big contributions for the defense. Kpogba transferred from East Mississippi

West Virginia Mountaineers

On defense, Jered Bartlett plays Bandit which is more of a pass defender or Jack. Think of Joseph Ossai when he played at Texas. Bartlett had an outstanding 2021 season playing in 13 games and recording 15 solo tackles, 16 assists, four sacks.

Head Coach: Neal Brown

Last season West Virginia topped Texas 31-23 at Morgantown to go up on the overall series 6-5. This year the battle is at DKR.

from coach Brown during media day,

Fourth year head coach Neil Brown will face a dif ferent Texas team this year.

For Texas, the Mountaineers have their set of weapons. Soccer player turned football kicker Casey Legg had an outstanding 2021 season kicking 19 ﬁeld goals and 51 points-af ter for 92 points on the season.

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The one thing that we were intentional about trying to improve defensively is we’ve been a primary zone coverage team over the last two years, and we’ve had success. It’s been successful for us.”

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#8 Xavier Worthy

Set UT freshman record in three categories. Set single-game Texas freshman records with 14 receptions, 261 receiving yards and twice scored three touchdowns.

2021 Big 12 Offensive Freshman of the Year, Earl Campbell Tyler Rose Award, and True Freshman All-American selection by ESPN, started in 12 games, had 62 receptions for 981 yards and 12 touchdowns.

During preseason, coach Sarkisian commented that Worthy, along with Jordan Whittington, were two of the leaders on the team and you can count on them sitting in the front row of meetings with their notepad and pencils at the ready.

The last time Texas beat Oklahoma was at the Red River Showdown in 2018 when then freshman Cameron Dicker kicked his now famous 40 yard ﬁeld goal with nine seconds left in the game that earned him the name “Dicker The Kicker” which he immediately

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Oklahoma Sooners Head Coach: Brent Venables

Oklahoma was ranked No 9 in the preseason AP Poll which may surprise some with all the turnover and changes at OU. Dillon Gabriel is the new starting quarterback after Caleb

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is in a similar situation as Texas with new players coming to the team (33 scholarship players and 15 walk-ons) with 50% of their roster are freshmen and 50% juniors and seniors, 13 are transfers.

for both Texas and Oklahoma since last season. Oklahoma has a new head coach Brent Venables who played linebacker for Kansas State then coached there after college, then to Oklahoma, Clemson, and back to Oklahoma to replace Lincoln Riley who is now at USC.

Players with the most experience are ﬁfthyear defensive lineman Jeffery Johnson with 44 career starts, Mililani Hawaii native Dillion Gagriel, 35 career starts, ﬁfth-year defensive back Trey Morrison, 44 career starts, senior offensive lineman Kyle Ergenbright, 34 career starts, and UC transfer offensive linemen from The Woodlands, Texas McKade Mettauer, 28 career starts.

While Texas is 14-5 in the overall series with Iowa State that dates back to 1979, look for Texas to break the three game winning streak of the Cyclones when they come to DKR in October.

Head coach Matt Campell will have 18 seniors returning this season. Standouts Xavier Hutchinson and O’Rien Vance will lead the offense and defense. Wide receiver Hutchinson was a First Team AllBig 12 in 2020, 2021, and has 1,758 yards while at Iowa State. Linebacker Vance has recorded 194 tackles (93 solo) in his career with 10 total sacks.

Iowa State Cyclones

Head Coach: Matt Campbell

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Iowa State created a special video that tells the story of O’Rien Vance who they consider the Soul of the Cyclones.

Senior quarterback Spencer Sanders, a Denton, Texas native, was named to the Johnny Unitas Golden Arm Award Watch List during preseason. A ﬁrst team All-Big 12 quarterback who led the conference in total offense and total offense per game last season. Sanders has 6,911 career passing yards, 2,839 in 2021 with 20 touchdowns and 668 yards rushing.

Coach Gundy on winning in the Big 12, “One, you stay healthy. As always, we have to get good quarterback play. Good quarterback play is we need to give him some protection and we need to rush the ball successfully.”

Oklahoma State Cowboys

Collin Oliver was named the unanimous

Head Coach: Mike Gundy

Oklahoma State and Texas played their ﬁrst game in 1916 and Texas leads the overall series 26-10. This season the game is played in Stillwater, OK.

Big 12 Defensive Freshman of the Year by coaches. Oliver recorded 29 tackles (20 solo), 15.5 for a loss of 84 yards, and 11.5 sacks.

Kansas State Wildcats

The Longhorns and Wildcats go way back to 1913 and have played 22 times since. Texas leads the overall series 12-10.

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Back Deuce Vaughn is from Round Rock, Texas which is just minutes from UT. Vaughn has 2,046 rushing yards, 902 receiving yards, and 31 touchdowns. In 2021 Vaughn was awarded First Team AllAmerican by Pro Football Focus, Associated Press, and Sporting News, plus a 2021 Earl Campbell Tyler Rose Award Finalist.

Kansas State will try to break Texas’ ﬁve game winning streak against them as they host this year’s battle in Manhattan, Kansas.

