#Steve Sarkisian

Georgia will chase a third consecutive national championship in 2023 as the favorite in the USA TODAY Sports way-too-early Top 25 for next season, ahead of the familiar run of teams that have come to dominate the Bowl Subdivision. The Bulldogs are followed by No. 2 Michigan, No. 3 Alabama, No. 4 Florida State and No. 5 Penn State. After an…

The Georgia Bulldogs are a college football dynasty. After a beatdown of #3 TCU, Kirby Smart's team has cemented their spot in college football lore. Now, the real challenge begins. Can Georgia become the first team since the Minnesota Golden Gophers from 1934-36 to win three straight college football national championships? We're about to find…

SAN ANTONIO, Texas - The question came not from a sympathetic partisan viewpoint, rather a neutral inquisitor. At an Alamo Bowl news conference, Michal Penix Jr. and Jaxson Kirkland, the University of Washington quarterback and his trusted offensive guard, were asked by a local media member with a noticeable drawl why they were 3-point underdogs…

One of the more entertaining games of the bowl season could be the matchup between Texas and Washington, teams that haven't played since they squared off in the 2001 Holiday Bowl. Washington (10-2) had an outstanding season under first-year coach Kalen DeBoer while the Longhorns (8-4) had a bit of a disappointing season number two under Steve…

It's the most wonderful time of the year, and there are 43 college football bowls to wager on. VSiN is here to help bettors sort through them all and find the value. Be sure to check out our College Football Bowl Betting Guide, our homepage for individual bowl previews and our running best bets file. This is the preview for the Valero Alamo…

PROVO, Utah - Before starting fall camp, the 1996 BYU football team met with head coach LaVell Edwards to lay out what they wanted for the season. From a tunnel entrance with smoke out of the Southeast corner of Cougar Stadium to winning a National Championship. Edwards' 1996 squad, his 25th team as the head coach at BYU, had lofty goals and…

The onslaught of 43 college football bowl games begins Friday with two you won't want to miss - the Hometown Lenders Bahamas Bowl and the Duluth Trading Cure Bowl. We're pretty confident neither of them will ever be confused with the Granddaddy played every year at Pasadena. Seven Pac-12 teams are participating this postseason - three each in games…

Baylor (6-6) kicks off this year's slate of Big 12 bowl games, as they battle Air Force (9-3) in the Fort Worth. Baylor's season was certainly one that had its ups and had its downs, with the downs coming later in the season on three consecutive losses. Still, the Bears can capitalize on some momentum going into the offseason if they can cap off…

The fourth quarter of the college football season has arrived and that means the games get bigger and the pressure ramps up higher than at any point of the campaign. As the season heads toward the final weeks, the urgency of the College Football Playoff and conference races cause teams to raise their level of play - or stumble close to the finish…

Following an important win at home over head coach Neal Brown and the West Virginia Mountaineers on the night of Oct. 1, head coach Steve Sarkisian and Texas football have more momentum heading into the Red River Rivalry game next weekend. Texas topped West Virginia on Oct. 1 to get the first win of Big 12 play this fall. This was a solid win for…

No. 1 Alabama and No. 3 Ohio State will go head-to-head on Monday night at Hard Rock Stadium in the College Football Playoff National Championship -- a game which has the potential to be one of the most intriguing matchups we've seen in the title game recent memory. The Crimson Tide ran roughshod through the SEC en route to the conference title,…

college football odds series for our Baylor Texas prediction and pick. The Baylor Bears had an eight-point lead over the TCU Horned Frogs late in the fourth quarter last week. The Bears have had a very difficult season, but they were about to salvage it with an upset of a bitter in-state rival which used to play Baylor when the two schools were in…

The 2022 college football season wrapped up the regular season on Saturday. There were five games this week, with Texas beating Baylor 38-27, West Virginia got by Oklahoma State 24-19, TCU crushed Iowa State 62-14, Texas Tech got by Oklahoma 51-48 in overtime, and Kansas State rolled Kansas 47-27. So now it's time for our Big 12 Power Rankings.…

The third edition of the College Football Playoff officially begins on Saturday in Atlanta, Ga., as Alabama takes on Washington in the Peach Bowl. The Crimson Tide are the defending national champs and have earned a trip to the CFB Playoff for the third consecutive year, while the Huskies are making their first appearance in the four-team…

College football's offseason is slowly winding down, but the appearance of conference title odds and win totals is a sign that the actual season isn't too far away. In early May, BetOnline.Ag did exactly that, releasing its odds to win each of the Power 5 conferences. There are plenty of places to find betting value from the odds, including…

Two kicks: one with nine seconds left, one with zeroes on the clock. Just one miss would've rewritten this year's predictable College Football Playoff picture; had both gone awry, the playoff race would've imploded into chaos just steps from the finish line of the regular season. No team in the Bowl Subdivision is more adept at winning close games…

The PAC-12 held much hope just one week ago. The conference had multiple teams with routes to reaching the College Football Playoff for the first time in six years. It had multiple teams that could still dream of winning the Pac-12's first national title since 2004. Now, USC is the conference's only hope. It is just as the Trojans envisioned…

