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WATCH: Fox Sports releases teaser trailer ahead of Texas taking on Ohio State in Week 1

2025-08-04T22:49:14-05:00

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It’s opening weekend’s most anticipated face-off

The Texas Longhorns will travel to Columbus in Week 1 to take on the Ohio State Buckeyes.

It’s college football’s most anticipated kickoff weekend showdown.

You can see the trailer for yourself below:

Moments make legends. Legends make history.

Witness the biggest season opener EVER

August 30th @TexasFootball meets @OhioStateFB in Columbus on FOX pic.twitter.com/KR6rL432wS
— FOX College Football (@CFBONFOX) August 2, 2025

Ohio State, the reigning College Football Playoff National Champions, knocked Texas out of the bracket in the semifinals last season before the Buckeyes beat Notre Dame to win it all.

However, both Texas and Ohio State will meet this year with new starting quarterbacks. For Texas, redshirt sophomore Arch Manning replaced former three-year starter Quinn Ewers, who was selected in the seventh round of last spring NFL Draft by the Miami Dolphins. For Ohio State... well, we’re not quite sure yet, as frontrunners redshirt sophomore Julian Sayin and junior Lincoln Kienholz compete to replace Will Howard, a former Kansas State starter before he joined OSU last year, and who went to the Pittsburgh Steelers in the sixth round.

Beyond the quarterbacks, Texas saw 11 additional players selected in the NFL Draft.

Ohio State saw 13 additional players hear their name called.

Texas LT Trevor Goosby lands on annual ‘Freaks List’

2025-08-04T22:37:23-05:00

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Goosby is the only Longhorn to make this year’s list

Every year just before the college football season’s kickoff, The Athletic’s Bruce Feldman releases his annual “Freaks List” — a roundup of the sport’s most insanely talented athletes.

From The Athletic:

“Once ranked as the 34th best offensive tackle prospect in the 2023 recruiting class, Goosby has proven to be a terrific evaluation. As a redshirt freshman last season, he started two games, one at left tackle and the other at right. PFF gave Goosby an 80.8 pass blocking grade for the season, which was higher than Cameron Williams, Texas’ starter at right tackle, although the freshman had a much smaller sample size.

At 6-7 1/3, 311 pounds, Goosby clocked a flying 10-yard sprint of 1.44 seconds, grading at an extremely high level in terms of his acceleration for an offensive lineman. His max speed of 20 mph this offseason was almost as impressive. He bench pressed 365 pounds and jumped the highest of any of the Longhorn O-linemen. His leaping ability and body control are also evident in this video of him doing a 360-dunk last spring.”

There’s even proof:

Texas LT Trevor Goosby is one of the more freakier athletes in CFB. 3️⃣6️⃣0️⃣ pic.twitter.com/R6ai3eyKpV
— Justin Wells (@justinwells2424) May 1, 2025

Goosby is debatably more talented than outgoing three-year starting left tackle Kelvin Banks, who the New Orleans Saints selected as the ninth overall pick in this year’s NFL Draft.

Either way, the Texas Longhorns look to return strong at offensive line in 2025.

Longhorns Daily News: Arch Manning, Colin Simmons, Anthony Hill among those included on Walter Camp Award preseason watch list

2025-08-04T20:50:23-05:00

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Plus: A question worth asking

The Walter Camp Football Foundation announced its annual preseason watch list earlier today. Included among the star-studded cast were three Texas Longhorns, including quarterback Arch Manning, defensive end Colin Simmons, and linebacker Anthony Hill.

3️⃣ Longhorns have been named to the Walter Camp Award watch list @ArchManning x @thegoatanthony1 x @ColinSimmons__ pic.twitter.com/SDBz1eoMFb
— Texas Football (@TexasFootball) August 4, 2025

WHAT THEY’RE SAYING ABOUT THE LONGHORNS

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Austin American-Statesman: Colin Simmons set to play more for Texas, Steve Sarkisian says

247Sports: With Andre Cojoe’s injury, Texas football will need to build offensive line depth in a hurry

247Sports: Texas football 2025 position preview series: Interior Defensive Line

247Sports: Chip Shots: Texas WR DeAndre Moore Jr. wants it all - SEC and national titles, records and Biletnikoff Award

Inside Texas: Super DJ Saves Field Day: Derrick Johnson’s new chapter

Inside Texas: Texas Asked for This: Life at No. 1

Inside Texas: Iron Sharpens Iron: Texas’ elite defense playing a key role in readying Brandon Baker RT1 job

Inside Texas: Arch Manning, Colin Simmons, Anthony Hill make the Walter Camp Award preseason watch list

Inside Texas: Why Texas Baseball’s future is brighter than ever

Inside Texas: Can Michael Taaffe be the Star for the Texas secondary?

