Texas Longhorns 2014 football schedule

Below is the Texas Longhorns 2014 football schedule:

8/30/2014 vs North Texas

9/6/2014 vs BYU

9/13/2014 vs UCLA

9/27/2014 vs Kansas

10/4/2014 vs Baylor

10/11/2014 vs Oklahoma

10/18/2014 vs Iowa State

10/25/2014 vs Kansas State

11/1/2014 vs Texas Tech

11/8/2014 vs West Virginia

11/15/2014 vs Oklahoma State

11/27/2014 vs TCU

Don't forget to check back next week to see another schedule revealed! And keep checking back for more details and ticket options!

Longhorns Football Hype

The saying goes Everything is Bigger in Texas, and it could not hold more true for hype around Texas Longhorns football and Longhorns Football.

The Texas Longhorns Football team is one of the most competitive teams in the NCAA Division-I Big 12 Conference. The Longhorns Football program dates back to 1893 and since its start it has been a powerhouse for college football.

The Texas Longhorns Football Roster has had 50 consensus All-American players and 2 Heisman Trophy winners. As a team the Texas Longhorns have won 4 National Championship Titles and 32 Conference Championship Titles. The University of Texas at Austin is the home of the Texas Longhorns football team, the Darrell K.

Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium is where all of the Texas Longhorns games take place. With a capacity of 100,119, DKR-Texas Memorial Stadium is currently the 7th largest non-racing stadium in the world and the 4th largest on-campus stadium in the United States.

Big 12 Leading Scorer to Enter NBA Draft

The Big 12's leading scorer this season, Texas guard J'Covan Brown, will bypass his senior season and enter the NBA Draft.

Brown averaged 20.1 points per game and led the Longhorns to a 20-14 record, capped by a 65-59 second-round loss to Cincinnati in the NCAA tournament.

Texas Longhorns Basketball NCAA Tournament

The Texas Longhorns loss to Baylor was hard to take, I'll admit it. Baylor seemed to be on the fast track to self destruction in the first half, and Texas was rolling. I was quite happy about the lead Texas had at the half, more than happy - confident.

In the second half, Baylor stepped up and started taking care of the ball, switched from zone defense to man-to-man, and became far more aggressive on both ends of the court. And then... you know what happened.

With two losses this week, Texas now sits with the rest of the teams on the NCAA tournament bubble, close but so far away from the dance. Texas does get several more opportunities to improve their resume, but one wrong step and its game over for the Longhorns.

For months now, Texas has declined opportunities to turn itself into an NCAA tournament team. Despite their best efforts to watch the tournament from their couches, the Longhorns might still have a couple chances anyway.

Monday's loss to Baylor, in which they wasted a 12-point second-half lead and once again victimized themselves with poor late-game decision-making and lapses of judgment, left the Longhorns 17-11 overall and 7-8 in the Big 12. A few years ago, a record like that would have had Texas laughed out of the committee room for the tournament selection.

This year, though, it seems the Longhorns have a shot. What they don't have is a quality win over a highly rated opponent. If they beat both Texas Tech and Oklahoma to clinch a .500 record in the Big 12, the Longhorns have two more chance to make an impression on the committee.

The Longhorns cap off their regular season at Kansas, and their Big 12 tournament opener could be a rematch with Baylor. A Longhorns victory over either of those two nationally ranked foes wouldn't guarantee an invitation, but it sure would help.

Longhorns In Position to Dance

After spending most of this Big 12 season playing catch-up, the Longhorns are finally in position to make the NCAA tournament. Now the Longhorns are being charged with protecting that position.

With the tournament's expansion to 68 teams, the Longhorns' current credentials are deceivingly sold. Their record clearly isn't spectacular as they sit at 16-9, 6-6 in the Big 12, but their come-from-behind victory over Kansas State set the Longhorns in at No. 45 in the Ratings Percentage Index.

Assuming that a 9-9 Big 12 record will allow the Longhorns into the tournament, the Longhorns simply need to win three of their final six games. Four of those six games come against the teams in the bottom four of the conference. The Longhorns' final stretch begins this week with games at Oklahoma on Tuesday and Oklahoma State on Saturday.

Texas Iowa, Who Will Win?

Texas is coming off its best win in recent memory, a 29-point revenge victory at UCLA while Iowa has done its fair share of thrilling wins as well, with three come-from-behind wins. Both teams are unbeaten through three games.

