Texas CFB Recap: Texas A&M continues to impress as other Texas teams take bye weeks

TEXAS, USA — Well, that’s five weeks of the college football season in the books, and wait? What?

Florida State jokes are back? No, not really. They are not what they were last season, but did you see the way the fans rushed the field Friday night at UVA after the Cavaliers pulled the upset? That was one of the best I’d ever seen! They were ready ‘THE’ instant the game was in the books!

So let’s do this. Let’s check the happs and roll around the Great State Of Texas. (Full disclosure. The week was full of bye weeks, but I’ll try to write as creatively and as fun as possible.)

The Longhorns were on a bye week this week.

And just what the doctor ordered to open SEC play? On the road at Florida? The Gators have been completely underwhelming through their first four at (1-3).

But then again, maybe the worst possible scenario? They get Texas in The Swamp, and wouldn’t that just an early October Super Bowl type win if they could bump the Longhorns?

Texas better not even remotely look ahead to their top ten showdown with Oklahoma in the week that follows. It has to be all about the Gators this week and nothing else. I’d suspect that Coach Sark will hammer that point home almost every hour on the hour this week in Austin

 The big story line here? Easy. What will Arch Manning look like? Is he ready for this? Opening conference play on the road at struggling Florida is much better than doing it at say, oh, I don’t know, Georgia? That’s not until mid-November, in Athens.

But they’ve got PLENTY to worry about before that.

Another in the win column for the Aggies as they handled Auburn. Seven sacks! Seven! That’s great for an SEC team, and even better against an SEC opponent.

That conference is about survive and advance as best you can, and that’s what they did with just enough offense and some stout fourth quarter defense.

Heck, I may have to retire my ‘no team is more overhyped to then under-deliver quite like Texas A&M football’. Nice job, fellas. Congrats.

They are 4-0 for the first time since 2016 (they started 6-0 that year). They next host Mississippi State and Florida the next two weeks before traveling to Arkansas. Another 6-0 start if not 7-0 looks entirely possible before back-to-back top 20 matchups at LSU and Missouri. 

t’s never easy doing bizz in the Southeastern Conference.

The Roadrunners were on a bye week this week.

September started terribly, and then September finished strong. They didn’t having a winning record for the first month of the season, but after starting 0-2, they finished 2-0 with wins over UIW and Colorado State to even their mark at .500 before October.

They may not love it, but they’ll take it. And that last time out in Fort Collins against the Rams was ‘meh’ at best offensively.

Robert Henry was GREAT again, but overall, just not quite good enough, and that’s where the passing game comes into the conversation.

It’s going to need to take steps before they open AAC play, and starting QB Owen McCown knows that. Is it just on him?

It’s not, it’s up to his WRs and TEs to be better too. They open American play on the road at Temple next weekend, and Head Coach Jeff Traylor emphasized TEMPLE as his name has circulated the social media speculative world with the fresh opening at Oklahoma State University.

The Bobcats were also on a bye week this week.

Jeff Traylor doesn’t have the only cell phone right now, perhaps he’s getting phone calls and text messages.

G.J. Kinne’s digits might be even hotter. He’s been on the coaching fast track in my opinion (and that’s not against the football law or a bad thing), and it wouldn’t shock me if he winds up being the next HC in Stillwater, Oklahoma.

The Bobcats travel to Jonesboro, Arkansas to face Arkansas State this week, a game in which they will be hefty favorites. This is kinda cool for that program. They went through many years of never being ‘hefty favorites’, but Coach Kinne has changed that mentality.

These are good days for college football in San Marcos, and have you noticed? The fans are showing up for home games. It’s certainly a new era for Texas State Football.

Don’t want to jinx him, and yes you can blame me, but wouldn’t shock me if they win ten regular season games this year.

Guess what? The Raiders also were on a bye week this week.

The best team in the Big 12, so say all the experts, and it’s hard to disagree with that at the moment.

So then here we go! BIG GAME ALERT! Or is it? Texas Tech (4-0) vs. Houston (4-0).

The Red Raiders’ undefeated mark as we start October is more legit, not much, but more legit than the Cougars. Houston’s four wins have come against SFA (FCS), Rice (meh), Colorado (not bad) and Oregon State (bad).

TTU’s have been against Ark Pine Bluff (really bad), Kent State (bad), Oregon State (bad) and Utah (really (pretty) good).

Tech’s margins of victory and their most recent win, on the road in Salt Lake over the Utes, is why ESPN has the game at roughly 75% odds leaning the way of Texas Tech.

It’s going to be an awesome scene in H-Town for this one. The Red Raiders have spent NIL cash like never before, so we’ll expect, and so will they, to leave the Bayou City with another win. Looking forward to this one.

The Bears had to survive the emotional wave the OSU Cowboys were feeling after firing longtime head coach Mike Gundy.

They did to the tune of 45-27 to move their mark to 3-2. Head Coach Dave Aranda hasn’t been fired, yet, but he’s been mentioned as one of those coaches in the “hot seat” in recent weeks.

His Bears now get the under-achieving Kansas State Wildcats in Waco before back-to-back road games at TCU and Cincinnati. That’s two of their next three on the road and a mid-season stretch that just might determine whether his head coaching seat heats up or stays cool.

The undefeated 4-0 Houston Cougars host the 4-0 Texas Tech Red Raiders in their biggest home of their season.

TCU welcomes Colorado as the Frogs look to rebound from their first loss of the season.

SMU gets back to work welcoming Syracuse who in the last two weeks pulled the stunner at Clemson and then followed that with a 38-3 loss at Duke.

Incarnate Word bounced back from their 1-3 start by handling ACU at Benson Stadium 38-7, rushing for 301 team yards.

The SFA Lumberjacks visit San Antonio next.

The Trinity Tigers are 3-0 with 94 points scored in their last two games. They welcome Southwestern to campus this week.

Looking forward to the new week! Can’t wait to see what happens!