SB Nation Dallas - Texas Vs. Wyoming: Longhorns Cruise To 37-17 Winhttps://cdn.vox-cdn.com/community_logos/48887/dallas-fave.png2012-09-02T15:17:52-05:00http://dallas.sbnation.com/rss/stream/30441792012-09-02T15:17:52-05:002012-09-02T15:17:52-05:00Top 25 Rankings Changes: Texas Longhorns Looking To Move Up
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<p>The <a class="sbn-auto-link" href="http://www.sbnation.com/ncaa-football/teams/texas-longhorns">Texas Longhorns</a> could rise in the Top 25 rankings after an impressive 37-17 win in their season opener against Wyoming. Texas running backs <a class="sbn-auto-link" href="http://www.sbnation.com/ncaa-football/players/134591/joe-bergeron">Joe Bergeron</a> and Malcolm Brown both eclipsed 100 yards on the ground in the victory. The win also marked 13 straight victories for UT in their season opener.</p>
<p>All eight Big 12 teams that played this weekend won their opening match, creating a massive tie atop the current standings after one game. Baylor and TCU both have yet to play.</p>
<p>Oklahoma is the only BIg 12 team ahead of the Longhorns in both the <a href="http://espn.go.com/college-football/rankings">AP and USA Today Top 25. </a>In their first game of the season, the Sooners topped UTEP 24-7.</p>
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https://dallas.sbnation.com/texas-longhorns/2012/9/2/3287511/college-football-rankings-2012Jer_Smith2012-09-02T10:09:04-05:002012-09-02T10:09:04-05:00Texas Vs. Wyoming: Burnt Orange Nation Reaction
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<p>In the aftermath of Texas' hard-fought 37-17 victory over Wyoming, <a href="http://www.burntorangenation.com/2012/9/1/3286396/texas-vs-wyoming-post-game-quick-hits#storyjump" target="_blank">Burnt Orange Nation showed some love for Longhorns halfback Malcolm Brown</a>:</p>
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<p>He dropped a high but catchable ball that would have converted a first down, but that was the only blemish on an otherwise stellar night from the sophomore. Brown's quick feet, excellent vision and feel, and ability to accelerate and get to the edge were on full display on Texas' first touchdown drive of the game, when Brown provided the spark that got the Longhorns offense going for the first time.</p>
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<p>BON was also impressed with the performance of quarterback David Ash:</p>
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<p>The ability to make some plays downfield is the last key ingredient still missing, but in every other regard Ash was everything Texas hoped and needed for him to be. He was efficient, mistake-free (the fumble seemed more a bad snap), and gave the Longhorns offense enough through the air to let the ground game do the rest.</p>
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<p>The Longhorns face New Mexico next Saturday at 7:00 p.m. CT, with television coverage on the Longhorn Network.</p>
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https://dallas.sbnation.com/texas-longhorns/2012/9/2/3286898/texas-vs-wyoming-fan-reactionPatrick Vint2012-09-01T23:37:09-05:002012-09-01T23:37:09-05:00Wyoming Vs. Texas 2012: Final Score And Game Recap
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<p>The No. 15 <a href="http://www.sbnation.com/ncaa-football/teams/texas-longhorns" class="sbn-auto-link">Texas Longhorns</a> beat the <a href="http://www.sbnation.com/ncaa-football/teams/wyoming-cowboys" class="sbn-auto-link">Wyoming Cowboys</a> 37-17 on Saturday night in a solid, workman-like performance against a good opening-week opponent.</p>
<p>The Longhorns vowed to commit to a balanced offensive attack in 2012 with a focus on a powerful rushing attack led by <a href="http://www.sbnation.com/ncaa-football/players/134591/joe-bergeron" class="sbn-auto-link">Joe Bergeron</a> and Malcolm Brown. After some uneven performances in the first quarter, the Longhorns rode that philosophy to a near-dominant win over the Cowboys, who brought some stiff competition to Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium.</p>
<p>The Cowboys jumped to a 9-7 lead in the first quarter before the Longhorns scored 17 unanswered points in the second, with <a href="http://www.sbnation.com/ncaa-football/players/161322/nick-jordan" class="sbn-auto-link">Nick Jordan</a> connecting on a 31-yard field goal in the final seconds of the half to give Texas a 24-9 lead at halftime.</p>