The Cyclones beat Texas last season at Austin, but the Longhorn team of this year looks greatly improved from last year's. The Longhorns seem to pack plenty of punch this year and appear to be on their way to the powerhouse of old.

I believe that trend will continue. I favor Texas in the upcoming game, though Iowa will keep pace and make it a good show for Big 12 fans.

Texas 34 @ Iowa State 27

Hate it? Love it? What are your thoughts?

Texas and Iowa State Hook up in Undefeated Big 12 Game

The 17th ranked Texas Longhorns and the Iowa State Cyclones will be going head to head this weekend as two undefeated Big 12 Conference teams.

Texas is 3-0 on the young season, having beaten up Rice, BYU and UCLA. This marks the fifth straight year and ninth time in the 14 years under coach Mack Brown that the Longhorns have opened the season with at least three consecutive wins. Not only is that impressive, but after Texas' 2010 campaign in which it went 5-7 and won only two of its eight conference games.

The Cyclones have returned 16 starters from last year's team that went 5-7 overall and 3-5 in the Big 12, but sit perfect so far as well. The Cyclones are 3-0 for the first time since 2005! Their last 4-0 start was back in 2000.

Who do you have for the game? Both teams are coming off of disappointing 2010 seasons, but have started this season off great. Let me know what you think!

Oklahoma and Texas and the Pac 12

It's official that Texas A&M is looking to leave the Big 12. That means that this could be the end of the Big 12. We're looking at a 9 team conference and honestly, who can this conference add? They could add SMU, but that won't do anything to boost the conferences cache. There have been reports that Texas and Oklahoma have been looking into joining the Pac 12. I can definitely see this happening and won't be surprised if we're watching one of the last years of the Big 12 this year.

Texas A&M Could Move to SEC

There have been reports that Texas A&M is very close to switching conferences and playing in the SEC as soon as the 2012-2013 season.

This would have a huge impact on the Big 12. The Big 12 conference could take one of two courses of action. They could either dissolve the conference all together or they could try to add different schools to the conference. This is extremely interesting and I think the conference would look to add some schools before dissolving all together. TCU would have been a really good candidate, but they are moving to the Big East. Maybe SMU could be asked to join the Big 12, but that wouldn't be a huge coup for the conference. They might try to pry away Arkansas from the SEC as well.

USA Today College Football Preseason Top 25

Here's the preseason top 25 for college football. Take a look at all the Big 12 teams on there! We've got three teams in the top 10, but most importantly, we've got the number one team in the land. It would be huge for the conference if they could win the National Championship. However this does make me miss Nebraska a little bit since they are pretty highly rated.

1.	Oklahoma (42)
2.	Alabama (13)
3.	Oregon (2)
4.	LSU (2)
5.	Florida State
6.	Stanford
7.	Boise State
8.	Oklahoma State
9.	Texas A&M
10.	Wisconsin
11.	Nebraska
12.	South Carolina
13.	Virginia Tech
14.	Arkansas
15.	TCU
16.	Ohio State
17.	Michigan State
18.	Notre Dame
19.	Auburn
20.	Mississippi State
21.	Missouri
22.	Georgia
23.	Florida
24.	Texas
25.	Penn State

2012 Big 12 Football Recruiting Class Rankings

ESPN recently updated their recruiting rankings for the class of 2012. Five Big 12 teams were ranked in the top 25. Not only are there five teams in the top 25, but there are 3 in the top 11 and all five are in the top 17.

1. Texas - Texas has the best recruiting class in the country so far. Pretty typical of Texas, they are right in the middle of a recruiting hot bed and kids grow up wanting to be Longhorns.

8. Texas A&M - This one comes as a bit of a shocker to me. Mike Sherman, the former coach of the Green Bay Packers, really has a program started at A&M.

11. Oklahoma - No surprises here. Oklahoma consistently gets a ton of talent to come to Norman.

13. Texas Tech - Another shocker. Also in a recruiting hot bed but it seems like Tommy Tubberville is really starting to get the handle of Texas recruiting.

17. Missouri - they have done a really good job keeping their in state talent home and they also advanced into Texas territory this year.

Texas Longhorn Network Broadcasting Two Games??

The Texas Longhorn network won't be airing just Longhorn games, they are looking to broadcast another Big 12 game as well. Here's what Stephanie Druley, the vice president of the network had to say about it.

"We are thrilled to be able to bring not one but two games to Longhorn fans this year," said Druley. "The Texas-Rice game will be an exciting first for the network and demonstrate how we will provide the most comprehensive coverage of Texas football that fans have ever experienced."