ICYMI IN BURNT ORANGE NATION

Texas ranked No. 1 in the preseason Coaches Poll

What RT Andre Cojoe’s season-ending injury means for Texas

Right tackle remains a primary Texas position battle

DeAndre Moore describes the differences between Arch Manning and Quinn Ewers

Jaylon Guilbeau hoping to replicate Jahdae Barron’s successful transition from Star to CB

Texas Longhorns Fall Camp Roundtable: Right tackle battle, defensive line depth, and key position rankings ahead of Ohio State showdown

LT Trevor Goosby stepping into leadership role for Texas

RECRUITING ROUNDUP

247Sports: No. 9 ranked Anthony Thompson schedules six official visits

247Sports: Texas QB commit Dia Bell ‘has a chance to be the most battle-tested quarterback in the past five, ten years’

247Sports: The Stampede: 2026 prospects to know for Texas heading into fall

Inside Texas: Inside Scoop: Latest on handful of 2027 recruiting targets; Noah Roberts, Tre Moore, Grant Haviland

Inside Texas: Jake Kreul’s summer and fall visits show two sides of Texas football culture

SEC SHOWDOWN

Austin American-Statesman: Texas football’s Ethan Burke talks about A&M play, why he wants more

Good Bull Hunting: Texas A&M ranked No. 21 in preseason Coaches Poll

Rock M Nation: Eli Drinkwitz is trying to do what no Mizzou coach has done before

And The Valley Shook: 2025 LSU Football Position Preview: Wide Receivers

Red Cup Rebellion: What we know, kinda know, and don’t know: Preseason practice offense edition

Rocky Top Talk: Joey Halzle explains the lack of explosive passing plays last season

Roll ‘Bama Roll: Predicting the 2025 Alabama Football Season: Missouri Tigers uncertainty

A Sea Of Blue: Hardley Gilmore discusses return to Kentucky; Bush Hamdan has high hopes for sophomore receiver

WHAT WE’RE READING

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NEWS ACROSS LONGHORN NATION AND BEYOND

A question worth asking.

Will Texas and Ohio State be ranked 1-2 when the AP Poll comes out next week?

I think there is a strong chance, especially when you think about how the Longhorns travel to Columbus Week 1.

Very hard not to create a 1 vs 2 matchup.
— Nick Roby (@nickroby) August 5, 2025

What RT Andre Cojoe’s season-ending injury means for Texas

2025-08-04T15:46:45-05:00

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The Longhorns have suffered a significant blow to the team’s tackle depth.

On Monday, the news broke that the Texas Longhorns have suffered the program’s first significant injury of preseason camp with redshirt sophomore Andre Cojoe sustaining a season-ending knee injury, according to multiple reports.

Here’s what it means for the Longhorns and position coach Kyle Flood.

Brandon Baker is the starter

Cojoe’s injury ends one of the most important position battles for Texas in preseason camp and solidifies sophomore Brandon Baker as the starter. A strong technician who has earned praise from his teammates for his intelligence and work ethic, Baker has the pedigree to step in quickly as the replacement for Cam Williams.

At a position that Texas head coach Steve Sarkisian noted can have catastrophic consequences for mistakes, Baker didn’t have a lot of pass-blocking repetitions last year among his 65 snaps — only 14 — but excelled in that small sample size with an above-average grade of 80.2 as a pass blocker. In those 14 pass-blocking snaps, Baker did not give up any pressures.

Sarkisian also said he wants more nastiness out of the right tackle position, an indication that Baker still has room to grow as a run blocker, which wasn’t considered his strength in high school.

One key for Baker to show improvement over Williams? Avoiding penalties, especially false starts — Williams committed 16 penalties last season, the second-most in the country among offensive linemen. If Baker can minimize his false-start penalties, the Horns will spend less time working from behind the chains on offense.

This is a significant setback for Cojoe

Before the injury, Cojoe was projected as the first offensive tackle off the bench for the Longhorns. Now he’s facing a rehabilitation process that isn’t as simple for a 335-pounder as it is for a skill-position player with a timeline that could make it difficult for Cojoe to compete in the offensive tackle rotation by the start of next year’s preseason camp.

Combined with the lost reps that will go to a younger player like Nick Brooks, Cojoe’s future on the Forty Acres now looks much less clear than it did when camp started last week.

Increased pressure on Brooks and Jaydon Chatman

The lack of overall experience along the offensive line is reflected in the new competition to become the team tackle for the Longhorns — redshirt sophomore Jaydon Chatman has played 32 snaps in each of the last two seasons while the true freshman Brooks enrolled in January.

Chatman is now the team’s primary swing lineman after playing left tackle as a freshman and guard last season. When Texas was in a team period last Wednesday as camp opened, Chatman received some reps at left tackle.