<p>After Wyoming closed the gap to 31-17 late in the third quarter and forced a turnover thanks to a mishandled snap by <a href="http://www.sbnation.com/ncaa-football/players/134590/david-ash" class="sbn-auto-link">David Ash</a>, the Longhorns defense stood tall and kept the game from ever really being in doubt in the second half.</p>
<p>Brown and Bergeron combined to rush for 215 yards on 29 carries, with Bergeron scoring twice and Brown once. Ash was masterful in his game-management role, going 20-of-27 for 156 yards and one touchdown pass, taking care to not make any costly mistakes through the air for the Longhorns.</p>
<p>Texas takes on New Mexico on Saturday, Sept. 8 at 7 p.m. CT on The Longhorn Network.</p>
<p><b></b><i>For more on Horns football, visit Texas blogs <a href="http://burntorangenation.com">Burnt Orange Nation</a> and <a href="http://barkingcarnival.com">Barking Carnival</a>, plus <a href="http://dallas.sbnation.com">SB Nation Dallas</a>. </i><i>For more on Cowboys football, visit <a href="http://cowboyaltitude.com">Wyoming blog Cowboy Altitude</a>, plus <a href="http://mwcconnection.com">MWC blog Mountain West Connection</a>. Check out SB Nation's YouTube Channel for more on NCAA football:</i></p>
https://dallas.sbnation.com/texas-longhorns/2012/9/1/3286433/texas-wyoming-2012-score-game-recapBrandon Worley2012-09-01T09:00:18-05:002012-09-01T09:00:18-05:00Wyoming Vs. Texas 2012: Game Time, TV Schedule, Spread And More
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<p>Texas and Wyoming both finished with 8-5 records in 2011, and both teams will want to improve that in 2012 as they face off against each other in the first game of the season.</p>
<p>As they did last season, Texas will ride on the two QB tandem of <a class="sbn-auto-link" href="http://www.sbnation.com/ncaa-football/players/134590/david-ash">David Ash</a> and <a class="sbn-auto-link" href="http://www.sbnation.com/ncaa-football/players/114961/case-mccoy">Case McCoy</a> as the season progresses. Ash has been named the starter for the first game but McCoy will likely feature as well. Wyoming might have the better QB situation coming into the game, with duel threat Brett Smith manning the helm for the team, but Texas have the superior defense and running game. An upset by the Cowboys at Texas Memorial Stadium is not expected.</p>
<p>The game will be seen by a lot more eyes than it was expected to after AT&T uVerse signed a deal to host the Longhorn Network, which will provide a wide expansion of coverage for the game.</p>
<p><b>Game time, TV channel:</b> 7 p.m. CT, <span style="color: #222222; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;">Longhorn Network</span></p>
<p><a href="http://www.sbnation.com/ncaa-football/odds" target="_blank"><b>Point spread</b></a><b>:</b> Texas favored by 29 points.</p>
<p><b></b><i>For more on Horns football, visit Texas blogs <a href="http://burntorangenation.com">Burnt Orange Nation</a> and <a href="http://barkingcarnival.com">Barking Carnival</a>, plus <a href="http://dallas.sbnation.com">SB Nation Dallas</a>. </i><i>For more on Cowboys football, visit <a href="http://cowboyaltitude.com">Wyoming blog Cowboy Altitude</a>, plus <a href="http://mwcconnection.com">MWC blog Mountain West Connection</a>. Check out SB Nation's YouTube Channel for more on NCAA football:</i></p>
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https://dallas.sbnation.com/texas-longhorns/2012/9/1/3282686/texas-wyoming-2012-schedule-odds-game-timeChris White2012-08-31T08:16:47-05:002012-08-31T08:16:47-05:00Longhorn Network, AT&T U Verse Reach Deal, SB Nation Reports
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<p>Texas' first game of the season against the <a href="http://www.sbnation.com/ncaa-football/teams/wyoming-cowboys" class="sbn-auto-link">Wyoming Cowboys</a> will now be more widely available for viewing, as <a href="http://www.sbnation.com/ncaa-football/2012/8/31/3282096/longhorn-network-att-uverse">AT&T uVerse has reached a deal to carry the University of Texas-based Longhorn Network</a>. Saturday's game against the Cowboys will be shown exclusively on the LHN, and coverage of the network was very spotty prior to signing the deal.</p>
<p><a style="text-decoration: underline; background-color: #ffffff;" href="http://www.barkingcarnival.com/2012/8/30/3281097/at-t-u-verse-the-longhorn-network-a-done-deal">SB Nation's own Barking Carnival</a> originally broke the news of the deal's completion, while <a style="background-color: #ffffff;" href="http://www.burntorangenation.com/2012/8/30/3281218/longhorn-network-att-uverse-deal-carry-channel">Burnt Orange Nation</a> provided more shortly afterward. The station will not only be showing Saturday's game against Wyoming but also the following game against New Mexico as well as potentially a third game later in the season.</p>