Kansas Jayhawks (6-4) will play host to Texas Longhorns (6-4) during Week 12 of the college football season. The Longhorns were locked (pun intended) in a defensive battle with an undefeated TCU Horned Frogs team last Saturday but lost the war of attrition 17-10. The Texas offense was blanked in the first half after scoring 68 points combined in…

It took a pile of cash and perks for USC to lure Lincoln Riley to Los Angeles, and the first-year coach has proven worthy of superstar treatment. The Trojans are getting everything they paid for and more. To fully appreciate the good Riley has accomplished this season by lifting USC (9-1) into the College Football Playoff picture, it's imperative…

Week 12 of the college football season is here, and with just two regular season games left on the schedule, there's still plenty of work to do sorting out the conference title races and the eventual College Football Playoff picks. Aside from the SEC and ACC, the annual Championship Saturday slate is yet to be finalized and the final four of this…

The Texas Longhorns take on the Oklahoma State Cowboys. Check out our college football odds series for our Texas Oklahoma State prediction and pick. The Texas Longhorns are a mysterious team. Is this a team with a very high ceiling which is just about to roar into high gear and maximize its potential, or is this an inconsistent team with a gifted…

Every week offers another chapter in the novel that is the 2022 College Football season. Will Saturday be a page turner or one where we skip to the last page to hurry up and see how it ends? Here's the 5 surprising storylines I'll be following the closest, as we enter the second to last Saturday of the regular season. Plenty is on the line when 9-1…

The Texas Longhorns will travel to take on the Kansas State Wildcats in a Saturday night Big 12 college football matchup at Bill Snyder Family Stadium. With that said, it's a good time to check out our college football odds series, which includes a Texas-Kansas State prediction and pick, laid out below. Texas has gone 5-3 this season, with all…

The marquee matchup of Saturday's Week 11 slate goes down in Austin with TCU playing for their College Football Playoff lives. The Horned Frogs travel to face Texas on the road as more than a touchdown underdog. TCU has made their mark by coming back in the second half of games this season, will the game script open up valuable bets in the prop…

This season I'll be breaking down a few of college football's biggest games each week and giving out at least one bet I like from each matchup. Let's take a look at this week's College Game Day matchup between TCU and Texas. TCU vs Texas Spread, current line: The numbers in this matchup point to Texas, but since the Longhorns have choked away some…

No. 4 TCU will be looking to keep its College Football Playoff hopes alive when the Horned Frogs visit in-state rival Texas this week in a massive Big 12 showdown. Despite the undefeated 9-0 record the Horned Frogs are still a touchdown underdog on the road. This is a potential Big 12 title game preview. At 6-0 in the Big 12, TCU has a two-game…

The First (Annual?) Gary Patterson Bowl goes down in Austin. Two questions will define No. 4 TCU at No. 18 Texas, one far more important than the other. First, who will be more satisfied in victory: TCU, moving to 10-0 with a team comprised of largely the same pieces of the 2021 Patterson-led team that went 5-7 with a win over Gary Patterson, or…

There is no time like the present to talk about the upcoming football season. A College GameDay announcement here, a TV time there. As we stare into the doldrums of the offseason chock full of high-minded rhetoric about the future of the NCAA and all the hand-wringing about NIL you can stand, it can be hard to remember that this is about actual…

The two top teams in the Big 12 will clash on Saturday, November 12th as the perfect TCU Horned Frogs will be looking to continue their tremendous campaign against the Texas Longhorns. This game will kick-off at 7:30 PM ET at Darrell K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium in Austin and can be seen on ABC. Read on for the TCU vs Texas prediction. TCU has…

No. 4 TCU takes on No. 18 Texas in a prime-time Big 12 matchup at Darrell K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium in Austin, Texas, on Saturday. Game time is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. ET, and it will be televised on ABC. TCU (9-0) continues to search for respect despite an unblemished record and the high-level play of quarterback Max Duggan. First-year coach…

Spring football is in full swing, with Alabama's annual A-Day game scheduled this Saturday. And across the country, FCS teams are in their truncated midseason and other conferences are gearing up for Spring football as well. So, of course it makes perfect sense, before Fall enrollees even step foot on campuses, to speculate about who shall hoist…

With Week Zero of the college football season fast approaching, it's worth analyzing the current odds to win this season's Big 12 Championship, via BetOnline. The reigning champion Baylor Bears miraculously ended Oklahoma's six-year (2015-20) spree of dominance. The Bears are aiming to make it two consecutive conference championships, but their…

Texas football got a significant win this weekend to get the road monkey off its back in a big way. Head coach Steve Sarkisian and No. 24 ranked Texas was able to down head coach Chris Klieman and the No. 13 ranked Kansas State Wildcats on the road at Bill Snyder Family Stadium in Manhattan on Nov. 5. Following the 34-27 win on the road over Kansas…

12:41 PM, November 2, 2022John David Yonke College football fans have had Week 10 circled for a while, as there are a few marquee matchups that have fans and bettors alike licking their chops. College football odds are up for Week 10 at BetMGM, with plenty of offerings on the board. Here are some potential parlays with odds, payouts, and…

