BIG 12

[Archsmith99]

Texas is coming into the 2026-27 season as the 3 time defending Big 12 champs. With losing 11 key starters this offseason, if they plan on a 4 peat a lot of young inexperienced players will have to step up. With the main core of the offense returning the only thing the coaches are worried about on offense is the oline. They'll have 3 new starters on the oline, two of them are freshmans, ones a RS the other is a true freshman. The defense is where Texas lost the most talent at. Their starting DE's, OLB's, FS and SS are all playing in the NFL now. SR J.Anderson and RS fr S.James replace All Americans D.Johnson and D.Rich at OLB. Replacing Montgomery and Wagner at DE are 2 soph's who have never played a down of college football. The coaches are exited for RS soph B.Hester and RS fr S.Hampton to finally see the field at FS and SS. Both were highly recruited coming out of HS and both have sat and learned behind All American J.Alexander and N.Bennett. (This is the cliffnote version, my longer version got deleted)

[Archsmith99]

Texas is going for their 5th straight Big 12 championship this year and is hoping to make it to the National championship game. Something that has escaped Texas the last 2 seasons with them being jumped after conference championship weekend each of last 2 yrs. 2 years ago a 13-1 Texas team watched a 2 loss Alabama team jump them and last season Texas watched 2 teams they beat during the regular season play in the NC game. Yates is back for his 3rd yr starting at QB. In just 2 season the Junior Qb has thrown for over 8,000 yards and 60 td's. Joining Yates in the backfield once again is Rb Smith. Smith is a 4yr starter has had 3 straight seasons with over a 1,000yds with averaging roughly only 15 carries a game. Texas lost the most on offense at WR with Cummings and Mckinley leaving for the NFL. Replacing those 2 are 2 rs JR who have a lot of playing in Davis and Moore. Davis has sure hands and is more quick then fast and Moore is the WR with the speed on the roster, but Moore has a problem with dropping the football. Something that got him benched as a true freshman. 3rd WR is true freshman Williams and the 4th WR, will be between true freshman Brewer and rs Soph Smith. The biggest receiving threat on the team is the 6 8' 279lb TE Bright. Bright is a freak, he's big and fast and caught 9 tds last season while being Yates 5th option. On the oline Texas only replaces 1 starter, the Center. Which could be a good thing or a bad thing. As last yr the oline gave up 40 sacks....again. Defense write up will be up later

[Archsmith99]

On defense Texas lost 6 starter with 3 being from the secondary. The big surprise on defense last year was the play of rs Soph DE McNeil. In his first yr starting McNeil had 11 sacks. Texas will have 2 new starters at DT in SR Brown and JR Evans. They will look to stop the running game and give the LB's room to make plays. Returning for his SR season is the Captain of defense, MLB Huffman. Huffman won the defensive player of the year and best LB awards last yr. New starting ROLB is SR Hines. Hines has elite speed for Lb but he sat behind Johnson for 2 yrs and narrowly missed out starting last yr. At CB Texas is replacing 2 shut down corners with Mitchell and Pettway both playing on Sunday now. Texas will look for Jean and McIntyre to become the next duo of shut down corners to play at Texas. Replacing Jean and McIntyre at nickel and dime cb are rs Soph Gutierrez and true freshman Petty. Hampton returns as the starting FS. Last yr Hampton won the Thorpe award. Starting at SS is Lamb. Lamb is replacing all american SS Hester, Hester left school early for the NFL as a rs Soph. Lamb moved to FS 2 years but now moves back to his original position SS.