Defensive end Anudike-Uzomah is 6’4” and weighs 244 lbs with 54 tackles (39 solo) and 12 sacks and six forced fumbles. Going into 2022 he is ranked second nationally in forced fumbles. He was voted a 2021 Big 12 co-Defensive Lineman of the Year by

Head Coach: Kris Klieman

#22 Deuce Vaughn and #91 Felix AnudikeUzomah are standout players. AnudikeUzomah a Preseason Big 12 Defensive Player of the Year.

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Max Duggan was named to the Johnny Unitas Golden Arm Award watch list in preseason, ranks ﬁfth in TCU history for passing with 5,920 yards, and had a completion percentage

Texas Christian University (TCU) Head Coach: Sonny Dykes

of 63.9% completion last season. In 2020, Duggan was a Earl Campbell Tyler Rose Award Honorable Mention Player of the Week when TCU played Texas.

Senior defensive linemen Dylan Hortan stands 6’4”, weighs 275 lbs. and had 52 tackles last season (34 solo), four sacks with 37 yards lost. He will cause trouble for the Texas offensive line.

This will be Sonny Dykes ﬁrst season as TCU head coach taking over for Gary Patterson who spent 23 years at TCU, 21 years as head coach. Patterson is now at Texas as a Special assistant to Steve SeniorSarkisian.quarterback

The first time Texas played TCU was in 1897. That same year a UFO landed in Aurora, Texas, the word computer was first used, first electrical bicycle invented, TCU named their first yearbook The Horned Frog. and the two teams have played 92 times since. Texas leads the overall series 64-27-1.

Lance Leipold is in his second year at Kansas, was a quarterback at WisconsinWhitewater where he spent most of his coaching career afterwards with a stay in Nebraska and Buffalo before coming to Kansas and leading the team to their ﬁrst win in 22 months over South Dakota.

the patent for the ﬁrst electric vacuum cleaner was given, Theodore Roosevelt became the 26th President, and Walt Disney was born.

In the 20 games Texas and Kansas have played since 1901, Kansas has won 4 games. The ﬁrst game was in 1901 (12-0) and the last game won was in 2021 in overtime (57In56).1901

Kansas Jayhawks

Head Coach: Lance Leipold

Starting quarterback Jalon Daniels, a Lawndale, Ca native (just 7 miles from where Texas QB Maalik Murphy grew up), was named AllState Sugar Bowl Manning Award Star of the Week in 2021, has 1,578 career passing yards, eight passing touchdowns, 103 rushing yards, and six rushing touchdowns.

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Senior safety Kenny Logan Jr. led the Big 12 with 113 tackles (79 solo) in 2021, the most by a safety in the NCAA. Against Texas last year, Logan Jr. had 11 solo tackles.

Ben Sims will be a major factor for Baylor’s offense. Sims had 31 receptions last season, 361 receiving yards, and has 9 career receiving touchdowns.

Head coach Dave Aranda is in his third year as head coach has a 14-9 record at Baylor and won the Big 12 Championships. Aranda was named the AP Big 12 Coach of the Year and George Munger Award in

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Baylor Bears

This game is the ﬁnal game of the regular season and will be played in Austin, Texas at DKR.

Head Coach: Dave Aranda

Another long history of football competition between Texas and Baylor going back to 1901 like Kansas. The two teams have played 111 games. Baylor won last year at Baylor and Texas holds the overall series lead 79-28-4.

quarterback from Shreveport, La, Blake Shapen was named the starter after spring practice. Shapen threw for 596 yards last season, completed 23 of 28 passes and had ﬁve touchdowns th-year senior 6’5” 258 lbs tight end

Brennan MarionBrennan

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Maybe one day a movie will be made to tell this man’s amazing love story for football and life, let us hope it does. We can only imagine what players experience being coached by such a man.

would ﬁnd his way to the Miami Dolphins where he signed as a free agent. He found his calling, coaching football.

Brennan Marion’s journey to the Texas Longhorns as the passing coordinator and wide receivers coach was not a straight nor easy path. The story begins with Marion’s big brother who saw something special in his ability to play football with the older kids. Marion tells the story of his big brother convincing his mom to let him enroll in a football program whereas they say, the rest is history.

Everyone on the planet has a story, however there are a few stories so amazing that a movie should be made about their life.

“Winners keep going,” Marion said in an interview. There was nothing going to stop Marion from succeeding in football and life. In college he slept in the school’s press box because he had no place to live. Marion

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write a 10 page story on coach Marion, however hearing directly from him is way better. Click To Watch full interveiw.

DeAnthony Thompson, my background is sports media, and radio broadcasting. I started working for Mortenson broadcasting company in 2013, the same year I started work for sportsgram network. On the radio side of things I produced a local urban news show on the A.M dial, 970AM, and at our sister station 1630AM I ran switch board for OU football/ coaches show, Texas A&M basketball/coaches show. Through sportsgram network I was introduced to ﬁlming Division 3 Soccer, baseball, swimming. As well as ﬁlming Highland Park basketball and baseball. Other schools include prosper baseball, and rockwall heath softball, as well as North forney football in 2020.

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On social media we stumbled across the most amazing person making a massive dent in the universe. His name is DeAnthony Thompson and he hosts a podcast and YouTube channel called hoodscout @ DeAnthony91 and he scored a one-on-one interview with coach Marion in the off

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