<p>AT&T's service has 6.8 million subscribers in 22 states, exponentially increasing the number of people who are available to see the network -- prior to the pairing with AT&T, it was hard to find it on TV even in Texas.</p>
<p><i>For more on the <a href="http://www.sbnation.com/ncaa-football/teams/texas-longhorns" class="sbn-auto-link">Texas Longhorns</a> and the Longhorn Network, check out <a href="http://barkingcarnival.com">Barking Carnival </a>as well as <a href="http://burntorangenation.com">Burnt Orange Nation</a>. More on NCAA football in general can be found over at <a href="http://sbnation.com/ncaa-football">SB Nation's NCAA Football hub</a> and the SB Nation YouTube Channel:</i></p>
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<p>So you're a UT alum in the Dallas area and you want to catch your school's first game of the 2012 season. Like pretty much everyone else in the country, you don't have Longhorn Network. But that's OK right? There are easily hundreds of bars and restaurants in the Metroplex where you can catch college football games.</p>
<p>However, a year after the network first launched, it's still almost impossible to find on TV's anywhere. On their Facebook page, the network put out a list of bars in the area broadcasting Texas-Wyoming.</p>
<p>Click past the jump for the<i> two </i>bars in the Metroplex that have it. Even better, neither one is located in what you would call a convenient location.</p>
<p>It's like they don't even want people to watch these games:</p>
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<p>Tequila’s Sports Bar and Grill 2300 Highland Village Rd, STE 1100 Lewisville, TX 75077</p>
<p>Fry Street Tavern 121 Avenue A Denton, TX 76201</p>
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https://dallas.sbnation.com/2012/8/30/3280370/longhorn-network-dallas-barsJonathan Tjarks2012-08-30T08:00:43-05:002012-08-30T08:00:43-05:00Texas Vs. Wyoming Preview: What The Game Means
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<p>A win wouldn't mean all that much, but the way the Longhorns perform against a weak opponent in their home opener could give us an early look at how the rest of the season will go.</p> <p>When the 2010 season began, <a class="sbn-auto-link" href="http://www.sbnation.com/ncaa-football/players/115256/mack-brown">Mack Brown's</a> team was coming off a national title game loss that had initiated the post-McCoy era 3 quarters too early and had shaken their identity to the core.</p>
<p>New QB Garrett Gilbert had nearly delivered a championship with a gritty but ultimately flawed effort and was coming back as the anointed replacement. He had finished his last 3 seasons with championship games, the first 2 as the triggerman in the wide open Lake Travis spread offense that had left a path of devastation across the Texas high school football landscape, and the latter in Texas' spread offense designed for Colt.</p>
<p>However, after being pounded in the trenches by Alabama, Mack Brown wanted to return to hard-nosed football and offensive balance and the offseason was spent discussing and attempting to implement a power running game such as Texas had featured with <a class="sbn-auto-link" href="http://www.sbnation.com/ncaa-football/players/3855/ricky-williams">Ricky Williams</a> when Mack first arrived. The first test came against the <a class="sbn-auto-link" href="http://www.sbnation.com/ncaa-football/teams/rice-owls">Rice Owls</a> in a "road game" at Reliant Stadium in front of tens of thousands of Longhorn alum, including yours truly.</p>
<p>The new offense began to hammer the ball down the field with a mix of under-center Power and Zone runs that would form the backbone of the new offensive identity. Then they reached the goal line and Rice came out of their 2-deep defensive shell and brought in their goal line defense. Four stuffed runs later and the Texas running game was DOA for the 2010 season.</p>
<p>Sometimes you can tell a lot from the first game of the year.</p>
<p>When 2010 Texas could not impose their will on a C-USA doormat playing Cover-2 it was hard to believe the new offensive identity would find much success against Oklahoma or Nebraska. The Longhorns tried to emphasize the Gilbert-led passing game as a stopgap but the switch to power football was more than a philosophical change, it was a necessity. The graduation of players like McCoy, Shipley, and <a class="sbn-auto-link" href="http://www.sbnation.com/ncaa-football/players/8515/quan-cosby">Quan Cosby</a> had left Texas without the horses to run a spread offense that would scare anyone.</p>