The Iowa State Cyclones and No. 22 Texas Longhorns look like teams heading in opposite directions. Once again ranked in both major polls, the Longhorns are riding high after thrashing the Oklahoma Sooners 49-0 in the Red River Rivalry game last week. While Texas ran its record in Big 12 play to 2-1, ISU dropped its third consecutive conference…

Between these two stingy defenses and an Iowa State offense that really struggles to put up points, our college football betting picks expect a low-scoring affair in Austin this weekend - especially in the first 30 minutes. The No. 22 Texas Longhorns will host one of the top defenses in college football when the Iowa State Cyclones visit Austin on…

A big win for Texas football and head coach Steve Sarkisian on Oct. 8 saw this team absolutely dismantle the Oklahoma Sooners in the Red River Rivalry game. Texas shutout the Sooners at the Cotton Bowl in Dallas on Oct. 8, winning by the final score of 49-0. Texas managed the largest margin of victory for the program in the history of the Red River…

You can never have a good Texas vs. Oklahoma game without lots of intrigue and storylines. Saturday morning's Red River Showdown matchup at the Cotton Bowl in Dallas is no exception. Consider: Both the Longhorns and Sooners have quarterback issues; Texas' Quinn Ewers hasn't played since the end of the first quarter against Alabama on Sept. 10 and…

The Oklahoma Sooners will try to end a rare two-game skid when they take on the rival Texas Longhorns on Saturday in the 2022 Red River Showdown at the Cotton Bowl in Dallas. Picked to finish second in the Big 12 in the preseason, the Sooners (3-2, 0-2) are coming off back-to-back losses to Kansas State and TCU in which they allowed a combined 96…

For the first time since 1998, both Texas and Oklahoma will meet in the Red River Shootout as unranked teams in college football's Week 6 action on Saturday. That year marked the first for Mack Brown as Texas head coach. Now another first-year coach steps into the rivalry as Brent Venables leads Oklahoma into the Cotton Bowl against the…

The Red River Showdown at the Cotton Bowl in Dallas is annually billed as the marquee event on the Big 12 football schedule. This year's edition has lost some of its luster as both the Texas Longhorns (3-2 overall, 1-1 Big 12) and Oklahoma Sooners (3-2 overall, 0-2 Big 12) enter the game unranked. The Sooners, in particular, are reeling after…

On Saturday, the Texas Longhorns and Oklahoma Sooners will meet for the 118th time overall. For the first time in a decade, it is the Burnt Orange that is considered the favorite according to betting odds. The Red River Rivalry or Red River Shootout, whichever you prefer to call it, is one of the best rivalry games in all of college football. It…

For the first time since 1998, the Texas Longhorns and the Oklahoma Sooners will enter the Cotton Bowl for the Red River Showdown at 11 a.m. Central on Saturday with neither team ranked and the biggest matchup in the Big 12 happening in Lawrence as the No. 19 Kansas Jayhawks face off against the No. 17 TCU Horned Frogs. Strange times. But with the…

The Longhorns are currently favored by 7 points, in a game that features a total of 66.5. As of Tuesday afternoon, the betting action has been completely one-sided, and there's an excellent chance this line moves even further towards Texas. 60% of the spread wagers are currently backing the Longhorns, as is 80% of the spread handle. Kickoff is…

The Red River Showdown is one of the best rivalries in sports, and recent results make it obvious as to why Texas and Oklahoma fans -- as well as college football fans all over the country -- love when this annual game rolls in. The last two games between Oklahoma and Texas resulted in a combined 201 points, including a 55-48 OU win last season and…

The game that Texas football fans wait all year for has almost arrived. Texas will face the Oklahoma Sooners and new head coach Brent Venables in the annual Red River Rivalry game at the Cotton Bowl in Dallas this coming weekend. Head coach Steve Sarkisian and the Longhorns look to be in a good spot heading into Red River this season. Texas has…

Photo by Ronald Cortes/Getty Images. Pictured: Head coach Steve Sarkisian of the Texas Longhorns College football's Week 6 slate isn't anchored by a single high-profile matchup, especially compared to the huge games that are looming in Week 7. Sure, we do get No. 8 Tennessee vs. No. 25 LSU and No. 17 TCU vs. No. 19 Kansas and the Red River Rivalry,…

Two of the all-time stories football programs in college football history meet for the 10th time ever this weekend as the top-ranked team in the sport travels to the Lonestar state. Alabama is fresh off a thumping of Utah State and Texas beat up ULM last week, so both teams are off to a good start. It's been a while since they last played, dating…

A pair of high-powered offensive units will collide Friday when the Washington Huskies meet the UCLA Bruins a battle of unbeaten Pac-12 clubs that will have a major impact on the conference title chase. Kickoff is set for 10:30 p.m. ET from the Rose Bowl. The new-look Huskies (4-0) are averaging 44 points per game behind coach Kalen DeBoer's…

Praise be to the college football gods who provided me with enough undefeated, resurgent programs to continue to populate this list. Of the seven teams to have curried Michael J. Fox's favor, three of them have two losses. Miami, Florida, and Texas all lost again Saturday, and only one of them to a ranked opponent. The Hurricanes didn't only lose…