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Big test for Texas today at Minute Maid Park!
No. 1 Texas has certainly lived up to the hype so far this season. Continue reading “How to watch No. 1 Texas baseball vs. No. 7 LSU at the Shriner’s Classic”
Imagine the storylines this bowl game would bring.
Imagine the storylines this bowl game would bring. Continue reading “Latest ESPN bowl projections have Texas facing off with LSU”
ESPN projects UT will get their rematch against LSU in the Texas Bowl. It will be the second year in a row the two schools face each other.
Despite not looking their greatest this season, the Texas Longhorns have pulled off three consecutive victories against Baylor, Oklahoma State, and West Virginia.
Head coach Tom Herman has been able to turn the season around after starting 0-2 in conference play.
While a Big 12 championship appearance is still not out of the question, Texas still has two difficult matchups in Iowa State and Kansas State after facing Kansas in two weeks. Because of this, ESPN’s bowl projections still do not have the Longhorns in a top tier bowl game.
Instead, ESPN projects Texas will finally get their rematch against the LSU Tigers in the Texas Bowl. The Tigers beat the Longhorns in Austin 45-38 in one of the games of the seasons in 2019. The two teams were scheduled to face each other in Sept. at LSU, but COVID-19 had other ideas.
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The Tigers have had a rough beginning to their 2020 season. Trying to replace over 20 starters from their national championship roster, the turnover has caused struggles for head coach Ed Orgeron. Joe Burrow, Justin Jefferson, and Ja’Marr Chase were all players who tore up Texas and are no longer with the program.
LSU currently sits at 2-3 with wins over Vanderbilt and South Carolina. The losses have come against Mississippi State, Missouri, and Auburn.
ESPN throws in a second projection, saying Texas will face another SEC opponent in Arkansas. Old Southwest Conference rivals, if the Longhorns and Razorbacks face each other, it would be a tune-up game for 2021’s matchup in Fayetteville.
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Texas still has an opportunity to move up into a more prestigious bowl game with wins in their final three games. As things stand, the best scenario for Texas is still a New Year’s Six bowl as Big 12 champions.
However, a more realistic scenario is the Longhorns ending up exactly where they are right now. In the Texas Bowl against a decent to below average SEC opponent.
Bowl games are all about fun matchups. Facing off against either LSU or Arkansas would provide plenty of headlines.
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Texas has a tough schedule throughout the first five weeks of the season.
Texas must face two of last season’s playoff teams within the first five weeks of the season. Continue reading “ESPN lists the most important game for Texas in 2020”
Texas vs LSU early preseason fearless prediction and game preview.
Texas vs LSU early preseason fearless prediction and game preview.
How crazy is it to try predicting a college football game months in advance when 1) there wasn’t any spring ball, 2) there aren’t any real depth charts to go off of, 3) no one has ANY clue how to get sports going again, and 4) we don’t even know what the 2020 season is going to be?
Just crazy enough to potentially get some fantastic values on the early lines.
You can bet now at BetMGM on a whole lot of college football games – including going really insane looking at lines in November – with the possibility of hitting something big.
We’ll be diving in a whole lot deeper when we do this for real just before the season – crossing fingers that there is one. But for now …
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Date: Saturday, September 12
Game Time: COMING
Venue: Tiger Stadium, Baton Rouge, LA
Network: COMING
– All of the CFN Fearless Predictions
Does LSU have anyone left from last year’s all-timer of a powerhouse?
Yeah, ha ha, very funny, but seriously, the Tigers not only had 14 players drafted by the NFL, but they gave up one player for every single position other than kicker and punter.
That doesn’t even count the free agent acquisitions.
Of course this is still a very good, very talented team with a whole lot of athleticism and next-level skill, and there’s a warm-up against UTSA to get some parts of this whole thing going, but there’s still going to be a whole lot of work to do. Just three starters are back on offense, five starters are back on D, and this is a good Texas team rolling on into town.
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Is the new LSU starting quarterback – likely Myles Brennan – going to be Joe Burrow? Nah, but he’s still going to be be terrific with Ja’Marr Chase and Terrace Marshall to throw to.
Justin Jefferson was the star who killed the Longhorns last year with three touchdowns, but he’s off being a Minnesota Viking. Chase and Marshall combined for 14 catches for 270 yards and a score against a mediocre Longhorn secondary that loses its top guy, safety Brandon Jones.
No, this might not be the 2019 LSU team, but it’s still going to be special.
Texas gave LSU its biggest push of last year in a 45-38 loss. Sam Ehlinger threw for 401 yards and four scores – and ran for a touchdown – and it took a brilliant game by Joe Burrow and 22 points to pull it off.
This year’s Texas team is better, and this year’s LSU team is going to be – worse is sort of the wrong word – rebuilding.
Both teams will have a major attitude with something big to prove. At home, LSU pulls out another thriller between these two.
LSU 37, Texas 34
Bet on this game now at BetMGM
LSU -5
Money Line: LSU -189, Texas +155
ATS Preseason Confidence out of 5: 1
CFN Podcast
Will there be a season? HOW?
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5: The Last Dance: Unedited version with all the swearing
1: The Last Dance: Edited version with all the beeps
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