As much spotlight as prolific offenses get in college football now, it’s worth remembering that the teams with the country’s two best defenses last season squared off in the 2011 National Title...

With the Big 12 approaching near collapse this time a year ago, the conference has not only rebounded, but is thriving. With the addition of Texas Christian University and West Virginia, the Big 12 has...

The Longhorns played three games before Alex Okafor recorded his first sack last year. They played six before Jackson Jeffcoat got his first one. Don’t expect them to wait this long this season....

Carrington Byndom isn’t like most great cornerbacks. He’s very soft-spoken, doesn’t talk a lot of smack on the field and calmly hands the ball to the referee after making a pick. But...

The Texas defense is trying to not get caught up in the hype. But it must be hard. The group led the Big 12 in rushing, passing and total defense last season. After losing just a few significant pieces,...

Last season Malcolm Brown stepped onto campus as a pupil under veteran running back Fozzy Whittaker. After Whittaker’s season-ending injury during Texas’ loss to Missouri, Brown and the rest...

Coming off of an impressive freshman season in 2012, sophomore right-handed pitcher John Curtiss will miss the entire 2013 season after undergoing Tommy John surgery on his right elbow. Curtiss likely...

Texas’ offense has quite a bit to prove in 2012. Last season the Longhorns averaged 28.1 points a game, the second worst total in the Mack Brown era. Texas featured three different starting quarterbacks,...

It was 237 long days between Texas’ Holiday Bowl win over Cal last December and the day, to no one’s surprise, when the Longhorns finally named David Ash their starting quarterback last week. “I...