Brooks had a summer setback when he was arrested and charged with a DWI, telling the police that he was taking recruits to a strip club. But on the field, he drew buzz for his physical stature as one of the two early enrollees along the offensive line with Jackson Christian.

“I think both those guys have progressed really well. They’ve both really gone at it from an understanding standpoint in a big way. I think for them, training camp now becomes the real test, because they were able to get kind of the offensive installs in the spring, and then go back through it in the summer for the second time, and now they’re going to get it for the third time. It’s a real opportunity for them to show us how far up the depth chart they can move in training camp,” Flood said last Tuesday.

Flood trains his tackles on the left side and the right side, so both Brooks and Chatman have some practice experience at both positions, a positive for the Longhorns moving forward.

Reports: Texas RT Andre Cojoe suffers season-ending knee injury

2025-08-04T14:33:32-05:00

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Brandon Baker is now the starter for the Longhorns as the team’s offensive line depth takes a hit.

The Texas Longhorns suffered their first significant injury of preseason camp with the breaking news on Monday that redshirt sophomore right tackle Andre Cojoe will miss the season after injuring his knee.

BREAKING: According to sources, Texas OL Andre Cojoe is OUT for the season with a knee injury pic.twitter.com/joOucseEKJ
— OnTexasFootball (@ontexasfootball) August 4, 2025

Anwar Richardson of Orangebloods confirmed the news from On Texas Football.

A 6’6, 335-pounder, Cojoe was competing with sophomore Brandon Baker for the starting right tackle job in one of the most important position battles during preseason camp for Texas.

With the Horns replacing four of five starters along the offensive line, experience is at a premium for position coach Kyle Flood, who always serves as the team’s offensive coordinator. But that experience is often in the form of development time rather than playing time with Cojoe entering his third season on the Forty Acres after playing 33 snaps between right tackle and left tackle last season.

Out of Mansfield Timberview in the 2023 recruiting class, Cojoe signed with Texas as a 16-year old, enrolling early just after his 17th birthday as a consensus three-star recruit ranked as the No. 823 player nationally and the No. 71 interior offensive lineman, according to the 247Sports Composite rankings.

Cojoe chose Texas over 11 other offers and after taking official visits to TCU and Vanderbilt and drew praise from the coaching staff in recent days for reshaping his body after losing 20 pounds since his true freshman season.

With Cojoe’s season-ending injury, Flood has to develop further depth along the line with freshman tackle Nick Brooks drawing positive buzz after enrolling early and redshirt sophomore Jaydon Chatman receiving some reps at left tackle in the portions of practice open to the media last Wednesday.

Chatman received 32 snaps at left tackle in 2023 before spending his 32 snaps in 2024 at the guard positions.

Right tackle remains a primary Texas position battle

2025-08-04T14:20:06-05:00

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Brandon Baker received the first-team reps for the Longhorns when practice opened last Wednesday.

AUSTIN, Texas — Although the Texas Longhorns are replacing four of five starters along the offensive line heading into the 2025 season, the only unresolved position battle in the trenches as preseason camp started last week is between sophomore Brandon Baker and redshirt sophomore Andre Cojoe.

“Definitely going to be a camp battle, for sure,” Texas offensive coordinator and offensive line coach Kyle Flood said last Tuesday.

Because the Longhorns didn’t hold an Orange-White game to cap spring practice this year, there isn’t as much public insight into the battle at right tackle as usual, but the portion of practice open to the media last Wednesday did feature Baker taking first-team reps, some critical perspective into the status of the competition.

“Baker, he’s a real technician — he’s really patient and he’s a really smooth player. I just continue to tell him, just keep working hard every day, just keep going into little things, because little things, really, they change you as a player,” junior left tackle Trevor Goosby said on Thursday.

Senior Jack end Ethan Burke also praised Baker’s fundamentals, a trait that combined with his intelligence and prototypical frame to help the Santa Ana (Calif.) Mater Dei prospect finish the 2024 cycle as a consensus five-star prospect ranked as the No. 2 offensive tackle, according to the 247Sports Composite rankings.

At 6’6 with a plus wingspan, Burke is difficult to deal with as a pass rusher, but he admitted that he’s often frustrated going against Baker, who can work his hand placement on Burke’s ribs to stymie the senior’s pass-rushing attempts by negating his length.

“It pisses me off sometimes, but he’s really good at it,” Burke said.

Like the departed Kelvin Banks, Baker combines his physical traits and intelligence with ideal work habits.

“Just a smart player and really hard worker, always here after getting extra work. He’s always in the weight room. I’ll say that after practice, he’s usually the only guy putting in extra work and getting extra recovery. So for him, that’s really helped bring his game to another level,” Burke said.

