1. Who is the opponent? The Texas Longhorns (1-0, 0-0) travel to Lubbock to face Texas Tech (1-0, 0-0) in each team’s first conference game. Texas played UTEP in Austin and won by a lot, while Texas Tech hosted Houston Baptist and won by a little.
2. What is the time and date of game? The game is on Saturday, September 26th at 2:30 p.m.
3. How do I watch or stream this game? The good news is that this game will be on over the air, on FOX, and can be found FOX Sports Go if you need to find online means to watch the game.
4. What’s the opening line? Via our friends at OddsShark, the line opened up at Texas -15.5 to -17. The books were a bit unsettled about how this game would go and now it seems as if it has settled in at -16.5 or -17, which means that some money was likely coming in on Texas.
5. Scattershooting, wondering what ever happened to . . . Jayne Mansfield. Mansfield was born as Vera Jayne Palmer in 1933, spent part of her childhood in New Jersey, her mother and father, separated and remarried other folks, with her mother moving to Dallas. Mansfield then married at 17, had a child, went to SMU, but then moved to Austin and went to UT where she worked as a nude art model as well as entering and winning a handful of pageants. Mansfield then, as you probably know, appeared in Playboy and was a film and television star . . . Want one more Jayne Mansfield note? Law & Order: Special Victim Unit actress Mariska Hargitay is a child of Mansfield . . . UT head coach Tom Herman hired two new coordinators in the offseason, former Oklahoma State and Ohio State OC Mike Yurcich and former Rutgers head coach and Ohio State DC Chris Ash . . . Herb Hand is the offensive line coach and was at Auburn with Gus Malzahn before arriving at Texas and had moved around at West Virginia, Tulsa, and Vanderbilt, where Hand has a terrific reputation for developing lines . . . Yurcich’s offense is plenty of RPO’s and vertical passing with a powerful running game and plenty of tempo. This sort of sounds like every other offense, but Yurcich loves different formations, particularly in the backfield . . . Ash’s defense is a 4-2-5 with a quarters coverage in the secondary as the base, I believe it is quite a bit of bracket coverage . . . Texas Tech fans had nightmares of the Sterns brothers from the Houston Baptist game and older brother Caden Sterns is the starting free safety for the Longhorns. Thankfully, Caden does not play offense . . . Cade Brewer is the starting tight end, younger brother to Michael Brewer and Charlie Brewer, Michael the former Texas Tech quarterback and Charlie the current Baylor quarterback . . . Texas demolished UTEP a week or so ago, 59-3, limiting UTEP to 233 total yards, while piling up nearly 700 yards of total offense and averaging over 9 yards a play . . .