#Tom Herman

Texas quarterback Casey Thompson faces the team that his father led when he and the No. 21 Texas Longhorns square off against the No. 6 Oklahoma Sooners in the 2021 Red River Showdown on Saturday in the Cotton Bowl in Dallas. Thompson, a junior from Newcastle, Okla., is the son of Charles Thompson, who played quarterback for the Sooners in 1987…

Lieutenant James Gordon said it of Batman in "The Dark Knight": "He's the hero Gotham deserves, but not the one it needs right now." Oklahomans should feel the opposite of Lincoln Riley. He's not the hero Soonerville deserves, but he's the one it needs right now. Soonerville and all of college football. Riley, the villain of all villains in OU…

The Territorial Cup is one of the oldest rivalries in college football, the trophy dating back to the late 1800s. Yet for Arizona, that cup hasn't spent more than a few hours in Tucson the last six years. ASU (3-8, 2-6 Pac-12) has won the last five meetings with Arizona (4-7, 3-5) but this could be the year the Wildcats end the drought. The Sun…

Forty names, games, teams and minutiae making news in college football, where fans were introduced to the varied animal life- green dogs and rats -in Tuscaloosa: A new, attractive FBS coaching option materialized Monday when the Carolina Panthers fired Matt Rhule. He was a bad fit in the NFL-or at least a bad fit with a franchise that never gave…

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…

college football odds series for our Texas Texas Tech prediction and pick. The Texas Longhorns had lost to Alabama by one point, a crushing result on a day when they largely outplayed Nick Saban's SEC colossus. Texas outplayed Alabama in the trenches and was bitterly unlucky that quarterback Quinn Ewers got hurt early in the game. Had Texas been…

Sticking close to'Bama as three-touchdown underdogs created a lot of buzz that once-powerful Texas may indeed be on the rise again. AUSTIN, Texas - Texas coach Steve Sarkisian couldn't beat Nick Saban last week. That didn't stop him from borrowing some wisdom from the old master. "To quote my old boss, 'We gotta be careful of the rat poison of…

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Texas coach Steve Sarkisian couldn't beat Nick Saban last week. That didn't stop him from borrowing some wisdom from the old master. "To quote my old boss, 'We gotta be careful of the rat poison of people telling us how good we are," Sarkisian said. That may be easier said than done for a Texas (1-1) program being lauded…

On Saturday, head coach Jeff Traylor and the UTSA Roadrunners will make the trip up I-35 to face the No. 21 Texas Longhorns at Darrell K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium for the first time. Kickoff is at 7 p.m. Central on Longhorn Network. Traylor is a former Texas assistant who spent two years on the Forty Acres under Charlie Strong, becoming a fan…

While I got ya, here are nine things and one crazy prediction: Some bark from Sark. Texas' Steve Sarkisian is getting feistier by the minute, which is fine. He was a little Nick Sabanish on Monday when he was asked which quarterback was taking first-team snaps and he answered, "That's for me." It's the first time he hasn't been more candid about…