Watch this thing morph into something bigger than the Big Ten Network. It's scary for University of Texas opponents because that school is going to have tons, and tons of money to build up their athletic programs from this network.

Big 12 Football Star Watch: Garrett Gilbert

Remember in the 2009 National Championship Game between the Texas Longhorns and the Alabama Crimson Tide when Colt McCoy got injured? I do and I really wanted to turn the game off at that point, but I didn't. In came Garrett Gilbert, who had not played since week two and was asked to complete 3 quarters of a national championship game. Gilbert performed admirably by completing 16-40 passes for two touchdowns and four interceptions. Okay so they aren't great numbers but he almost led the Horns on a late comeback.

Fast forward to 2010. He is awarded the starting quarterback job in the Spring. He leads to the team to a 5-7 record.

Gilbert, your junior season is make or break for you. If he falters, he is in extreme danger of losing his job to Case McCoy, Colt's younger brother. I think he has a pretty good season though, the talent around him is simply too much.

Mack Brown Closes Spring Practice To Media

Mack Brown is not happy with the Texas Longhorns 5-7 record last season. He is taking stephs to make sure that doesn't happen again. With Spring Practice starting Thursday, Mack Brown has decided to close the practices to the media. Brown has closed most of his team practices for several years, but said he decided to close them all this year because he doesn't want any distractions for himself, his players and his staff. It was the first losing season at Texas in 13 years. Mack Brown is keeping all of spring drills closed to the public until the annual team scrimmage on April 3.

Possible 1st Rounders from the Big 12

Mel Kiper released his latest NFL Mock Draft the other day. He had four players from the Big 12 in the first round Mock Draft.

Arizona Cardinals, No. 5: Von Miller, OLB, Texas A&M
Washington Redskins, No. 10: Blaine Gabbert, QB, Missouri
Jacksonville Jaguars, No. 16: Aldon Smith, OLB, Missouri
Baltimore Ravens, No. 26: Aaron Williams, CB, Texas

We will have to see how accurate Mr. Kiper's projections turn out to be.

National Signing Day

Today is National Signing Day for college football. High school football prospects across the country will sign national letters of intent with their favorite colleges today, many in front of cameras or friends. Check out the Big 12 Teams and see if your favorite team got those big time recruits that might push them to the top of the Big 12 next season. Here's something to note: 21 of the 22 high school players who committed to sign with the Longhorns on Wednesday attend a Texas high school. The recruiting class of Texas includes seven players ranked in the ESPNU 150. That is very remarkable.

Texas Coach Gets Florida Gators Job

Will Muschamp has been announced the new Head Coach for the Florida Gators. He replaces Urban Meyer, who unexpectedly announced his resignation for the 2nd straight year. Only this time he did not announce his return the next day. Will Muschamp was the defensive coordinator for the Texas Longhorns and had already been announced the next coach of the Longhorns after Mack Brown was finished at Texas. Congratulations at Florida for Will Muschamp!

Big 12 Game of the Week

Texas at #5 Nebraska

Nebraska is flying high right now and reminding football fans that they want to get back to the top of college football. Texas is coming off two consecutive losses, to UCLA and Oklahoma at home. They will be hungry for a victory and optimistic about pulling off the upset.

Prediction: Feeling the Huskers in this one, Nebraska 30, Texas 23

Big 12 Week Two Game Results

Baylor 34, Buffalo 6

California 52, Colorado 7

Iowa 35, Iowa State 7

Kansas 28, Georgia Tech 25

Kansas State 48, Missouri State 24

Missouri 50, McNeese State 6

Nebraska 38, Idaho 17

Oklahoma 47, Florida State 17

Oklahoma State 41, Troy 38

Texas 34, Wyoming 7

Texas A&M 48, Louisiana Tech 16

Texas Tech 52, New Mexico 17

Big 12 Week One Game Results

Here are the results of the first week of games in the Big 12:

34 Baylor, 3 Sam Houston State

24 Colorado, 3 Colorado State

27 Iowa State, 10 Northern Illinois

6 North Dakota State, 3 Kansas

31 Kansas State, 22 UCLA

23 Missouri, 13 Illinois

49 Nebraska, 10 Western Kentucky
31 Oklahoma, 24 Utah State

65 Oklahoma State, 17 Washington State

34 Texas, 17 Rice

48 Texas A&M, 7 Stephen F. Austin

35 Texas Tech, 27 Southern Methodist