The fact that Cojoe has received less attention from the media during the early availabilities helps to handicap the position battle. A 6’6, 335-pounder from Mansfield Timberview, Cojoe has more experience, but is a similar age to Baker after enrolling early as a member of the 2023 recruiting class when he had just turned 17. Considered a consensus three-star prospect ranked as the No. 823 overall player and No. 71 interior offensive lineman, the expectations haven’t been as high for Cojoe based on his limited recruiting pedigree.

But Cojoe has matured physically and mentally, dropping 20 pounds while reshaping his body over the last several years.

“I think both those guys have changed their bodies, improved their skill sets, and we’ll figure out during training camp how that all plays out,” Flood said.

Texas head coach Steve Sarkisian compared playing right tackle to cornerback because mistakes are catastrophic — for cornerbacks, busted or insufficient coverage results in touchdowns, and for right tackles, poor pass sets result in sacks or sack fumbles.

“So I want to see a level of consistency out of those guys at right tackle,” Sarkisian said on Wednesday.

The staff is also trying to get more physical play out of Baker and Cojoe, an area that wasn’t particularly a strength for Baker in high school.

“For both those guys, what we’re pushing them to do is get out of their shell, get out of their comfort zone, play a little more nasty, if you want to be honest. And I think we saw that today, which was encouraging,” Sarkisian said.

Although Baker is the favorite to win the job, the certainty is that both right tackles will be forged in the crucible of facing off in practice against an elite group of edge defenders that includes Burke and sophomore rising star Colin Simmons, both backed by quality depth.

“I think one of the advantages we have is we’re going to play against a really talented edge group in training camp. I think these guys are going to get challenged on it on a day-to-day basis. I know it’s going to come fast, but right now we’re at the beginning of it, so both guys are going to go out and compete, and we’ll see how it plays out through training camp,” Flood said.

During the first practice, it played out with some feistiness between the right tackles and the edge defenders.

“Ethan Burke will do that to you, right? Colin will do that to you — they prod you a little bit,” Sarkisian said. “That might have been a little intentional because we want to see how they are going to respond when the real fire is going? Like I said, not in pads, but I thought they responded pretty well today.”

[8/4 2:22 p.m. Central update]: According to multiple reports, Cojoe is out for the season with a knee injury.

Texas ranked No. 1 in the preseason Coaches Poll

2025-08-04T11:26:07-05:00

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For the first time ever, the Longhorns open the season in the top spot in the coaches poll.

Unprecedented.

Despite the historic success of the Texas Longhorns as the fifth-winningest program in college football, including four national championships, the Longhorns have never started the season ranked No. 1 in the preseason Coaches Poll.

Until now.

In securing 28 first-place votes from the 67 panelists this year, Texas will open the 2025 season with the top ranking in the coaches poll for the first time, heightening the drama surrounding the season-opening matchup against the Ohio State Buckeyes in Columbus.

With 20 first-place votes, the Buckeyes are ranked No. 2, setting up another historic first — a No. 1 versus No. 2 matchup in the coaches poll to open the season.

Eight other SEC teams are ranked in the Top 25 with Georgia at No. 4, Alabama at No. 8, LSU at No. 9, South Carolina at No. 13, Ole Miss at No. 15, Florida at No. 17, Tennessee at No. 18, and Texas A&M at No. 21.

Of those teams, Texas will only face three — the Bulldogs in Athens, the Gators in Gainesville, and the Aggies in Austin.

DeAndre Moore describes the differences between Arch Manning and Quinn Ewers

2025-08-01T14:08:45-05:00

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“Oh, you know.”

Texas Longhorns junior wide receiver DeAndre Moore Jr. didn’t feel the need to elaborate on Thursday after explaining the difference between redshirt sophomore quarterback Arch Manning and departed starter Quinn Ewers.

“One had baby wheels and one had super wheels,” Moore said with a laugh.

DeAndre Moore on the differences between Quinn Ewers and Arch Manning pic.twitter.com/3YjoXFi5IB
— OnTexasFootball (@ontexasfootball) August 1, 2025

It’s not the only difference — Manning likes to flash his arm strength, too.

“Arch’s footballs come with a little bit more of a zip. Quinn’s were a little bit more of a pillow, a little bit of a cushion, he’ll kind of loft it in there. Arch is zipping that thing in there, getting it to you,” Moore said.

Manning has also developed a reputation as a more vocal leader than Ewers.

“It gives the rest of our team assurance as well,” Moore said of Manning’s confidence. “He’s our leader, and he’s going to be the guy to take the helmet and lead us into these games and these battles. So just seeing a guy like that, who’s not really sweating and sure of himself, it’s only gives me confidence to go out there and do what I need to do,” Moore said.