<p>Rice's spread-option offense and "bend don't break" defense had been a measure of basic competency. Could the Longhorns athletes deployed in a basic gameplan overwhelm an inferior foe with execution and talent? Barely.</p>
<p>This year's opening test, the <a class="sbn-auto-link" href="http://www.sbnation.com/ncaa-football/teams/wyoming-cowboys">Wyoming Cowboys</a>, offer a similar but upgraded examination of Texas' level of play. A team with a winning record in Big 12 play this year should stomp these Cowboys and send them back to Laramie in a box.</p>
<p>Wyoming is coached by Dave Christensen, who was the offensive coordinator at Missouri from 2001 to 2008 and installed the no-huddle spread led by Chase Daniel that buffeted the Big 12 North from 2005-2008 before he left for the head coaching position in Laramie. They feature an offense similar to what Texas will see this year from other "spread to run" opponents such as TCU, BU, or ISU minus some of the more athletic skill players and Big 12 quality line play.</p>
<p>Quarterback Brett Smith makes the machine go and was their leading rusher last year with 710 yards while also throwing for 2600 more with a 20-11 TD-INT ratio as a true freshman. If Wyoming is willing to risk their best player before their conference season starts against a vicious Texas defense then they can test <a class="sbn-auto-link" href="http://www.sbnation.com/ncaa-football/players/116750/manny-diaz">Manny Diaz's</a> unit with all of the diverse means of attack afforded by spread football.</p>
<p>Operating their Zone and option running game and making off-schedule plays with his feet and arm, Smith can test the discipline of a defense that lost its 1st, 2nd, and 4th leading tacklers and brings in a lot of inexperience at linebacker.</p>
<p>Part of the usual Diaz gameplan for dual-threat QB's often involves heavy usage of his Fire Zone blitzes with linebackers instructed to hesitate and lurk in passing lanes before attacking the edges in order to force the QB to stay in the pocket and find an open receiver amidst the chaos of the blitz. If he dances out of the pocket to find running room or receivers those backers are positioned to converge on him.</p>
<p>This gameplan thwarted <a class="sbn-auto-link" href="http://www.sbnation.com/ncaa-football/players/76856/denard-robinson">Denard Robinson</a> and Cam Newton while Diaz was at Miss. St., and absolutely silenced the Kansas St. offense last year with Texas. Against the less athletic and somewhat inexperienced Wyoming OL it could easily result in a shutout but Diaz may prefer to play less aggressive defense and give his younger players a chance to practice their run fits in their basic fronts and stunts.</p>
<p>Against the Texas secondary littered with future NFL players the Wyoming passing game shouldn't manage anything significant without giving Texas fans some cause for alarm.</p>
<p>The Wyoming defense has a background much like the Rice Owl unit Texas faced in 2010, which attempted to keep everything in front of them and make the Longhorns earn their way down the field, but they've changed course and hired a new coordinator with a more aggressive mentality.</p>
<p>They have a strong nose-tackle, a lot of speed at linebacker, and a veteran tandem of safeties. Overall they lack the size and athleticism to match Texas' improving run blocking and powerful runners, but they do have the schemes and speed to implement a lighter version of the pressures OU and other foes used last year to great effect. Texas fans should also be curious to see if healing center Dom Espinosa has better luck against powerful nose tackles, last year he struggled to handle powerful defenders lined up across his face due to a nagging shoulder injury.</p>
<p>After an offseason of practicing against strategies that crippled them last year, the Texas offense should be capable of punishing a lesser team for an aggressive strategy against the running game with explosive plays in the passing game.</p>
<p>Overall Wyoming presents a quality opponent that will attack with some of the same strategies the Longhorns will need to overcome against superior foes later in the year. If Texas is unable to put the game away before halftime or manage at least a 20 point margin of victory, this could be a disappointing season. Otherwise, it's one of a few simple checks before all systems go.</p>
https://dallas.sbnation.com/texas-longhorns/2012/8/30/3277767/texas-vs-wyoming-2012-preview-timeIan Boyd